Talk:Vise

Capacity of Vise
How are Vise clasified for Capacity 203.199.140.143 10:26, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Maximum jaw width and jaw depth are the two most common ratings. Maximum clamping pressure and jaw stroke are sometimes specified on high end automatic vises. - Toastydeath 17:33, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

dovetailed, long-barreled, unbreakable nut
"Smooth action provided by dovetailed, long-barreled, unbreakable nut"

this description is used for a Record No.5 Vice, it may be useful if i knew what it meant. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.64.171.31 (talk) 10:37, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Rotary table
The picture of the red engineer's (machinist's) vise was labeled as a rotary table. This is incorrect. Rotary tables have a separate knob that allows the user to rotate the vise (or a mounting plate for chucks) in precise increments. The vise pictured might be accurate to half a degree at best. Over several inches this would introduce an unacceptable amount of error. If anyone has a better caption than the one that I have, feel free to change it, just keep in mind that calling it a rotary table is misleading. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.199.215.250 (talk) 03:11, 12 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for fixing that. You are 100% correct. It's been a few years since I read this article. The caption change to "rotary table" happened in 2010 but was incorrect for the reason you mention. One would have to call that baseplate a "rotary baseplate" or some term along those lines—"rotary table" has a specific meaning, as you pointed out. — ¾-10 15:22, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

Queries
What is shihiz metal? I can find no other reference. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.242.238.3 (talk) 10:40, 11 May 2015 (UTC)


 * It was just some asshole's idea of vandalism. I reverted it. Thanks for bringing it to notice. — ¾-10 01:35, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

Spelling
I don't want to immediately alter the [A] cross reference without knowing who put it there or why! It is clearly incorrect (or just badly worded) as I have consulted all editions of the Concise Oxford since the 4th in 1951 up to the current 12th, the Oxford dictionary of English, and the last two editions of the Shorter Oxford and ALL of them use VICE as the British English spelling with only a passing reference to US usage of VISE. DickyP (talk) 11:03, 5 July 2015 (UTC)


 * I found that Wikipedia's main coverage of this topic gibes with the above comment by User:DickyP about the -c- spelling being well represented in UK and Commonwealth spelling. This article should not attempt to fork coverage of the topic (it should just point users to the main coverage, and if anyone wants to expand the latter, they can do it there). I linked it. — ¾-10 21:53, 6 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Was just about to give an angry retort to User:Three-quarter-ten when I stopped and looked up the word gibe in the Oxford - discovered gibe means to agree in American, whereas it means to sneer or scoff at in British English(I just love language)! DickyP (talk) 08:44, 7 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Well I'll be! One never knows all the American and British English differences! I think I'll say "accords with" in future. Thanks for the Oxford lookups. — ¾-10 00:40, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

Woodworking vices
Please see this discussion about splitting out Vises section from the Workbench (woodworking) article. Thanks! Jauerbackdude?/dude. 14:53, 5 April 2018 (UTC)