[SEL] What is it?

[David Rotigel]

As with most "piston vises" Bill, it's a vise into which a piston is  
placed (and held) in order to work on the fore-mentioned piston!
	Dave
PS, Glad to be of help!
PPS, Books, school, eat!

On Aug 4, 2010, at 11:07 PM, Bill Dickerson wrote:

> 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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