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Offline Ken W.

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WILTON TILTING BENCH VISE CL FIND 7-1-18
« on: July 01, 2018, 08:39:59 PM »
I picked up this Wilton tilting vise off CL today. It doesn't swivel , but tilts side to side. This one is missing the jaw inserts , but it will work well for gunsmithing as it wont mar the metal. You also use a thick piece of leather. I have another one of these vises with the jaws in much better condition. I'm not sure how comon these vises are , but this is the 3rd one I've come accross. Any idea of when these were made ? I'm thinking 1970's  ?
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Re: WILTON TILTING BENCH VISE CL FIND 7-1-18
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2018, 10:43:56 PM »
Cool little vise. I've never seen one in the wild or it would come home with me...

Not a clue on date tho.
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Re: WILTON TILTING BENCH VISE CL FIND 7-1-18
« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2018, 04:19:47 AM »
Hello, Ken. Very nice!!!!!
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Re: WILTON TILTING BENCH VISE CL FIND 7-1-18
« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2018, 05:25:09 AM »
that is pretty cool

don't know that I've seen one before
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Re: WILTON TILTING BENCH VISE CL FIND 7-1-18
« Reply #4 on: July 02, 2018, 08:00:06 AM »
I have the same one but with a swivel base.  Dad bought ours in 1972 from a industrial supply house in Houston he used to deal with. It came with two sets of jaws.  I'll try to take some pictures and post today.

I wish you guys would open up the picture size a little bit.  It's a nightmare for me to resize a picture to 200k in size from 5mb!  I can do it very easy on my smart phone down to about 750k.  Any smaller and I have to open up in paint and resize.

Ken

Here are the pictures of mine.  It came with two sets of jaws, the straight jaws as shown and a set of pipe jaws, which I have no clue what happen to them.  I recall dad paying around $12.99 for the vise back then.
Ken
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Re: WILTON TILTING BENCH VISE CL FIND 7-1-18
« Reply #5 on: July 03, 2018, 02:23:02 PM »
Wow, tilts and swivels,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, :cool:
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Re: WILTON TILTING BENCH VISE CL FIND 7-1-18
« Reply #6 on: July 03, 2018, 03:33:20 PM »
Like a really heavy duty version of a parrot vise.
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Re: WILTON TILTING BENCH VISE CL FIND 7-1-18
« Reply #7 on: July 03, 2018, 07:56:29 PM »
I had one a few years ago that I got from a Russian fellow at the flea market. I sold it to a member of this forum that has a used antique tool website. Somebody told me that my vise was a sheet metal vise. It tilted also and had wide jaws. It also was a Wilton brand vise.

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