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SPiN Racing:
WOW so thats a WWII armor plate from a tank or something??


OH WAIT NO!!!! ITS A VICE!!!



Yeah the Bridgeport Vice I got with my Chinese Clone had a few artillery shell marks in it. Annoys the crap outta me.  I almost considered welding them in and trying to grind it smooth etc.. but Then thought of warping castings and things... Thankfully mine isnt so bad.. well.. it is.. but compared to that.. its a slight blemish on mine.

bogstandard:
Dear me Darren, are you sure that can still be classed as a vice?

To me it looks like, cylinders, pistons, bedplates, more tooling for the shop, in fact anything other than a vice.

I tend to change my vices fairly regularly, so if you are that desperate, you can have my old one when it becomes available in a couple of years time.

And here is me thinking mine was in a bad way because I forgot to turn the power feed off, and dragged a non rotating cutter across the top of mine. BTW the cutter was scrap afterwards.


Bogs

Darren:
You might have a point there John,

I've been looking at it again tonight wondering if it's worth the effort. Shame really cos it really does look little used apart from the holes and slides really nicely.

You have to wonder if this damage has been deliberate, surely no-one keeps making the same mistakes !!

I dunno, I'll look at it some more  and try to see little engines.... :ddb:

CrewCab:

--- Quote from: Darren on May 10, 2009, 02:02:40 PM ---Some people should never be allowed to breathe from birth  :bang:

--- End quote ---

Quite so  :hammer: ................... as for the vice ................. I think it would be kinder to let it quietly pass on ................. or recycle that is  :thumbup: methinks it's "vice" days are up  :bugeye:

CC

bogstandard:
No Darren, it is not deliberate as such.

I have seen them like this before.

Imagine a back street workshop, a one brain celled moron, a very large continuous production job, and a boss that says 'just get it done'. Also he most probably wasn't using the vice to hold the part, just plonking the job on the top of the jaws for support while he drilled a thru hole. Holding the job with one hand and drilling thru with the other, also the vice was most probably not even bolted down, just dropped onto a drill press. Some people haven't the mentality to realise, that is the reason for a ready made hole in a drill press table, goodness knows what someone like that would think what the hole is for.

Somewhere to rest his finger when it wasn't up his a**e nose.


Bogs

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