So. I was kindof impressed with the veritas vice for surviving the wallop the way it did. I mean, "Must survive having 500lb of bench and silly person dropped on the handle by the silly person" can't have been on the design specs after all, and yet it managed it. So I wrote off to veritas to say nicely done lads, that's a nice bit of kit.
They're posting - unasked for and free of charge - a replacement screw shaft thingy for the vice, so it'd look its best.
I mean, I know, cheap marketing and so on, but still. Deserves a bit of a thumbs-up I thought. Can't see Bosch doing that because I dropped a drill and the casing survived the impact. And it's kindof, not to be too much of a leftie pinko commie hippie about it, but it's kindof nice when a manufacturer does that sort of thing.
So there it is. A nice little postscript to the build.