http://www.flickr.com/photos/deserttraveler/

I've seen a lot of vises, but most have anvil tops. This one has a curved
lip, but not much room to put anything and pound. Anyone know what this
type of vise is used for?

Steve

SteveB wrote:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/deserttraveler/

I've seen a lot of vises, but most have anvil tops. This one has a curved
lip, but not much room to put anything and pound. Anyone know what this
type of vise is used for?

Steve



Clamping something while you work on it?

On Oct 4, 8:03*pm, "SteveB" wrote:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/deserttraveler/

I've seen a lot of vises, but most have anvil tops. *This one has a curved
lip, but not much room to put anything and pound. *Anyone know what this
type of vise is used for?

Steve

AFAIK Eron is/was a brand I first saw imported by SPI (Swiss Precision
Instuments). Some of the stuff was okay but some was Harbor Freight
quality. My guess is that your example is of the latter category and
when they (most likely Taiwanese at the time) cloned the American made
original they didn't see any value in the anvil portion and simply
lopped it off of their patten.

Or it could be a a place to put your pencil so it desn't roll off.

Monkey Butler wrote:
On Oct 4, 8:03 pm, "SteveB" wrote:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/deserttraveler/

I've seen a lot of vises, but most have anvil tops. This one has a curved
lip, but not much room to put anything and pound. Anyone know what this
type of vise is used for?

Steve

AFAIK Eron is/was a brand I first saw imported by SPI (Swiss Precision
Instuments). Some of the stuff was okay but some was Harbor Freight
quality. My guess is that your example is of the latter category and
when they (most likely Taiwanese at the time) cloned the American made
original they didn't see any value in the anvil portion and simply
lopped it off of their patten.

Or it could be a a place to put your pencil so it desn't roll off.

It would be added weight and an added cost to ship from Asia.

On Oct 4, 7:03*pm, "SteveB" wrote:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/deserttraveler/

I've seen a lot of vises, but most have anvil tops. *This one has a curved
lip, but not much room to put anything and pound. *Anyone know what this
type of vise is used for?

Steve

I'd say the way the sliding arm itself is made, that it is an anvil.

I don't know what the lip is for. A cigarette tray?

On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 18:05:08 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Oct 4, 7:03*pm, "SteveB" wrote:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/deserttraveler/

I've seen a lot of vises, but most have anvil tops. *This one has a curved
lip, but not much room to put anything and pound. *Anyone know what this
type of vise is used for?

Steve

I'd say the way the sliding arm itself is made, that it is an anvil.

I don't know what the lip is for. A cigarette tray?

While that makes sense, it's either for bending or resting - what I
don't know. I've seen hundreds of these type machinists vises, never
seen anybody use the lip for anything.

Maybe Gene would know.

On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 18:03:16 -0600, "SteveB"
wrote:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deserttraveler/

I've seen a lot of vises, but most have anvil tops. This one has a curved
lip, but not much room to put anything and pound. Anyone know what this
type of vise is used for?

It's called a machinists vise. It's not designed for blck smithing,
but for normal everyday machining.

http://www.ipstool.com/detail.asp?product_id=E1053

"Gene" wrote in message
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On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 06:12:41 -0400, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 18:03:16 -0600, "SteveB"
wrote:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deserttraveler/

I've seen a lot of vises, but most have anvil tops. This one has a
curved
lip, but not much room to put anything and pound. Anyone know what this
type of vise is used for?

It's called a machinists vise. It's not designed for blck smithing,
but for normal everyday machining.

http://www.ipstool.com/detail.asp?product_id=E1053

Most quality machinist vises have a small anvil (and some even have a
small horn). They aren't good for much, but make a nice surface for
light tapping.
http://yostvises.com/heavyduty.htm

ERON vises are crappy vises (usually knock-offs) made somewhere in the
Pacific. It is likely that the company lopped the anvil off of the
pattern to cut materials and shipping weight.

It was low priced, too. Ten bucks. It will do what I want it to.

Steve