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Originally Posted by pj67coll
It's a "Stanly" or "Irwin" depending on what they have in stock.
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Stanley world headquarters is a couple towns over from me. Little if anything is produced in this country anymore, and most if not all is made in China. Stanley ran with the big dogs in its day. Now it's that stray mongrel begging for scraps.
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Originally Posted by cscmc1
I picked mine up at a garage sale last summer. They had 4 or 5 to pick from; the guy had loads of tools. This one is a nice heavy monster made in Rockford, IL. I believe I paid $20, and couldn't be happier with it.
Unless you need one TODAY, just keep an eye out at junk/pawn shops and wait 'til the springtime garage sales start back up!
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That's what I'm thinking. Do a search on CL for them, too. You'll probably a lot better off with someone's used 20-50 yo vise than a new one, anyway.
We've got one here in our shop that's used regularly but relatively lightly. I don't know how vises are sized, but it weighs over 50 lbs. I know this because somehow we managed to break the sliding portion/front half off and I had to replace it. It was a larger, Chinese made one because the older one was too small for the work we were doing. We got 5 years out of it and it was pretty cheap and will replace it with another cheap one since it's not a critical component.
The old (50+ yo), smaller one is now in my possession and I'll probably pass it on to my kids just before I check out.
