my Baby Wilton vise

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So, a couple of weeks ago I headed over to my storage barn to do something or other & it occurred to me that I should dig through my little inventory of smaller vises to find one suitable for mounting on a steel table I already have to use here at home for a roll-around work/welding table.  With spring finally here, I will be able to take advantage of the extra hour of daylight (til 10 pm in June/July) & finally maybe get to do some work out in front of my garage during the evenings.  I don't want or need a bigass vise like the Parker or the old #6 for this table.  It is not a true welding table but othe other hand, I do already have it.(In the interest of full disclosure, there is a truely tiny Wilton on ebay right now - 2 inch wide, 3 1/2 inch tall miniature machinist's vise.  And no, I am not advertising it but it is an interesting piece:http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...sPageName=WDVW )So, I toddled off to the back of the shop & dug through the pile & lo & behold, made a discovery - an old 3 inch Wilton machinist's vise.  I had completely forgotten about buying it!  After thinking about it for half a day, I finally dredged up some recollection of finding it at a yard sale sometime within the last year, probably more recently, but for the life of me, I do not remember exactly where or who I bought it from.  I do recall carrying it up to the seller & saying "I'll take your old vise" & handing it to him to set back of the cash drawer while I browsed around some more.  When I paid out we talked about how there was enough left of the broken foot to still bolt down pretty firmly.  The price I paid for it is still written on the top of the vise.    Here is what it looked like when I brought it home: Attached Images
Reply:This vise is about 12 inches long, stands 5 5/8 " tall and weighs in at about 21 pounds.  The handles for the other holddown was missing and the long one on this side was ruined - bent &  stuck and I had to cut it into 3 pieces & drive it out of the nut.  Other than the broken foot it is in good physical shape. Attached Images
Reply:So I took it apart (except for removing the back end & nut) and gave it a cursory cleaning to get the old caked grease off the slide and screw, polished the holddowns up a little bit, re-greased it and re-assembled it.  That'll do for now.  I also cleaned up a couple of old steel door hinge pins to use for handles in the holddown nuts (which turned out to be brass).Here is a picture which kinda gives a little perspective of the size: Attached Images
Reply:I forgot to mention that this is a model 930 and here are the brass holddowns;  If the hinge pins work out OK I will add some ends to make them more permanent. Attached Images
Reply:Now thats a nice Vise cutter,just remember its only a baby
Reply:cutter, can you run some #s for me on my wilton........... its a much bigger brother to yours ! about a 100 lbs! dawg
Reply:Sure thing, Brian.At least I can try.  But all I've been doing is using the Grainger site & matching numbers as best I can, sometimes I resort to dimensions such as jaw width, etc.  It helps to have the vise or at least a photo.  Send me whatever you have.
Reply:Cutter,Last Wedneday I attended an auction at a grinding company that was closing. Pick up an old Wilton #4 4" vise in very good working condition. The swivel base nuts are acorn cap nuts. No handles at all. I'll try and post some pics if interested.Allen
Reply:Originally posted by ralenr Cutter,Last Wedneday I attended an auction at a grinding company that was closing. Pick up an old Wilton #4 4" vise in very good working condition. The swivel base nuts are acorn cap nuts. No handles at all. I'll try and post some pics if interested.Allen