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The Shop => Tools => Topic started by: BaronJ on June 25, 2015, 05:14:41 PM

Title: Scrapyard find
Post by: BaronJ on June 25, 2015, 05:14:41 PM

Hi Guys,

I found this at the local scrapyard today.  Mine for a fiver :bugeye:

Title: Re: Scrapyard find
Post by: vtsteam on June 25, 2015, 07:37:23 PM

Nice!  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Scrapyard find
Post by: steampunkpete on June 26, 2015, 03:35:29 PM

Clean, de-rust, respray, grease. A bargain.

Title: Re: Scrapyard find
Post by: appletree on June 26, 2015, 05:14:55 PM

Bargain does not look like it has done any hard work.

Title: Re: Scrapyard find
Post by: BaronJ on June 26, 2015, 05:24:27 PM

Actually it doesn't have any rust at all on it anywhere and its well greased.  I do agree, a thorough cleaning and re-paint will make it look like new.  Where ever it came from, its had a good home.   I'll post a picture of it when I have it fettled.

Luck would have it that I was nosing about when the flatback that it was on, unloaded next to me.  So having spotted it, I grabbed it and the scrapyard owner just looked at me and said a fiver...

One thing that I have noticed though, is that apart from the embossed lettering on the casting its Identical to my Record 4" engineers vice only 3 inch jaws instead of four, even down to the blue colour of the paint.

Title: Re: Scrapyard find
Post by: awemawson on June 26, 2015, 06:12:17 PM

Paramo are / were a good make.

With my first weeks wages in my first holiday job as a teenager I went out to buy a vice at the local ironmonger on the Fulham Road in Chelsea. Choice was between a Paramo and a Record - both were good but for reasons I cannot remember I choose a Record #3. That was in (probably) 1967, and I am STILL using that vice as my main vice. Decent investment I reckon  :ddb: