Need a good vice

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Hey all,

Just curious where I can find an inexpensive vice to do my gun work on. It doesn't need to hold anything heavy at all. Just barrels, pistons, and the like for filing, cutting, etc. I also don't have a workbench currently, so I'd like to not have to attach it to anything. Maybe something with a weighted bottom?

Clamps are cool and all, but I feel that they are cumbersome.

Any thoughts?

[ThunderCactus]

princess auto?

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Originally Posted by ThunderCactus

princess auto?

Dude... thank you...

[chaz]

Or Busy Bee Tools

[lurkingknight]

if you have space get one that opens up a lot more (bigger).... just cause you want it for gun work doesn't mean you won't find something to use it for unrelated to airsoft.

[Brian McIlmoyle]

Take up smoking

[Ricochet]

Miami

[silent_lemon]

Originally Posted by Brian McIlmoyle

Take up smoking

good one, ha.

anywhere that sells tools. May i suggest cutting 2 squares of decent thickness plywood and screwing them together, then mounting the vice to that for a quick and dirty work bench? you could cut the squares to the size of one of your commonly used tables and clamp it down or put legs on it, put it on saw horses, leave the platform on the ground, but it's a nice flat surface for good attachment. blar blar brickity smackity.

[Brian McIlmoyle]

I have a selection of Vices, from a Workmate, to a workmate clamp on vice, to a small bench vice , to a large mechanic's vice, all the way up to a massive, 80lb leg vice from the 1800s ... I use the leg vice the most .. it is rock solid and will hold anything.

I built a bench to attach the vices to, its 30 inches wide and 5 feet long and has 100 board feet of 2x6 in it... bolted to the wall... that bench could hold a car. when you want something to hold something.. don't cheap out. buy the best you can afford, and more than you will think you will need.

[airsoftjunky]

Originally Posted by ThunderCactus

princess auto?

I picked a real nifty little vice there with a suction cup bottom for about 20 smackaroos. Suction cup sucks, but the vice itself works awsome for holding barrels and small items, and is weighted enough to hold most things fine.