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CRF6179

CRF6179

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A friend gave me this vise about 25 years ago.I
It was gerring kinda grungy sotoday I took it apart. Cleaned and reassembled. Coated the ways with paste wax. Works nice and smoothly now. I keep a small shop vac by the drill press. Hooefully it will stay cleaner.
 

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Cummins tools! I knew of them before Harbor Freight! Used to be a truck that would set up at the county fairgrounds once or twice a year.

Very nice vise, good job getting it freshened up, Rick. I should go steal my little shop vac back from Loree. She staked a claim to it a while back and hasn't used it at all!

DAC
 
CRF6179 said:
A friend gave me this vise about 25 years ago.I
It was gerring kinda grungy sotoday I took it apart. Cleaned and reassembled. Coated the ways with paste wax. Works nice and smoothly now. I keep a small shop vac by the drill press. Hooefully it will stay cleaner.
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Looks like a pretty good vice Rick.
And I too remember Cummins Tools. Some were a lot to be desired. Remember buying a set of jumbo wrenches and using them once they looked like a pretzel. Thinking back I believe the whole set of 5 or 6 wrenches was maybe $39. Quite the deal. By comparison one Snap-On wrench back then was probably $239. But I did end up with a bunch of specialized wrenches. :thumbs:
 
I have a similar 6" cross vice in my industrial drill press. It has a big variable speed system and that belt won't slip if something hangs up. Didn't hardly attempt using without a vice on it's table as holding item to be drilled by hand it could rip my arm off!
 
chieffan said:
I have a Cummings chop saw that quit on me several years ago. Think it needs brushes, which I have some place. Also have 3 extra cut off wheel for it. Either need to fix it and get it running or throw it out.
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If you scrap it and they are 14" wheels you can send them my way Rog! I'll pay the SpeeDee delivery charge!

I got my 1st auto darkening welding helmet at a Cummings tool sale. It was "Speedway" brand---LOL! That dang thing worked great for me until a couple years ago when I bought a Vulcan. Probably still works fine, just has a small viewing lens. Used AA batteries so that was easily replaced and had a sensitivity adjustment too. Think it was 35 bucks. Also bought a 50' Goodyear air hose and a hand crank reel for it. Both are still fine except that Goodyear hose was yellow so it is mostly grease colored now! Still have it hanging on the wall for a full compressor pressure hose. The 50' auto wind I got when I retired is regulated to 90 psi.

DAC
 
We bought a few Dayton ones at work. It’s hard to get the guys to keep the drill press area clean. It gets to be an absolute mess…

I remember tool sales when I was a kid. It wasn’t harbor freight. Maybe it was Cummins like Doug remembers. They’d set up a tent at the mall, or some other places. I have a table top drill press that came from on of those sales in like 2001. I remember my dad and I went and got stuff and me and my girlfriend at the time took my Ranger up and picked them up.
 
We bought a few Dayton ones at work. It’s hard to get the guys to keep the drill press area clean. It gets to be an absolute mess…

I remember tool sales when I was a kid. It wasn’t harbor freight. Maybe it was Cummins like Doug remembers. They’d set up a tent at the mall, or some other places. I have a table top drill press that came from on of those sales in like 2001. I remember my dad and I went and got stuff and me and my girlfriend at the time took my Ranger up and picked them up.
 
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