Happy to have aquired one cheap even if I have to do a little work on it. Somebody welded on angle iron instead of making a new support, that will have to get fixed, and I need to mount a spring on it. [img]http://ebay3.ipixmedia.com/abc/M28/_EBAY_8fb12a0b32a1374a2bf2c8c9bd4a0cb0/i-2.JPG[/img]
Paid $56 and spent about $8 in fuel to pick it up. So I feel it was worth the $64.
the spring can be replaces with a small leaf spring. depending on the area post vices vary in price. around hear 50 is about the normal.
if the weld is sound you probibly dont need to make a new suport. the jaws one the vice should be able to be replaces as they wear. some of the older ones dont have this featcher. another featcher that some of these bad boys have is another mounting point below the jaws of the vice for a die designed to hold round bar stoke
easyer for bar work also can hold much larger objects being built like that you just need to take a brush to cleen off the surface rust on the mounting bracket and the jaw faces for welding. and on top of all that you can convince pieces to go wher you want them with a ten pound sledge with out worrying about damamaging the vice. maybe the table though so no more then a 5 pound sledge unless you trust your bench.
That is considerably more then I paid for any of my leg vices....guess they are cheaper out here.
Remember to make a socket for the leg to plug into the ground. Otherwise the leg just twists around if you apply sideways pressure to the vice. For concrete I make a little bit of upright pipe that the leg can go into and dynabolt it into the concrete. For mounting to the side of a stump I used a large eyebolt that I had welded a bottom into coming out of the stump (makes for a portable vice and stake plate with some MASS).
if you are working on a dirt floor then just hammer a length of pipe into the ground (A good couple of feet)
The pipe should be of a size that the narrow bit on the bottom of the leg vise can get into the pipe, but the collar just up form that anchours an is supported on the pipe's edges.
Sasha
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I used some scrap wood I had around to make a somewhat-portable stand. I've worked with some that were attached to stands made from heavy steel plates and I-beams, which are nice if you know you wont have to move it. Since I'm still a student and much of my stuff is in my parents garage currently, mine workes well. I do think that I'll see about tighting this stand up a bit or build a new one eventually, to take the slop out. I also built a stake plate for this stand.
"Those who look upon a collection of Ancient Armour as a mere assemblage of curiosities have formed a very inadequate idea of its purpose and usefulness." J. Hewitt Catalogue of the Tower Armouries, 1859
