Vintage vice

[JimCoronette]

Just picked up a Wilton Shop King 3 1/2" vice.

I still need/want a ginormous vice, but I love the style of this model.

 

[66383]

Nice score Jim!

 

[super-bee_ski]

Yup, cool find Jim!
I have a Huge old Wilton, a couple of others also...love the old stuff
And amazing how abused they were back in the day.

 

[T2R9]

Nice!

 

[CudaChick1968]

If you want to learn more about it, there are Vise Gurus all over The Garage Journal forums. Several threads are devoted to history and restorations. I found out a lot about my old Parker. No such thing as having too many vises!!

 

[JimCoronette]

If you want to learn more about it, there are Vise Gurus all over The Garage Journal forums. Several threads are devoted to history and restorations. I found out a lot about my old Parker. No such thing as having too many vises!!

A lot of my searches ended up there. I have to look through everything on that forum.

I'm looking for date code info right now to see how old it it.

I took it apart today and cleaned and lubed it up. It came out very nice.

I just want one more huge one for working on control arms.

I have my eye on a few.

 

[DeltaV]

Vintage vice...

 

[DeltaV]

At what age is a tool or machine considered "vintage"? TIA

 

[JimCoronette]

Vintage vice...
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Haha. I just realized I misspelled it not once, not twice, but 3 times.
Even spell check can not help me!