>From: Michael Suwczinsky
>
>This merely tells us that the vise is "quite robust"

>This explains the huge handle on my big (60 lb) post vise, and the large
>forged balls on either end, to keep the cheater pipe off the handle!

The vise with the large balls is safe in your shop because you understand what
they are for. At the foundry the Maintenance Dept had a pipe wrench with a 6’
long handle that was bent because someone (never knew who because they never did
say) put a pipe on the end of the handle. I was taught that If you use an 18”
pipe wrench to tighten you can loosen with a 24”. Must be they tightened the
pipe with the 6’ wrench and didn’t have a bigger one to loosen it.
During my interview tour of the United Technologies Aluminum Extrusion Plant I
noticed a 4’ pipe wrench attached to an hydraulic cylinder and anchored in place
with a chain binder. After I took the job as Maintenance Engineer/Supervisor it
was explained that the cylinder kept coming loose so they tied it down.
Not every person in the world is safe around tools. The ones that aren’t are
seldom deterred from their ways by common sense.
As God is my witness one of the men working for me (who shall remain nameless)
cut off an I Beam while he was standing on it. I had to make out the accident
report.

Dave N.
aka Old Sneelock
”Jack (not his name) get away from that wheelborrow. You know you don’t know
nothing about no chinery.”