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| Rob, I use liner leather from an old pair of cowboy boots that didnt fit me anymore(I don't like to throw good leather away). I glued it on with Barge cement. |
| Posts: 4917 | Location: Wenatchee, WA, USA | Registered: 17 December 2001 |
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| I use a closed cell foam of some kind. Dont know exactly what kind it is. Got it at work. It's about 1/2" thick and glued on. How do you like the vise? I recieved mine for Christmas and love it.
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| Posts: 291 | Location: Way out west | Registered: 23 January 2007 |
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| Haven't used it yet but it's at one corner of my bench and I have one of those copies of the Brownell vise at the other corner. Good to have the right tools.
How the memory on that closed cell foam? Does it readily expand when you release the pressure?
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| Posts: 1693 | Location: East Coast | Registered: 06 January 2003 |
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| Rob, I have found both leather and cork work excellent. I use barge cement too. Steve |
| Posts: 3770 | Location: Boulder Colorado | Registered: 27 February 2004 |
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| Jim, I have a set of those too. Produced by Len Bull. They work great most of the time, But not when you want dead solid hold, they give some. Great to have in the shop though. Steve |
| Posts: 3770 | Location: Boulder Colorado | Registered: 27 February 2004 |
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| quote: Originally posted by Jim Kobe: These flat out work. I have had the same ones for better than ten years. http://www.brownells.com/aspx/NS/store/productdetail.aspx?p=22186&s=
A pair of those cost more than what I paid for my muti-vise. It could be a career trying to find stuff cheaper than at Brownells. Crikey! It a piece of rubber glued to Aluminum. |
| Posts: 1693 | Location: East Coast | Registered: 06 January 2003 |
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| rob, it is acually poured. Good old Len has the formula for the rubber and poors them right onto the aluminum. Mine were seconds bought from Len himself for a much reduced price. They do work well, but so do other less costly options. As for prices at brownell's, it depends. I never buy tooling or things that can be bought from industrial supply companies, way too spendy. They have some of the best customer service of anyone I do buisiness with, they ship very fast, and they can provide more technical information than most other supply outlets. They can be spendy at times. Steve |
| Posts: 3770 | Location: Boulder Colorado | Registered: 27 February 2004 |
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| Thanks Steve, I agree with your assessment of Brownells, spendy but good service doesn't come cheap.
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| Posts: 1693 | Location: East Coast | Registered: 06 January 2003 |
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| Pattern maker's skin is quite durable. Stockmaker's can work too but I find most of them to be rather thin-skinned.
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| Posts: 11142 | Location: Texas, USA | Registered: 22 September 2003 |
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| This stuff is pretty cool, Vice Padding haven't used it to hold a stock, but I don't have a pattern makers vise either.... |
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| I like to use these to hold gunstocks while I work on them: For turning springs, polishing screws or other fine work I use smaller jaws. They have to be able to exert a lot of gripping pressure: The skin off an old fighter pilot's ass is way too thick for these purposes. Also, after so many years of getting chewed on and chewed out, it is no longer pliable. |
| Posts: 7158 | Location: Snake River | Registered: 02 February 2004 |
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| I have 1//4" neopreme rubber that I get from an industrial gasket place they dig me a scrap out of the scrap barrel and give it to me. I have a parrott vice, I was thinking about replatcing it with the vise in the pic from midway. That looks like a good vise.
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| Posts: 1868 | Location: League City, Texas | Registered: 11 April 2003 |
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| R B
I use the 1/8 inch Kick-eez, Sorbothane cheek pad material offered by Brownells. It is self adhesive and comes in a 6" by 5" sheet. It stands up real good to a lot of heavy use.
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