What brand of vice is this?

rmcgorman · Jul 8, 2020

Hi. New forum member. I'd swear I saw a group for identifying equipment but can't find it now, so I posted here. I hope that's OK.

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This vice is coming up at an auction in my area. It's a bigger vice than I currently have so I'm considering an upgrade. Is this a reputable brand? Any idea what a fair price would be.

Thanks.

Richard

DDoug · Jul 8, 2020

Looks like one I saw at tractor supply the other day.
Larin 6 in. Heavy-duty Bench Vise at Tractor Supply Co.
Don't go over $30.

I suggest you move this conversation over to shopfloortalk.com

It should be more to your liking.

Bluejeep · Jul 8, 2020

It looks exactly like my 1979 Duracraft vise. Made in Taiwan.

metalmagpie · Jul 8, 2020

The key is the number '6'. When you see a number in that font in that position you know you are looking at an import.

I wouldn't buy that vise. Not unless you got change from a twenty..

metalmagpie

ChipSplitter · Jul 8, 2020

That looks like the one on my walleye boat..... :rolleyes5:

And it's not above board either.

Bill D · Jul 8, 2020

If they did not trouble to cast their name into the tool you know they did not want to be embarrassed by it later. Rubber washer under handle and cylindrical handle ends tell me it is newish. I agree 1970's or newer.
The screw diameter looks smaller then it should be which is a common design flaw of cheap Asian vises. The screw is at least covered so chips stay off. I bet it is cast iron, not cast steel.
Bil lD

rmcgorman · Jul 10, 2020

Thanks for the replies. I heeded your advice. It ended up going for over $50.

EPAIII · Jul 11, 2020

The reason why they did not cast the name on it is so that they could box it box it with different names on the cardboard so it could be sold to many different importers who then call it their own.

Bill D said:
If they did not trouble to cast their name into the tool you know they did not want to be embarrassed by it later. Rubber washer under handle and cylindrical handle ends tell me it is newish. I agree 1970's or newer.
The screw diameter looks smaller then it should be which is a common design flaw of cheap Asian vises. The screw is at least covered so chips stay off. I bet it is cast iron, not cast steel.
Bil lD

Cole2534 · Jul 11, 2020

Hookers and cocaine = vice
Chick and Kurt = vise

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crrmeyer · Jul 11, 2020

Cole2534 said:
Hookers and cocaine = vice
Chick and Kurt = vise

Not the way the British spell it - they call it a bench vice. My spouse would argue machinery and tools ARE in the same category as hookers and blow, but the later is probably cheaper and takes up less space

Cole2534 · Jul 11, 2020

crrmeyer said:
Not the way the British spell it - they call it a bench vice. My spouse would argue machinery and tools ARE in the same category as hookers and blow, but the later is probably cheaper and takes up less space

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I don't care how the Brits spell a damn thing.

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Rob L · Jul 11, 2020

Cole2534 said:
I don't care how the Brits spell a damn thing.

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That's ok, we understand that not everyone who has adopted the English language is able to determine which meaning is being used from context when a single spelling has multiple definitions ;P

PackardV8 · Jul 11, 2020

Rob L said:
That's ok, we understand that not everyone who has adopted the English language is able to determine which meaning is being used from context when a single spelling has multiple definitions ;P

You're too kind, sir. Many in the UK would say we in the US speak patois

jack vines

Bill D · Jul 11, 2020

EPAIII said:
The reason why they did not cast the name on it is so that they could box it box it with different names on the cardboard so it could be sold to many different importers who then call it their own.

I see that at Horrible fright. The tools are in a plain brown corrugated box with cheap black printing. This is slipped inside a full color printed cardboard box with a brand name on the outside. I wonder if there are factories in China that just put new boxes on wholesale brown tool boxes.
In Oakland kids used to wholesale three wrapped bricks to adults who put them into VCR boxes and sold them from the trunk of their cars. The bricks were just the correct size and weight
Bill D

WizardOfBoz · Jul 12, 2020

ChipSplitter said:
That looks like the one on my walleye boat.....

And it's not above board either.

Mmmmmm. Walleye.... Yum.

gregormarwick · Jul 12, 2020

Cole2534 said:
Hookers and cocaine = vice
Chick and Kurt = vise

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You can't leverage enough brain cells to recognise where the OP is from?

boslab · Jul 12, 2020

Same 6 on my Harrison lathe, says 600 group on the tab, possible?
Mark

Bill D · Jul 12, 2020

boslab said:
Same 6 on my Harrison lathe, says 600 group on the tab, possible?
Mark

The USA supreme court will not look at papers written in Sans serif fonts like times new roman. The california and Texas courts have the same rule.
Bill D

Newman109 · Jul 12, 2020

Cole2534 said:
Hookers and cocaine = vice
Chick and Kurt = vise

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I've got a Kurt on my mill. It's not my only vice, ahh, err, sorry I mean to say vise......

:rolleyes5:

What brand of vice is this?

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Diamond

Diamond

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Diamond

Diamond

Diamond

Titanium

Diamond

Diamond

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