jim rozen
Diamond
- Joined
- Feb 26, 2004
- Location
- peekskill, NY
Mine's a smaller vise, thread is 1/2-13 V-thread.
I mic-ed several spots on the screw and was consistently getting ~0.69-ish, which translates to about 17.5 mm according to the quick calculator on google. I say "old" palmgren vise because it's been fairly well beat to death but I'm not sure how old it really is. The bolts holding the jaws in were also in metric as well as the set screw holding the acme thread to the moving jaw.
Unless it is an OLD Palmgren vise it is probably not worth your time to fix it.
Sounds like scrap metal to me. Palmgren used to make pretty good stuff in the USA back in the 1960's. An old USA vise would be better than repaired junk. For that matter, new junk would be better than repaired junk.
Larry
What I would do, if I were you (sorry for the rhyming) - grab the closest fitting SAE ACME size threaded rod and if it fits too snug, buy some valve grinding compound from NAPA, coat the threaded rod and run the rod through the nut a few times in a big wrench. Wash it all off with brakleen when done.Yeah I figured it was none too nice of a vise. But thankfully I only paid $40 for it. I think it's plenty functional if you don't need precision (and if I can get the screw fixed) but otherwise it didn't exactly look too high quality. I'll probably end up selling it anyways since it won't actually fit on my drill press table lol. I bought it thinking it was smaller than it was.
Notice
This website or its third-party tools process personal data (e.g. browsing data or IP addresses) and use cookies or other identifiers, which are necessary for its functioning and required to achieve the purposes illustrated in the cookie policy. To learn more, please refer to the cookie policy. In case of sale of your personal information, you may opt out by sending us an email via our Contact Us page. To find out more about the categories of personal information collected and the purposes for which such information will be used, please refer to our privacy policy. You accept the use of cookies or other identifiers by closing or dismissing this notice, by scrolling this page, by clicking a link or button or by continuing to browse otherwise.