trlvn
Ultra Member
I happened to spot this in an auction listing a few days ago:
There was no description other than 'adjustable vise'. There were two other pictures but they didn't show a maker's name or model number.
Anybody else recognize it?
It is an Emmert Universal Machinist Vise. Keith Rucker did a series of Youtube videos on restoring his a few months back. It has regular (hard) vise jaws, soft jaws and the 2 round stubs or pegs. It can hold old shaped items with the stubs but Emmert also used to offer a couple of kinds of pivoting jaws that would sit on the pegs. Those would allow it hold tapered or non-parallel parts. Easy enough to make your own such removable jaws. In addition, the vise will tilt and rotate to pretty much any orientation you can dream up!
These aren't very common and I thought maybe I could get it for a reasonable price when the auction closed tonight. The high bid stood at $18 yesterday. Tonight with 5 minutes to go, the high bid was $110. I bid $200 but was already outbid. In the next four minutes, it zoomed to $390. With buyers premium and HST, that is $485 out the door! (Was it one of you?)
Oh well. It would have been pretty big for the corner of my work bench. Yeah, too big. That's right, too big.
<sniff>
Craig
There was no description other than 'adjustable vise'. There were two other pictures but they didn't show a maker's name or model number.
Anybody else recognize it?
It is an Emmert Universal Machinist Vise. Keith Rucker did a series of Youtube videos on restoring his a few months back. It has regular (hard) vise jaws, soft jaws and the 2 round stubs or pegs. It can hold old shaped items with the stubs but Emmert also used to offer a couple of kinds of pivoting jaws that would sit on the pegs. Those would allow it hold tapered or non-parallel parts. Easy enough to make your own such removable jaws. In addition, the vise will tilt and rotate to pretty much any orientation you can dream up!
These aren't very common and I thought maybe I could get it for a reasonable price when the auction closed tonight. The high bid stood at $18 yesterday. Tonight with 5 minutes to go, the high bid was $110. I bid $200 but was already outbid. In the next four minutes, it zoomed to $390. With buyers premium and HST, that is $485 out the door! (Was it one of you?)
Oh well. It would have been pretty big for the corner of my work bench. Yeah, too big. That's right, too big.
<sniff>
Craig
