Fobco star bench drill

[Michael CallaghanParticipant @michaelcallaghan68621]

Hi chaps, I just purchased a nice little fobco star bench drill. I would like to find a suitable vice for it that as a low profile. I have seen some awful far east made items that are next to useless. Can anyone point me in the right direction. Thanks.

[Chris CrewParticipant @chriscrew66644]

I think that you will be very restricted in your choice of available items not made in the far-east if you choose to buy new. Personally, I have no objection to far-eastern products because a) they mostly do exactly what they say on the tin and b) they are all I can afford or are prepared to spend on a hobby. I don’t know if they are still available, but a few years ago there was a nice little 4″ machine vice marketed under the Jones & Shipman brand. I bought one at the time and it is very good but I am pretty certain that it was manufactured in Taiwan and not Leicester. I also have an 8″ four-jaw self-centring chuck made in China by San-Ou. It was so cheap I thought at first it may have been a scam so I wasn’t expecting much but I cannot fault the quality and accuracy which, IMO, is excellent. Even the old Nottingham Myford did not dismiss far-eastern products and marketed Taiwanese milling and drilling machines under their own brand.

[Nicholas FarrParticipant @nicholasfarr14254]

Hi Michael, maybe one of these tilting jaw vices would be OK https://www.chronos.ltd.uk/product-category/milling-drilling-vices-jaws/tilting-jaw-drill-press-vices/

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