bugbear
Established Member
I'm sure many car boot hounds have seen one of these, lying in a "mixed" box of tools.
It's not clear how useful they are. Indeed, I bought one (it was only a quid), took it home, fixed it on my bench next to my Record #52, and tried to work out ... what on earth it was for. Useless!
Enlightening eventually came from old Stanley adverts for an earlier model.
Here's the great grand uncles of the 702:
in particular the usage diagrams:
Completely unlike any other vise I'm aware of, but quite handy looking.
Sadly, many people seem to have forgotten this, since Stanley later bought out the larger,
stronger 5702:
This has nice conventional guide rails, which make it quite impossible to use the 5702 in the "beam held on the bench top" mode.
It looks like Lee Valley have been reading old catalogues though...
http://www.leevalley.com/en/wood/page.a ... 9,41665&ap
BugBear
It's not clear how useful they are. Indeed, I bought one (it was only a quid), took it home, fixed it on my bench next to my Record #52, and tried to work out ... what on earth it was for. Useless!
Enlightening eventually came from old Stanley adverts for an earlier model.
Here's the great grand uncles of the 702:
in particular the usage diagrams:
Completely unlike any other vise I'm aware of, but quite handy looking.
Sadly, many people seem to have forgotten this, since Stanley later bought out the larger,
stronger 5702:
This has nice conventional guide rails, which make it quite impossible to use the 5702 in the "beam held on the bench top" mode.
It looks like Lee Valley have been reading old catalogues though...
http://www.leevalley.com/en/wood/page.a ... 9,41665&ap
BugBear
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