bill epstein
02-23-2020, 8:58 PM
Get a 10" Eclipse Quick Release.
My trusty 30 year old Jorgensen finally gave up it's QR threads. I decided to get a 7" Eclipse on Friday but none were in stock at the usual suspects. Ditto the 9" but Amazon had a 10", and would arrive today. I figured, what's 5 lbs.?, and ordered it. It's enormous!!
Got it bolted down, did the Archimedes fulcrum thing to flip the bench top back over and discovered, unlike every other vise in the galaxy, the face depth isn't 3", it's 3 5/8. Another clean and jerk, unbolted and inserted a 3/4" shim, and did the dead lift again. Now this isn't a lightweight bench but when I pulled the jaw out far enough to drill the face holes (the Eclipse jaw isn't removable like the Jorgensen but you can pull it right out across the room) I learned a butterfly alighting on the jaw might tip the whole thing over. A 10 lb. casting from a defunct motor I just couldn't throw away now has a home in the tool tray.
I miss the wood handle.
426613
My trusty 30 year old Jorgensen finally gave up it's QR threads. I decided to get a 7" Eclipse on Friday but none were in stock at the usual suspects. Ditto the 9" but Amazon had a 10", and would arrive today. I figured, what's 5 lbs.?, and ordered it. It's enormous!!
Got it bolted down, did the Archimedes fulcrum thing to flip the bench top back over and discovered, unlike every other vise in the galaxy, the face depth isn't 3", it's 3 5/8. Another clean and jerk, unbolted and inserted a 3/4" shim, and did the dead lift again. Now this isn't a lightweight bench but when I pulled the jaw out far enough to drill the face holes (the Eclipse jaw isn't removable like the Jorgensen but you can pull it right out across the room) I learned a butterfly alighting on the jaw might tip the whole thing over. A 10 lb. casting from a defunct motor I just couldn't throw away now has a home in the tool tray.
I miss the wood handle.
426613