[SEL] What is it?

[Reg Ingold]

It is a vice to allow a piston to be held for working on without causing it 
damage. The top parts are rubber stuff when you need to do any machine job 
on the alloy stuff you dont need any marks etc on the working surface.
The 4 holding faces stop crush damage.
A nice bit of gear.
 I use two nylon vee blocks to hold model pistons in the machine vice. I 
also make a plastic collet for holding in the lath chuck.
Reg & Marg Ingold
Newcastle.NSW  Australia
randmingold at hotkey.net.au
http://www.oldengine.org/members/randmingold

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Dickerson" <bill at antique-engines.com>
To: "'The SEL email discussion list'" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 1:07 PM
Subject: [SEL] What is it?


> My former boss gave it to my father to give to me as a gift (I've
> "inherited" a LOT of the tools we used to use when I worked for him in the
> mid70s)
>
> He called it a "piston vise"............. ?
> This is one tool I don't recall, but he ran an old shop and had a lot of
> stuff from the 50s and 60s, and I bet some stuff from earlier.
>
> http://antique-engines.com/images/misc/vise-001.jpg
> http://antique-engines.com/images/misc/vise-002.jpg
> http://antique-engines.com/images/misc/vise-003.jpg
> http://antique-engines.com/images/misc/vise-004.jpg
>
> Bill
>
>
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