Vintage Littco No 112 Swivel Bench Vise w/ Anvil Littlestown Hdwe & Fdry Co USA | eBay I dont know if this listing will stay up, but does anyone know about the pipe clamps on this litco? I already bought it, but figured I would ask here. Thanks
Seemed like a good deal. I've been watching vises for a month or so. I've broken the last three bumper vises on my truck within days of getting them. Getting a long one for free this spring
I have a Littco too, but the pipe clamps are cast in under the jaw. For light duty work at best. Those look like drop-in's and can help with the date of manufacturing.
Thanks. I never seen them before. I wanted a little vise that wouldn't shatter. Looks like I need to make a handle is all.
Can't tell you much (nothing) but I see the Littlestown vices pop up regularly here on CL and FB. Littlestown is about 20 minutes from me. Looks like some cool history if you Google the co. They made grenades during WWII.
I did late last night. Really neat history. I see that people like to clean them up and paint them now. Good idea. It just took a while to find one on ebay that didn't include big money for shipping. Twenty five bucks with free shipping. Cant lose much I guess. I just recently started looking on ebay again after ten years. Alot of fees for the seller now days. I dont see how the guy that sold me this vise made any money after 10 percent fee and free shipping
Didn't know that. I don't see myself selling anything on any platforms. Kinda like mafia aren't they?
It gets you out to a wide audience. I sound some lights recently, like wall mount porch lights. They were made in USA and apparently a popular brand. I thought they were uglyish. I got them when I was clearing out a warehouse years ago. I sold one on eBay for good money, and thought I had more but never found them. When my water heater went out I found them in that closet. I don't have Facebook and live in a more rural area without major towns within an hour. Would they have even sold in this area , probably but not sure I would have come close to the price I got. Sure I pay a commission and shave to package to ship but I sold them pretty quick and got $60 a piece for them. The one thing that I think is wrong is that you pay the commission on shipping price as well. So even with an eBay discount when you ship you get hit with a commission fee, and unless your discount on shipping is greater than 10% you went in the hole on that. But they had to do that cause I remember all the people pushing Chinese tools and really all kinds of stuff but I noticed it from them more. What they would do is sell you an extension cord for $0.01 but charge you $19.99 to ship it. So they didn't pay any commission on the shipping they only paid eBay a commission on the purchase price and hot to keep 100% of ship price. In this case I'm talking about maybe a cheap 16ga 25-50 cord. Something that is not expensive so in this case was like a 7-10 cord and the rest was really shipping or profit. I don't want you thinking those was some expensive cord for $20. But honestly I saw it on all kinds of stuff. Coffee maker , cordless drill a you name it.
Ok. That makes more sense now. I was wondering why someone would sell something for little, then have shipping and handling so high. I lived in Cross, SC for a number of years. Old barn finds I would have to take into Charleston to make any money on. Out in Cross, nobody would give you near the price, because they still lived the country lifestyle. For instance, I could not get more than 10 dollars a cut and wrapped rabbit. But, if I headed inland to the coast I would get twenty dollars at least.
