My bench vise slips
10-01-20, 02:03 PM
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My bench vise slips
This is kind of bike related but I'm hoping for some suggestions. I inherited by Grandpa's workbench and vice and need some help. The vise is very useful for lots of stuff but these days it won't stop rotating. When I turn the lever on the side to lock it, it just slips. Is there something I can put in there to make it stop. Thanks for any suggestions.
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On the vices I have it's not a lever in the sense that you only move it from a locked to unlocked position. It's always been a bolt with a handle on the end of the bolt that you might have to shove the handle to the other side of the bolt to be able to continue to tighten the bolt.
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Originally Posted by Iride01
On the vices I have it's not a lever in the sense that you only move it from a locked to unlocked position. It's always been a bolt with a handle on the end of the bolt that you might have to shove the handle to the other side of the bolt to be able to continue to tighten the bolt.
Easier to do than explain.
Easier to do than explain.
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What vise do you have? Hopefully if it was your grandfather's, it is an old American brand like Reed, Prentiss, Columbian, or Wilton.
garagejournal will likely have more information than you would ever need.
garagejournal will likely have more information than you would ever need.
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Are the jaws of the vise just not tighting up? If that is the case, it is possible that the nut or the screw is stripped. It does happen. I got a good Milwaukee vise with just this problem. It cost me some. I had to buy a new screw and nut. I had a good sturdy vise back in service for over 20 years now.
If that is not the problem try to restate it so we can help.
If that is not the problem try to restate it so we can help.
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You can try a washer under the lever but likely you have bigger issues like needing a new bolt/lever like this.
https://www.ereplacementparts.com/lo...hoCyoQQAvD_BwE
https://www.ereplacementparts.com/lo...hoCyoQQAvD_BwE
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Originally Posted by aggiegrads
What vise do you have? Hopefully if it was your grandfather's, it is an old American brand like Reed, Prentiss, Columbian, or Wilton.
garagejournal will likely have more information than you would ever need.
garagejournal will likely have more information than you would ever need.
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10-03-20, 09:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Joe Bikerider
This is kind of bike related but I'm hoping for some suggestions. I inherited by Grandpa's workbench and vice and need some help. The vise is very useful for lots of stuff but these days it won't stop rotating. When I turn the lever on the side to lock it, it just slips. Is there something I can put in there to make it stop. Thanks for any suggestions.
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When there isn’t room to swing a cat (o’ nine tails I mean, never a real cat!), a swiveling vice can be useful. But mine* won’t stay put, either, under hard twisting. So I adjust it to the end of the swivel in the appropriate direction, lock it down as well as it will go with the little levers, then get to work. I like the extra bolt idea, though, perhaps as a close but not tight fit with a clevis pin and a small chain on top so it could be removed easily but wouldn’t wander away from the vice when not in place.
*which looks exactly like the el-cheapo blue vice in the really good video.
*which looks exactly like the el-cheapo blue vice in the really good video.
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Originally Posted by dedhed
You can try a washer under the lever but likely you have bigger issues like needing a new bolt/lever like this.
https://www.ereplacementparts.com/lo...hoCyoQQAvD_BwE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49ZNkZDMajc
https://www.ereplacementparts.com/lo...hoCyoQQAvD_BwE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49ZNkZDMajc
Maybe I missed something, but the solution in that video seems to be to buy a $500 Wilton vice.
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