Here’s the 2 South Bends together today:

remember it is a mole grip…not a vise grip LOL 🙂

Which work the release lever backwards compared to the correct British way. I’m always finding stuff over here that is the opposite of the *correct* way.
The taps have the hot & cold opposite the UK way.

The light switches are upsidedown.

Bicycle brakes are backasswards so they have the front brake on the left side… which damn near put me over the handlebars the day I discovered that one 🙁

Good job you are spelling it in americanese,otherwise you have many vices sir 😀
Seems a harmless hobby ,unless you drop a vice on your foot of course !
I have mostly hand tools but a neighbour has a garage full of allsorts inc a lathe and bandsaw etc,so you are not alone in your hobby for sure.

Expat living in California, sometimes forget to use correct spelling on whatever forum I’m on at the time… 🙂

Anywho, the Dunlap is finished.

I’m making some aluminum/aluminium jaws for the British Paramo.. might even make some from brass.. but thats the *beater* vise/vice as it has 4 chunks missing & is going on the welding bench. 🙂

There’s also an ongoing floorjack resto..

This is how it was found:

ok, heres a few..

Latest vise, a Dunlap:

Wilton & a Paramo:

Wilton as found:

& it’s previous home:

SB Heavy 10:

The Dunlap last night:

I took a Ryanair flight from Beauvais to Prestwick some years back and went to see a chap who was selling a whole load of aeronautical gear up near Loch Lomond. Most of it I bought and arranged for it to be packaged up and sent on to me….but one item I could not resist taking there and then. It was a mint condition 1940 dated seat type Irvin parachute and harness and I took it back with me on the return trip to France….as hand luggage. You should have seen some of the faces as I stowed it in the locker!! Priceless.

Friend of mine is retired 101st Airborne & has about 3500 jumps (thats not a typo). He was coming back to LA on a SouthWorse 737 & had his chute as hand luggage. He boards the plane & puts the chute in the overhead.

One of the other passengers asks him “What was that?”

His reply: “A parachute, didn’t they give you one?” :D:D:D:D

An aquaintance on another forum posted that he was somewhat bewildered to find himself in Tescos, next in line to a guy buying 160 eggs & 1 lemon…