Woden vices are comparable with Record. That’s a nice one in that the jaws are bolted from the outside rather than screwed from the inside. Looks in great condition too. Keep them coming.
Got a big blue bench vice at home I inherited from my grandpa. Pretty sure it’s a Record, I’ll check when I get home. Sadly neither my brother nor I had the space for the rest of the workshop. Pillar drills, miiling machines, floor standing bandsaw, Myford Super 7, wood lathe, and loads of bits and pieces. I’ll see if I can find some pics.
A Woden vice approx 3″, one whole turn of backlash before the jaws reverse direction, and a chunk of metal missing from the slidy bit which doesn’t appear to affect it. £20, think I’ll get it.
A Record 6, scared to lift it off the shelf incase the bookcase falls over, about 10 turns of backLash! £25, too big for me but repairable?
Missing chunk. The screw appears to be off centre, reckon something has been clamped off centre and its twisted enough that the screw has busted the side. Opens and closes OK… Am I about to buy something on its last legs?!
fkinnell im down with the cool kidz too..just looked at the one that has been just a vice until now but its a Record No 1 i knew my day of wrekoning would come eventually.. 😛
Hmmmmm, I think the 6 will take up too much space on my bench! I didn’t reallytry it due to all the other stuff on the shelf around it, but I opened it a few turns then pulled the slider open and it seemed to move nicely.
My sisters boyfriend gave me a near mint Record No3 last weekend as his work had shut a branch down and was chucking a load of them out , piccy to follow.
Shame I have nowhere to fix it to at the moment as the shed is full of bikes 😳
cheers for the link trail rat, vice stripped, cleaned and re greased. just got to get a new split pin for the spring washer and we are good to go. didn’t bother with painting it tho, kind of like the rough look. might have some new jaws tho…
Just had to put these pics on, this thread got me looking seriously at the vice my late, much missed, father in law left me. It says W P No.3 on one side and Anvil Made in England on the other but looks for all the world like a Record. Bit of a mistery, but a cracking vice all the same. He used to work at AE Turbines, so it could have been “aquired” from there, I never thought to ask as I didn’t realise there was such a thing as vice pron. I always thought pron was a vice. IGMC.
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Stavromuller,
You might have another war effort model on your hands.
My Paramo came about after the luftwaffe bombed the Record factory, and Paramo where instructed to make Record pattern vices.
You might have another war hero there.
This is one of the best threads on STW in ages :-). I never had vice lust before – I do now. Spending a lot of time on eBay looking for a new (old) vice for the new workbench in my currently being built garage.