A Useful Two-purpose Workshop Tool.
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THE outstanding merits of the useful device which is shown in the accompanying illustrations will be readily appreciated by all those of our readers who have had workshop experience. The pictures indicate two of the uses to which Swindens' patent revolving-head vice can be put. This appliance is really a two-purpose tool, for it embodies a fitter's vice and a pipe vice. It possesses an adjustable head which enables the work in hand to be set in the position best .suited for the operator, and this position can be changed as frequently as is necessary without the need for unscrewing the jaws.
Swindens' vice will, it is claimed, accommodate work for which the usual fixed-head vice is really quite unsuitable. A quarter-turn of the control lever (marked A in one of the illustrations) releases the complete head without disturbing the work, which can then be turned to the exact angle deSired. A reverse movement of the lever positively locks the head. The vice is made of special alloy steel and is exceptionally strong. The jaw liners are of hardened steel and can readily be renewed, as is usual with most types of up-to-date vice.
In so far as the tool can be used as a fitter's as.well as a pipe vice it results in a saving of space by avoiding the need for the use of two appliances, which is quite an important consideration in many garages and repair shops. Its use as a pipe vice is shown in one of the pictures, which suggests the ease with which tubular articles and bends of every description can be tackled.
The vice is obtainable from Brown Eros., Ltd., Great Eastern Street, London, E.C.2, and is supplied in all inch sizes from 3 ins. to 8 ins. The prices range from a to £12 8s., and the smallest size weighs approximately 42 lb, and the largest about 153 lb.
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