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Saw this on Facebook today. Needs to be on my workbench.

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4M views · 188K reactions | The ultimate bench vise?! An Emmett Universal vise has been on my wish list for years! These are such versatile and useful tools, and it’s a shame there’s nothing like it you can still buy today. What happened between 1905

The ultimate bench vise?! An Emmett Universal vise has been on my wish list for years! These are such versatile and useful tools, and it’s a shame there’s nothing like it you can still buy today....
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That is super cool!

Colour me a bit skeptical though. The thing I hate most about my big vise is how it turns, swivels, and moves when I torque on a part in the Jaws. I often wish it had no ability to do anything other than clamp. I can only imagine how pissed I'd be if it had that many available orientations that didn't lock well enough.

I noted with interest that he had some difficulty locking a few of them. What we cannot see is how good they are at locking when a torque is applied to the work.
 
The one that got away...

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Thread 'Adjustable vise'

I happened to spot this in an auction listing a few days ago:

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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...
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Susquatch said:
In my house, you would live about 10 seconds after putting it into position. She is small, but she knows how to deliver the most painful death imaginable.
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Understandable.

This year, as with years past, my wife spent a small fortune on outdoor flowers and accessories. And, as with years past, I didn't say a thing. Even though, I am pretty sure, once in full bloom I can't eat them or use them to pay for things.

So I'd put that damn vise on my wife's side of the bed if I want.;)
 
Elektrishun said:
In all seriousness, there is something about old tools, farm machinery, vehicles and such with the fancy ornate embellishments, stamping, etc. that I find very appealing.
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Just the other day i convinced my brother that his wife needed some yard art. He left with the old cast iron legs of a cream separator that i remember blowing up. There was milk every where. :) :)
 
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Just the other day i convinced my brother that his wife needed some yard art. He left with the old cast iron legs of a cream separator that i remember blowing up. There was milk every where. :) :)
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My wife and I went to a local store that sells "garden art", furniture, greenhouses, etc. to find a trellis for a vine.

She found one she liked for $1200.00.

We went home with one for a fraction of that price.
 
Susquatch said:
I wonder how many here actually used a cream separator or a butter churn or an ice cream maker.......
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Friend of the family from Trinidad and Tobago has had us over for supper and occasionally made Mango ice cream for dessert with a hand crank ice cream maker. Very good!

But I have not used one myself.
 
Susquatch said:
I wonder how many here actually used a cream separator or a butter churn or an ice cream maker.......
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Cream separator? Yep. Had anywhere from 2-4 Holstein milk cows & it was my responsibility to get them milked (by hand) every day as a teenager, hung over or not. Had forearms like steel. Used to feed the barn cats by squirting milk into their mouths. Carried the whole milk from the barn to the house in pails, separate it in the basement & then carry the skim milk back to the barn to feed the hogs w/ their chop (ground barley). We'd ship the cream weekly. When I left the farm my folks decided that a milking machine was in order. Figgers...

Butter churn was more a novelty than anything, but we had two. A big cylindrical galvanized metal model about 18" in diameter & 8" wide w/ wooden bats attached to an exterior handle that spun in a central bushing. Also had a smaller model, maybe a half gallon glass jar, w/ gearing on top that churned the whole milk. I still remember the containers of orange dye to give the butter some colour.

Never had an ice cream maker tho.
 
JustaDB said:
Cream separator? Yep. Had anywhere from 2-4 Holstein milk cows & it was my responsibility to get them milked (by hand) every day as a teenager, hung over or not. Had forearms like steel. Used to feed the barn cats by squirting milk into their mouths. Carried the whole milk from the barn to the house in pails, separate it in the basement & then carry the skim milk back to the barn to feed the hogs w/ their chop (ground barley). We'd ship the cream weekly. When I left the farm my folks decided that a milking machine was in order. Figgers...

Butter churn was more a novelty than anything, but we had two. A big cylindrical galvanized metal model about 18" in diameter & 8" wide w/ wooden bats attached to an exterior handle that spun in a central bushing. Also had a smaller model, maybe a half gallon glass jar, w/ gearing on top that churned the whole milk. I still remember the containers of orange dye to give the butter some colour.

Never had an ice cream maker tho.
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Ha I was thinking of you when @Susquatch posed the question. I faintly remember going with my parents to your parents place to buy cream. Seems to me there were not alot of places to buy cream other than the grocery store by that time in our area.
 
So, bottom line seems to be that only a very few of us actually milked by hand.

I milked by hand, got regularly kicked or spilled the pail, and often got crapped on too.

I also cranked the cream separator, and fed the skim back to the calves. We didn't sell milk, just cream and butter.

And yes, I churned the cream to make butter. We didn't use yellow dye though.

Every once is a blue moon I got to make ice-cream too!

Those were very good times.
 
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