Our trusty bench vice finally gave up the Yost….. I wish it was a heroic story of clamping onto a 500lb cylinder rod while hammering off a piston nut using our 1” impact, or a 10ft breaker bar, but it was a small 1-1/2” rod weighing in at less than 10lbs that did it in. No loud crack or epic fanfare, just a feeling of things not working right, then a small pop and that was the end. We will probably fix the old girl up and put it on the shelf as a spare, but its time to upgrade to a Hard-Tail and get back to work!
@USHYD A promo code was sent in a message. Does that vintage year vise have the double start thread spindle? Here’s a video on the testing of that vise. This video shows why the Fireball Hardtail vise is better than the Yost vise.
I bought my Wilton “No 4” used when it was at least 75 years old and thought it indestructible as a garage vice until one day after 20 years of use had an anticlimactic failure while breaking loose a Jeep tie rod. No bang or pop- it just stopped clamping. Felt like losing an old friend
broke this vise about a year ago, had to bend a quick bracket and didn’t want to dig out the press brake… 3’“ of 11ga with a 1.5” relief cut. I knew it was too much for the vise and the little jaw brake, but she popped way before I anticipated…
@WooFab Discount code was sent in messages. This isn’t the first time that I’ve seen a vise pop wile using one of those bending dies in a vise. I’m surprised that you’ve kept the vise this long. Are you going to repair it?
I figure it’s worth a shot. Worst case scenario it’s just more broken and back in the scrap pile. That’s if I don’t end up stripping some parts of it first.
Pony Vise bought 5 years ago. The jaw bolts keep shearing off and vice threads are shot. Trying to turn something with a large pipe wrench and the bolts sheared off that hold the jaws on.
At some point I told my little brother that he “couldn’t hurt" the anvil on the back of my old Buffalo. Then, with a small sledge, he tried to pound a weld flat into the material and caved in the anvil. Not long after I was taking apart a couple of old 1.5” black iron firings with a pipe wrench and cheater bar. That’s when I ripped the vise apart.