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yes - my first thoughts were something like that - but then the 'rear' jaw is the moving jaw - OK, but very awkward with the protuberances and then 'bracket' couldn't attach or the opening would be fixed. Maybe it's either/or in use??

I think I see what you mean - the actual bolts inserted are not long enough to go through a thick bench top, but poss., however, would you then need the 'jaws' at all?

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Not uploaded pic to this forum yet have downsized, so hope this comes through. Acquired this from family of a true craftsman who had two large workshops at home - there were two of these, so just possibly used as a pair? He sadly now has dementia and cannot tell us. The bolts and plain bracket...

Anyone tried this? - good small saw files for fine teeth being scarce/expensive, I used a triangular ("three-square") file, but just 'tickled' the edges with a stone - enough to round off but still cut a little - seemed to work OK and I found old/good triang files quite cheaply.

Thanks for that, Tony, I was in the HIP business (left 10+ yrs ago) - HIP has many applications, and I was mostly involved with its application to casting such as medical implants in CoCr and turbine blades in Ni superalloys, not actually making the HIP PM 'steels'. But D W did correct me on...

Thanks - looks like you've done a lot of work, and thorough. I was once in the business, but for home workshop hand tools I have only ever used old Sheffield steel stamped by makers such as Wards and Marples. (having said that, I bought a couple of v cheap Chinese socket chisels in the late...

Thanks for the info, DW -- do you have the analysis of Lee valley V11? As Crucible Steel uses the series CPM 15V etc and some of their competitors have used the reverse V10 etc (and been challenged by Crucible) - I had always thought it a strange choice but assumed we were talking of a high...

Regarding V11 and other hot isostatically pressed powder metal steels:- these are not (as you may well know) simply sintered PM (as, for example, many car engine components), but made into billets from large capsules of carefully blended fine powder steels, often of the HSS type, but also other...

Most impressive -a collector's piece or a great workshop user -- must weigh a bit. A great engineering/metalworking vice. Neither did I know K&E made such, but why not - Parkinson's (then Woden, Record and others) used their different quick release for a huge range of vice types. danny

If the vice in question for in this thread is a different E&K we (well I at least) would be interested to see a picture. I find the vice history very interesting (why no dedicated steel/iron woodworking vices before that point and suddenly a rush of invention including several types of quick...

I believe they are also interchangeable with the chuck on the very smallest home/diy version of the handyman drill/screwdriver with transparent handle holding spare bits and driver tips. There are also scarce adapters so you can use these bits in one of the larger yankee drivers. For a while...

Go for it -- fit and use this excellent vice - I doubt you'll wear it out. I have two Parkinson's Perfects (the predecessor to the Record) first version - fitted and working well - only thing needing replacing was a small spring which I sourced from a broken (dropped on the floor when being...

great - and a great museum I'm not so keen on the pieces with 'harp-strings' or too much white paint, but some of Hepworth's purely abstract wood shapes are some of my favourite wooden constructs (only with a Parky's Perfect, eh?) Danny

Alert - anyone there live near Colchester? there's an Entwhistle and Kenyon for sale on eB at a good price - collection only I'm only telling you so I don't have to drive across the country to get it on the other hand I should really visit my aunt there to self --- no stop stop - you...

absolutely fine by me - your blog is VG danny

I think Stanley did make a drill just like this, with enclosed gears. I bought a Poland drill new and very cheap from a UK market stall about 1980 - worked fine but didn't really need it - I think it's simply made in Poland before the walls came down, at a time when the Soviet bloc was selling...

and pic 3 has the two together - no loose nut (unless all is completely disassembled) to get lost over the century and a half (nearly) let me know if it's not clear -I'm not going to take it all to pieces until needed, but I have a couple of other pix. hope this adds to the knowledge danny

that was the rack - here's pic two the moving jaw assy