Hobby vise: This is a AMAZON item does anyone have it ?

[rtwpsom2]

Here's a link to Chris' vise for US buyers: https://www.amazon.com/Stanley-1-83-069-MaxSteel-Multi-Yellow/dp/B001HBS0I0

 

[Canuck 2]

Thanks guys for all your inputs,very helpful.

 

[Steviedean]

It's a DSPIAE tool. Chinese made but an extremely quality built tool. I have other tools from them focused on plastic modeling. Usher brands the same tool, slightly cheaper. They are pricey but well made a and you can always find a use for a good tool.

 

[Steviedean]

That would be "USTAR" brand

 

[Stuart Little]

Here's a link to Chris' vise for US buyers: https://www.amazon.com/Stanley-1-83-069-MaxSteel-Multi-Yellow/dp/B001HBS0I0

I have one of these (two originally - packing error by supplier), it's somewhere in my workshop as 'might come in handy one-day'. I tried the other, but found it to be poorly built regarding the jaw alignment i.e.; not meeting correctly to hold small items firmly. It eventually hit the bin, to be replaced with the Proxxon similar vice. But for the best holding of small parts I resort to my toolmaker's machine vice, made by me as an apprentice 62 years ago & has been in constant use since!

 

[Stuart Little]

Few vises that can't be secured to a solid base and take some hammering are as much use as most will want to give them. However, if you are looking for an extremely versatile mid-sized vise that is moveable, you might grab one of the original (not the Asian knockoffs) Zyliss vises. I don't believe they are made any longer, but they do come up on eBay pretty regularly. These aluminum vises aren't suitable for heavy hammering, but they will securely hold just about anything any way. (They're great as keel clamps to hold a model hull at any angle for carving or rigging.) They are as versatile as a real patternmaker's vise and can be clamped on just about any base, depending upon how creative you are. The Zyliss vise was designed by the Swiss army for field use and, like their knives, is truly a "Swiss Army Vise."

Original Z-Vise Switzerland Manual : Zyliss : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

5 p., illus, 27.9 cm, instruction manual

archive.org

Hindsight!!!!!!!!!! I bought a Zyliss at The Ideal Home exhibition in about 1978, with the intension of building a boat (full size), an idea that never went beyond buying plans. It became of little use when I went into the motor trade & was eventually sold (pre EB).
This looks like an 'Ozzie' revival with some refinemets.

 

[Dave @W]

Just one more I have this one:https://www.amazon.com/Pony-13025-3-Inch-Light-Clamp/dp/B00004S9KO

You can clamp it or screw it to a workbanch. There is nothing fancy that you will seldom if ever use, just a pretty decen gadget to hold a workpiece with smooth jaws

It's a Pony 13025. Mine was made in Taiwan while the new ones evidently are made in Mainland China.

 

[Roger Pellett]

Now that looks like a real vise.

 

[Mwentling]

I bought this one after ordering an Amazon special that would not hold its position on a tilt. $118. at https://www.digikey.com/en/product-...ac9a28ca54c115d709de4092698d3a4d&gclsrc=3p.ds. The C-Clamp holds it very firmly, and it stays where you put it. It came with rubber covers for the steel jaws.

 

[Bob Cleek]

Hindsight!!!!!!!!!! I bought a Zyliss at The Ideal Home exhibition in about 1978, with the intension of building a boat (full size), an idea that never went beyond buying plans. It became of little use when I went into the motor trade & was eventually sold (pre EB).
This looks like an 'Ozzie' revival with some refinemets.

Yes, they seem to have "lived on" a bit longer in Australia and New Zealand. I posted that Aussie YouTube video because it was the best of the bunch, but they were selling a later version which many claimed was not as well made as the Swiss-made originals. I remember they used to sell them only at home shows and county fairs where they'd have these fast-talking salesmen doing demonstrations of all the different things they could do with them. They weren't cheap then, either, but compared to what a real patternmaker's vise would cost, they were a bargain.

 

[Jim Fortnam]

Is it good value or junk?

That is the question. Others have posted about alternatives for comparison, but only canuck2 can state the context.

There is no information about the quality - what material it is made from, how accurate or appropriate the the thread used, nor what it’s designed use is. The pin arrangement that is implied by the black blobs alongside the model tank seems an odd example to show, as the tank side is flat, and pins create localised pressure points. They also obscure the model from the paint brush illustrated. Better to show a circular object being held that way.
Not much depth on the vice jaws then, and a double rod arrangement for alignment. What tolerances were used? What material? Aluminium? Zinc alloy?
The base - is it a ball joint connection? Notoriously difficult to secure in a high pressure environment, but excellent choice for a device to hold a small item at a strange angle.

The unusual inclusion of a bending jig makes no sense in a holding device, so money wasted.

Even if you are in a target market of ‘benders’ surely a dedicated bend station would be a better choice, and utterly simple to fabricate for anyone who could be considering such a vice.

So the answer from me would be ‘don’t know’

And unless I had nothing else, and had an opportunity to handle it, I’d be keeping my hands in my pockets and not buying

Jim

 

[Namabiiru]

I agree with you about the addition of the bending bug.