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  • Member since
    February 2004
  • From: Dillwyn, VA
Looking for a good pin vise
Posted by In The Woods on Thursday, September 3, 2009 6:23 PM

I would like to know what brand of pin vise other forum members are using.  I find that the one I have, which does have reversible chucks, can't manage the teenier drill bits.  The vise can't grip the bit firmly enough to keep the bit from slipping, and I end up drilling the hole by using my fingers as a hand-dandy vise.  There must be some brand of vise that will hold and render usable a size 80 drill bit.

 

Thanks to all who reply.

 

I can't remember the brand of my vise, as it's unlabeled and I threw away the packaging ages ago.

 

With best regards,

 

Stephen S. Mack

Never put temptation in the way of a weak soul. Mrs. Dinkins' First Precept
  • Member since
    August 2006
  • From: Neenah, WI
Posted by HawkeyeHobbies on Friday, September 4, 2009 7:26 AM

Excel released this one last year at iHobby.

 

I have been using these for years. The two on the right are tip cleaners used for cleaning gas welding/cutting torches. They come with an assortment of bits inside the body. Available at most places that stock welding supplies...I got mine at a local hardware store for under $12.

 

Gerald "Hawkeye" Voigt

http://hawkeyes-squawkbox.com/

 

 

"Its not the workbench that makes the model, it is the modeler at the workbench."

  • Member since
    January 2009
  • From: Central CA
Posted by Division 6 on Tuesday, September 29, 2009 2:37 PM

I picked one up in the tool section at OSH.

It's sold as a tip cleaner for torchs.

Comes with about a dozen bits.

 

Eric... 

  • Member since
    January 2012
Posted by I make stuff on Tuesday, September 29, 2009 8:10 PM

I asked about a pin vise at the LHS, they wanted $20.00.

I boogied over to Harbor Freight and poked around, I picked out one that had about 6 bits, AND a giant set of tiny bits in a blister pack, i think it was under $5.00 out the door.

I don't even know if there IS a brand name on it, but I know it works.   

 

I just looked on line and don't see it, but it is in with the drill bits.

JML
  • Member since
    February 2008
  • From: Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Posted by JML on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 9:34 AM

Tamiya makes two.  Get the better one.  Best one made, period.

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