TFrench":384l32p9 said:
Evening chaps. I just bought this seriously cool vice on eBay - mainly because I've never seen anything like it before. I think it's a machinist/engineers vice. Absolutely beautifully made thing. The rear jaw spins when you depress the latch at the back to give all the different shaped jaws. The brass soft jaw is captive on the lower rod so it just sounds out of the way when not needed. The only marking I can find on it is HALE D 50-1. Done a fair bit of googling and can't find anything about it. Has anyone seen one before?
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I have one of these, found at carboot about 10 years ago.
Mine is DOHM version, the name plate gives a London address, which was then an HMV store!
Yours has some major differences to mine, the basic layout is the same, mine has a different shaped back jaw, more triangler rather than rounded cut-outs, the release mechanism on mine is a direct acting pin, push down to release. Not the square rod system, yours appears to have.
All told a very useful small vice, limited to light work, because of "racking" in the jaws, all the support rods and screw are off-set.
All I could find out about it, was it was the smallest in a range of sizes, the largest having 6 inch jaws. Very difficult to find others, so not many could have been made, or sold.
Made/sold under a few different names, making tracing even more difficult.
Tip for use, only saw to the right hand side of the jaws. Cutting to the left, risks the blade dropping on to the vice.
Mines now sitting in store where I can't get to it, so no photos.
Bod