[SEL] What is it?

[bill at antique-engines.com]

Thanks - and to think it took a tenured professor to explain that!

Bill


> 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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