Vice screws, bench dogs and hold downs

[Scrit]

Does anyone have a source of continental-pattern front and end vice screws other than Axminster? Wasn't there a German tool supplier (retailer)? Also can anyone recommend a supplier of bench dogs - traditional rectangular ones rather than the round ones? Finally did Irwin continue to make the Record bench hold downs or is the Veritas one the only game in town, now? I can't find any referemnce to these being made any more, worse luck. I need to build a couple of new benches and I'd like to see what's available before starting, therefore all relevant suggestions gratefully received.

Scrit

 

[jasonB]

Tilgear Do square metal dogs with springs and they also do a Marples holdfast like the record/irwin one with the metal plate you sink into the bench.

Rutlands also do square dogs.

Is this the Germansource?

Jason

 

[Scott]

Dieter Schid does all that type of stuff. Vice hardware that's used on Ulmia benches etc

 

[Scrit]

Thank you gents, Dieter Schmid was indeed the supplier of th ebetter quality vice screw. Also, thanks forthe heads up on the Marples holdfasts still being available, Jason. I thought that they had disappeared completely.

Scrit

 

[Alf]

Axminster have a Marples-a-like that's appeared in their new products section, fwiw.

Cheers, Alf

 

[engineer one]

scrit what about using cut down old record quick type clamps once the
retaining bolt on the fixed has broken like mine, seems a shame to
throw them away if they can be modifed like niki did things.

paul :wink:

 

[Scrit]

Thanks for the heads up, Alf! They APTC ones are certainly a heck of a lot cheaper than the Record/Marples/Irwin variety (circa £40) - cheap enough to make it worth buying a couple to see if they're compatible. I wanted to keep with the same holdfasts as I already have several Record ones in use, notwithstanding their propensity to crush the bejaysus out of even the hardest timbers unless used with a delicate touch. :evil:

Paul

Nice idea, but I've got a compatibility issue (with two benches and another two one the way.......)

Scrit

 

[engineer one]

hey scrit was only interested in recycling

or am i really cheap about certain things, you know you hate
to throw old or broken tools or bits thereof away

blimey i'll be sounding like alf soon :twisted:

how about extra hold downs? :lol:
paul :wink:

 

[Scrit]

JHow about extra hold downs? :lol:
paul :wink:

Yes, but compatibility........

Know what you mean about counting the pennies, though. Wait till you see my next rip/table saw! :wink:

Scrit

 

[engineer one]

scrit,
compatability, this is a new word for woodworkers is it not??? :lol:

if its on the table, and its free then surely it is compatible? :twisted:

paul :wink:

 

[Alf]

cheap enough to make it worth buying a couple to see if they're compatible.

Ooo, could you report back on whether they are? I've got an ancient old Marples one somewhere, sans collar...

Cheers, Alf