PROFESSIONALLY WELDED VISE CL AD

[Ken W.]

I saw this ad for tools. In it is this vise for $ 30.00. It says it was professionally welded. I'm not a welder by trade but I think that this is a crappy weld job. If my weld looked like that I would have ground it down and painted it. And the ad says it's worth that in scrap. Why wouldn't you scrap it then ??   

https://buffalo.craigslist.org/tls/d/craftsman-porter-cable-vise/6621328490.html?lang=en&cc=gb

[Spartan-C]

Yeah, It's just going to break off again next to the weld.  Durocraft=Junk.

[mrchuck]

Agree 100%.
If one wants a USA quality vise,I have a shop full of them reasonably priced. It's the freight charge that UPS gets that's high!

[Papaw]

IANA Welder, and that looks like the stuff I used to do when I tried to weld. Mudobbing I think it is called.

[EVILDR235]

Professionally welded by who,  Little Stevie Wonder ?

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[slip knot]

SO, He paid someone to do that?????

[gibsontool]

The only success I've ever had repairing broken or cracked vises is by brazing them.I think most of them are cast steel and there well may be some cast welding rods out there for sale now that can do the job but I have not done any repairs to a vise for about 15 or so years.

[Nolatoolguy]

The only success I've ever had repairing broken or cracked vises is by brazing them.I think most of them are cast steel and there well may be some cast welding rods out there for sale now that can do the job but I have not done any repairs to a vise for about 15 or so years.

A good welder could tig weld one. You can stick or wire feed but in my expierence not very good. Brazing works in some applications. Pre and post heat are critical.

I did probably 40 vises a few years ago in highschool. I scrapped most but I got good practice. Large marjority of them were junky imported vises.

Sadly I no longer have access to a large tig machine for whatever I want.

[EVILDR235]

Bolt a chain on to it for your bass boat if you get my drift. Yes, pun intended.

EvilDr235

[Lostmind]

The only success I've ever had repairing broken or cracked vises is by brazing them.I think most of them are cast steel and there well may be some cast welding rods out there for sale now that can do the job but I have not done any repairs to a vise for about 15 or so years.

I was gifted a brazed vise over 50 years ago. I used it hard ,never thought about it breaking. It looked to be at least 50 years old when I got. Wonder what will happen to it when I'm gone.

[Uncle Buck]

It was a wasted effort on a vise that was junk new. With no repair the vise would not be worth $30 to me.

[Ken W.]

I was gifted a brazed vise over 50 years ago. I used it hard ,never thought about it breaking. It looked to be at least 50 years old when I got. Wonder what will happen to it when I'm gone.
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Bass boat anchor.

[Uncle Buck]

I was gifted a brazed vise over 50 years ago. I used it hard ,never thought about it breaking. It looked to be at least 50 years old when I got. Wonder what will happen to it when I'm gone.

Bass boat anchor.
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Not likely, it would have been a quality vise, with obviously a good repair to withstand 50 years of hard use. Someone will give it a home. Not many crap import vises around 50 years ago.

[kwoswalt99]

The only success I've ever had repairing broken or cracked vises is by brazing them.I think most of them are cast steel and there well may be some cast welding rods out there for sale now that can do the job but I have not done any repairs to a vise for about 15 or so years.

Most vises are grey cast iron, more specifically semi-steel, which is a lower carbon content grey cast iron. There's only 3 manufactures I know of that made cast steel vises.

[Yadda]

I was gifted a brazed vise over 50 years ago. I used it hard ,never thought about it breaking. It looked to be at least 50 years old when I got. Wonder what will happen to it when I'm gone.

Bass boat anchor.
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Will it to me.  I don't want you to worry about it.