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Thread: Bench vice?
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3rd February 2007, 09:13 PM #1
Bench vice?
Timbercon have Torquata bench vices for $60, any opinions re quality and durability?
http://www.timbecon.com.au/products/...ies-328_0.aspx
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3rd February 2007, 10:37 PM #2
Cheap Chinese crap (I mean that in the nicest way). About twice what I used to see it for sale in Canada. I had one that would move about 2 to 3mm in it's adjustment. If accuracy isn't critical then she'll be right
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3rd February 2007, 11:13 PM #3
I have a quick release Record knock off that I bought from Timebecon 5 years ago.
It's o.k. I guess but it is prone to serious wracking. I don't think I'd buy another one. Of course I should mention that it was a third the price of a Record at the time.
Perhaps they've picked their game up since then anyway.
Nowadays I'd just lay out the dough for the real deal. A good vice is pretty fundamental to a good bench I reckon.
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4th February 2007, 12:20 AM #4.
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Jon, I have both the little one and the big one on my bench. They do have some untensioned positional slop (the little one more than the big one) in them but the ones I saw at TC were no sloppier that the more expensive Veritas vices and most vices have this slop to some extent anway. If loose slop worries you, you install them on the tight side. What's important is they don't slop when they are tightened up and setting the vice faces up so that the tops of the faces and any longer sides of the faces touch first. If you look further down in that thread I referred to above you can see a close up of how I faced the big vice with uneven length jaws. The longest touches first. I have since added leather faces and I really like the way the big surface area gently hold things in pace without over crushing what's inside the jaws.
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