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I have not really looked at many of the engineer vices but the pics I have seen all have the spring near the trigger, as per the original patent (e.g below). There is a listing for an early Record woodworkers' vice on ebay at the moment with some pics of the underside (reproduced below). My...

lovely stuff Claus - I am particularly envious of the 1005. You do need to put a handle on your 1003 though!

well since you ask, here is my first flattening update. I really had no excuses since over the past couple of years I have bought and refurbished a number of planes including a no5 and no 7 which ought to be a good combination for this type of job and I made sure the irons were very sharp...

glued and nailed - not a complicated job, but I rehearsed it just in case. What could go wrong I hear you ask? Well, nothing major but my nails were slightly too long and poked out the other side of the legs. I suppose only I will know (and whoever reads this thread) but they lurk there...

this post reminded me that I have a 130A that I mislaid so long ago I had forgotten all about it. I have just found it in the understairs cupboard, so thanks for that! PS I also have a yankee 1003 bench drill which is far harder to mislay. North Bros were a brilliant factory - did the produce...

quite possibly, although you might have to eat your words in 100 years time when it is still in one piece :). The benefit in my case is that I am learning the basics so the more opportunities to practice on something real, the better. For instance, I have done enough housings now to get my...

thanks Custard! Not very interesting, but I cut the housings for the braces - I also made the housing for the unnecessary leg brace deeper so it fits properly. Next step is to glue and nail it all together. erk! I have been giving some thought to fitting the vice - although apparently not...

back to the bench at the weekend - I was feeling a bit under the weather and made more gaffs than really necessary, but the end result is at least starting to look like a bench. I am glad I did the wedges - it has added an hour or so (most of which was spent making the wedges - a top tip is to...

I have added a couple of pics below which will hopefully make it clearer. Here is a (relatively!) recent Parkinson vice - you can see there is flat coiled spring on the inside of the front jaw - this spring pushes on the flat bar which in turn pushes up on the half nut, pressing it to the...

I have become obsessed with finding out more about the Parky pattern vices, in particular I would like to find out about the change in spring design. Possibly I have too much time on my hands at the moment! There is a HUGE thread on vices on the garage journal forum -...

thanks Andy , I must have missed that at the time. Hats off to bugbear for rather more thorough detective work than I managed!

thanks gwr - I was trying to see if it is possible to date Parkinson's vices but I suspect it will be very hard to tie down to a very narrow date range. Here is what I found out: We know the Parkinson perfect instantaneous grip was made from 1895 onwards, the earliest picture I can find of...

in case it is useful, having experimented with a number of abrasives when flattening soles I found these rolls to be a good balance between cost and the amount of time you can use them before they clog/wear out/rip. https://www.workshopheaven.com/material ... rolls.html If you have access to...

following the slightly disappointing denouement to my Toles investigation, I thought I'd mention one other US vice I came across while researching. It is made by Richards Wilcox, Illinois, and is interesting because it has an elegant gravity fed quick release and is clearly an extremely well...

I am pretty sure that 774 is in fact a rebadged Toles, apart from the use of their marketing phrase of 'rapid action' there are lots of visual similarities, not least the nuts used to attach the steel rods. I glanced at the one in 772 and assumed it was a Entwistle and Keynon, but there is a...

so they did! - you can see it on the bottom of p165 of the 1905 catalogue: https://archive.org/stream/MelhuishCata ... 7/mode/2up twice the price of the parky :shock:

there is a second patent (1896) for the Toles vice and it shows a slightly modified design of the half nut (that matches the picture of the dismantled vice above) and this patent has a clearer explanation that made me look again at the photo of the parts laid out. If you look closely you will...

yes it makes you wonder how many were lost due to breakages - in comparison it is hard to imagine breaking any part of the Record unless you were really making an effort!

a quick detour into US made vices. Having mentioned the Toles QR vise I thought I take a look at how it worked. The advantage of this quick-release mechanism is that it allows you to rapidly adjust the position of the jaws and then grip the work-piece without changing the position of your hand...

I'd be very interested to see some pics of your vice, if you have any... it turns out that Steel Nut & J. Hampton ltd (Woden) filed a patent in 1906 that aimed to resolve potential issues with the cast sliders (they suggested adding rollers to reduce wear and friction). I doubt it ever got...