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Painted a Wilton machinist vise, maybe it is nuts. Ignoramus17335 05-29-2008
Posted by Maxwell on May 30, 2008, 12:26 am
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>> Around here, almost any welder or fab guy with a flat bed truck has one
>> on the tail or wants one.
>> The covered screw helps keep it covered from rain.
>
> How do they prevent them from getting stolen? Weld the ends of the
> bolts holding them to the bed?
>
> i

That or something like it.

Depending on how accessible the bottom of the bed is, you can often just use
carriage bolts from the top down.




Posted by Ignoramus9931 on May 30, 2008, 12:47 am
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>
>>> Around here, almost any welder or fab guy with a flat bed truck has one
>>> on the tail or wants one.
>>> The covered screw helps keep it covered from rain.
>>
>> How do they prevent them from getting stolen? Weld the ends of the
>> bolts holding them to the bed?
>>
>> i
>
> That or something like it.
>
> Depending on how accessible the bottom of the bed is, you can often just use
> carriage bolts from the top down.

Keep in mind, also, that even if the bottom base is bolted down
securely, the thief can simply remove the top part and walk away with
it, and leave the bottom where it was.

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Posted by Grant Erwin on May 30, 2008, 1:40 am
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Ignoramus9931 wrote:
>
>>
>>>
>>>>Around here, almost any welder or fab guy with a flat bed truck has one
>>>>on the tail or wants one.
>>>>The covered screw helps keep it covered from rain.
>>>
>>>How do they prevent them from getting stolen? Weld the ends of the
>>>bolts holding them to the bed?
>>>
>>>i
>>
>>That or something like it.
>>
>>Depending on how accessible the bottom of the bed is, you can often just use
>>carriage bolts from the top down.
>
>
> Keep in mind, also, that even if the bottom base is bolted down
> securely, the thief can simply remove the top part and walk away with
> it, and leave the bottom where it was.
>

Most vises I've seen on trucks aren't mounted to a swivel base.

Grant

Posted by Pete Keillor on May 30, 2008, 7:05 pm
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wrote:

>
>>> Around here, almost any welder or fab guy with a flat bed truck has one
>>> on the tail or wants one.
>>> The covered screw helps keep it covered from rain.
>>
>> How do they prevent them from getting stolen? Weld the ends of the
>> bolts holding them to the bed?
>>
>> i
>
>That or something like it.
>
>Depending on how accessible the bottom of the bed is, you can often just use
>carriage bolts from the top down.
>
>
On a couple of them I've bought in the past, I threaded a piece of 1"
plate cut to the base profile, welded it to the bench, then used epoxy
on the bolts to bolt the vise to the base. You could still get it
undone by heating the bolts until the epoxy breaks down, but boy, it
stinks.

Pete Keillor

Posted by Martin H. Eastburn on May 30, 2008, 10:01 pm
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Welding the bolt keeps a dumb or honest one from stealing it.
A cutting torch on 10% of all trucks around here from farms, ranches and
oilfield supports.... could burn the top off or nut off easily.

A guy with a Generator welder - as many oil types do - use a rod to burn...

But yes, lock tight or bent threads keep it on the back from the water holes
and bumps in the road.

This is still a place that doors are not locked often by the locals.
That is changing due to the invasion and now home invasion. But we have
the Castle law that helps protect us from 'them'.

Martin
Martin H. Eastburn
@ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net
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NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder
IHMSA and NRA Metallic Silhouette maker & member.
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Ignoramus9931 wrote:
>> Around here, almost any welder or fab guy with a flat bed truck has one
>> on the tail or wants one.
>> The covered screw helps keep it covered from rain.
>
> How do they prevent them from getting stolen? Weld the ends of the
> bolts holding them to the bed?
>
> i


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