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Machinist's vise vs Mechanics' Vise ?
- Thread starter MLK WERKS
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wilbilt
Hot Rolled
- Joined
- Feb 20, 2005
- Location
- Honcut, Ca. USA
Mechanics' vises are built to be beat upon relentlessly by gorillas.
Machinists' vises are built to hold more precision while being used in a production environment.
My observations after 20 years working with gorillas...
Machinists' vises are built to hold more precision while being used in a production environment.
My observations after 20 years working with gorillas...
agrip
Cast Iron
- Joined
- Aug 17, 2005
- Location
- Atlanta Georgia USA
IIRC One has a rotating base, the other doesn't.
Ag
Ag
Years ago I saw an unusual vice at a tire shop by the junk yard.
It was designed much like a lathe compound, having adjustable gibs instead of the usual loose fitting ram. It had a smooth blue/grey finish, much like a nice Hardinge machine.
I went back some time later willing to trade a new import vice for it - but it was gone, replaced with another new import. The gorrillas had hammered the unusual vice into oblivion. I presume this was a fine machinist vice. I have not seen another like it.
It was designed much like a lathe compound, having adjustable gibs instead of the usual loose fitting ram. It had a smooth blue/grey finish, much like a nice Hardinge machine.
I went back some time later willing to trade a new import vice for it - but it was gone, replaced with another new import. The gorrillas had hammered the unusual vice into oblivion. I presume this was a fine machinist vice. I have not seen another like it.
