View Single Post
  #9   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 12-03-2016, 23:52
Mk.32's Avatar
Mk.32 Mk.32 is offline
Registered User
AKA: Mark
FRC #2485 (W.A.R. Lords)
Team Role: Engineer
 
Join Date: Jan 2011
Rookie Year: 2011
Location: San Diego
Posts: 770
Mk.32 has much to be proud ofMk.32 has much to be proud ofMk.32 has much to be proud ofMk.32 has much to be proud ofMk.32 has much to be proud ofMk.32 has much to be proud ofMk.32 has much to be proud ofMk.32 has much to be proud ofMk.32 has much to be proud ofMk.32 has much to be proud of
Re: Glacern Machine Tools

Quote:
Originally Posted by scottandme View Post
Couple posts on practical machinist suggesting that they're sourcing the same vises as shars, not doing the final grinding/qa domestically as they used to suggest. A few people posted photos that made it look like they were just repainting the shars vise.

Other than that, lots of ugly business between them and an ex employee who went on to start orange vise.

The ones we had were good, but prices went up since then. Either go with the cheaper shars vise, or wait for a 25-30% coupon with free freight from enco and pick up a Kurt. Would recommend the latter.
Huh... I did not know that... will look into it...

The Orange Vices look interseting, hear good things about them would love to have one to play with. But for what what the team does it probably isn't necessary (over 1grand for a vise ow). I did notice a orange vice logo on the 254 robot...

Otherwise a used Kurt off of Ebay/CG would be a solid deal. We have a few Shars vices and they are well within spec for manual work on a FRC robot.
__________________
Engineering mentor: Team 2485: WARLords 2013-

Team President: Team 3647 2010-2013
Reply With Quote