Well, it wasn’t really broken but, let’s say “underutilized”. Was home visiting my folks for several weeks, helping them with house projects.
This little beauty was in our second house growing up.
My dad converted a creepy coal room in the basement to a creepy, narrow workshop and this vise is from my earliest memories helping Dad on projects, pretending to build stuff,,,
He took it with us when we moved to the sticks and it’s been used as a doorstop since the early 70s since Dad prefers his old Craftsman 4” on his workbench. Since I busted my a$$ for three weeks cleaning gutters, building storage shelves in the basement, hanging several new ceiling fans and cleaning out the garage in mid 90s temps and typical Illinois humidity, I asked him if I could have it. A deal was arranged
and I shipped it home.
Arrived yesterday so, today I tore it down, cleaned up the moving bits, re-greased and mounted it on my bench (first time in 55 years). It’s a 10/1946 built and in pretty good mechanical condition! Smooth as butter. It’s a 3” and goes nicely with my 70s 4” Wilton that’s mounted at the other end of my bench.
