I broke a vise last night

[pjtoledo]

it did put up quite a fight

trying to get this off

another view of the vise

bought it at Tractor Supply last year.
maybe I'll spring for an ADI, Au tempered ductile iron.
the Yost website says they are the strongest, at least in my budget range.

that "thing" is the manifold connector for the EGR tube. the damn thing threaded right out of the manifold.
getting the tube retaining nut off the connector caused all the commotion. the vise wasn't strong enough to hold it.

 

[sheep herder]

JB Weld it.

 

[black_demon69]

duct tape

 

[snoranger]

I hope you weren’t planning on reusing that fitting... or the vice.

 

[pjtoledo]

the threads in the nut stripped too. since it's captured on the tube I'm SOL.

 

[Dirtman]

That's not a vise...

Now this is a vise...

 

[scotts90ranger]

I broke one of mine pressing ARP connecting rod studs in a few years ago... I took it to work and we welded it back together with some nickel rod, good as new...

 

[Eddo Rogue]

get a bigger vise, and put some oxy-acetylene heat to it.

When I get pissed I just weld stuff together.

 

[racsan]

cap it off. hard to find a cap though for those egr tubes. I did that on my ‘88 2.3 , used a brass plug that was close in size. had to rig a stainless hose clamp around it due to the difference in expansion between the cast manifold and brass plug- but it did work in the end.

 

[pjtoledo]

NAPA sells the connector. the tube is readily available complete with a new nut, which I definitely would need after lifting Dirtman's vise.

as it turns out the moveable jaw is actually 2 pieces. the verticle end cap is separate from the horizontal beam.
I had the connector clamped in the vise, put a big wrench with extender on the nut and heard a funny crunching noise.

there's another 3.0 in the garage with the EGR still intact. I'll use lots more PB Blaster on it. wish I had a oxy setup.

 

[scotts90ranger]

Stainless is funny stuff, once it gets a tiny burr and some friction it welds itself to other stainless...

 

[sgtsandman]

Impressive. I’ve yet to break a vise. Heck, I’m surprised I haven’t broken the shelf I have it bolted to yet. Maybe I’m not trying hard enough...

 

[Dirtman]

Ive broken pretty much every vise ive ever used that had "china" cast on the side... never broken a wilton or a kurt and trust me, I have tried. My big wilton (not the one i posted, that was a joke) is at least 70 years old. I've beat that thing in ways that should be considered a hate crime...

My kurts are precision vises and even they have been used in horrifying ways but still hold amazing tolerances after god knows how many years. I bought all my kurts used at auctions because a new kurt vise is too expensive. Ive got 20 years of abuse on them, plus whatever the last owner did to them.

 

[ericbphoto]

Break this one. Thats my cell phone case next to it for scale.

 

[Dirtman]

Thats almost identical to my wilton. Mine has a top anvil surface though.

You have a jet sander. jet sucks!!!!!

Is that kurt vise on the drill press or just a blue knock-off?