Throw Back Thursday....Xuron Vise

[Hans Weilenmann]

Memory lane indeed, Byron.

The Xuron was the second vise I bought, and I tied on it, hard, for two/three years - before replacing it with an HMH Premium.

I bought my Xuron off Eric Leiser's The Rivergate store - at the time the price was $37,50. It is a bulletproof design, and an under-rated vise in today's world.

Cheers,
Hans W

[Allan]

Hans,

I saw this vise being used many years ago. Looked great then and looks great today. I must disagree with you however. If it is "an under-rated vise in today's world", it is because it hasn't been seen or used.

Allan

[Fontinalis]

Messy Desk Byron, glad to see I am not the only one this happens to.

[Fontinalis]

Hi Hans:

So if the vise was underated, then why did you replace it with an HMH Standard?

I use to be a Renzetti guy and sworn buy them until a few years back. Now I have kind of went back full circle and have two HMH vises,

1) HMH Standard -- My Permant Desk Set-up
2) HMH Spartan -- My road/travel vise

[Jayatwork]

I also have a Xuron. It's a nice simple design and it holds hooks securely. In its day, it was a high quality, functional vise. However, the inability to adjust the height or rotate the head limits its usefulness.

[Byron haugh]

The "deluxe" model Xuron did allow the jaws to turn 360 degrees. It is not the most functional feature, however.

Like Hans, I found it to be an excellent vise. However, I too sought vises with other attributes. I would sure recommend it even today to someone looking for a very good vise in the price range of under $150!!

[narcodog]

Yup, all single lever and one piece jaws. But the jaws are different sizes. If you look at the vices that Harry and Elsie used the are also different. There was a material clip also made for them but I have not been able to find on yet.

[Hans Weilenmann]

Hi Hans:

So if the vise was underated, then why did you replace it with an HMH Standard?

I replaced it with an HMH Premium, because that was the better vise (at over twice the price) - for me.

The HMH Premium in turn got replaced by the LAW Bench vise, because... well, you get the picture

Cheers,
Hans W

[Byron haugh]

Yup, all single lever and one piece jaws. But the jaws are different sizes. If you look at the vices that Harry and Elsie used the are also different. There was a material clip also made for them but I have not been able to find on yet.

Mine had the "spring" type material clip in a small circle which fits around the jaws. It is shown in the pictures above.

[Byron haugh]

I replaced it with an HMH Premium, because that was the better vise (at over twice the price) - for me.

The HMH Premium in turn got replaced by the LAW Bench vise, because... well, you get the picture

Cheers,
Hans W

Never spent much tying time with an offset rotary I take it?