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Offline skipskip

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Found a vise for a steamfitter
« on: April 03, 2017, 05:40:23 PM »
Vanderman number 1

5 inch jaws

notice the grooves in the back, for bending pipe and conduit

DSCF3631 by Skip Albright, on Flickr
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Re: Found a vise for a steamfitter
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2017, 06:22:22 PM »
Nice!   :grin:
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Re: Found a vise for a steamfitter
« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2017, 06:50:04 PM »
Nice, I have a Pinterest board for those.
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Re: Found a vise for a steamfitter
« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2017, 07:20:50 PM »
nice pics walt
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Re: Found a vise for a steamfitter
« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2017, 08:23:05 PM »
actually i believe those opening slots held dies for putting bends in pipe. mostly steam/hot water cast iron radiators in ol' timey homes back in the day.
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Re: Found a vise for a steamfitter
« Reply #5 on: April 03, 2017, 08:55:16 PM »
Wow.  Not the usual vise.  Also never heard of Willimantic, Conn - now part of Norwich.
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Re: Found a vise for a steamfitter
« Reply #6 on: April 05, 2017, 03:14:39 PM »
Quote from: amecks on April 03, 2017, 08:55:16 PM
...  Also never heard of Willimantic, Conn - now part of Norwich.

NO, Willimantic is a small older city within the town of Windham CT.
Norwich is also a small older city, about 10 miles south along the Thames river
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Re: Found a vise for a steamfitter
« Reply #7 on: April 05, 2017, 09:16:33 PM »
 you never heard of the city with the frog bridge ????

  Route 32 goes thru the city.

  same route 32 that goes thru Monson, Massachusetts, where I hang my hat.
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Re: Found a vise for a steamfitter
« Reply #8 on: April 07, 2017, 07:27:10 AM »
Right, Windham.  Musta got mixed up after I read the map.  The Frog Bridge?  Never heard of it but I know about it now. Thanks.
http://www.damnedct.com/the-frog-bridge-willimantic/
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Re: Found a vise for a steamfitter
« Reply #9 on: April 07, 2017, 06:47:02 PM »
Love the vise, but I am more enamoured with the sharpener behind it it. I looked at the other photos, cool tool!

I also saw the scenery back of your shop in your photos over looking the river.  Very nice.
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