Sorry everybody, just sending a test email through as my posting to the list was bouncing back as not deliverable last night.
Hetchinspete
>
> From: "flying_scot" <flying_scot@btopenworld.com>
> Date: 2003/12/20 Sat AM 02:36:30 EST
> To: "Dennis Young" <mail@woodworkingboy.com>,
> <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>, <OROBOYZ@aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [CR]Vises
>
> Dennis wrote aboute Record vices ;
>
> > Aerodynamic design too, not clunky like the Records.
>
> It's engineering not art (where have I heard that before) ? sorry that
> should be science - mind you aerodynamics lets the hot air flow past quicker
> !
>
> and;
>
> > Do Records have interchangable jaws for switching betwen metal and wood?
>
> Yes - even in the smallest sized vices.... And as engineering apprentices we
> got taught how to (a) make your own 'soft' jaws in brass, alloy (aluminium)
> and in fibrous block material and (b) how to shim up and out all that wear.
>
> And the biggest vice crimes Don Johnson never investigated ?
>
> Using the jaws as anvils (when there's a perfectly good anvil provided at
> the back), overtightening - having once worked with an idiot who prided
> himself at having busted the jaws twice... and lastly, forgetting to
> lubricate the slides and screw thread.....
>
> Classic content ?
>
> How much more classic do they get ?
>
> Best regards for the season,
>
> Bob Reid
> Stonehaven
> Scotland