Post vise

While I don't have a post vise, I use 3/4" rubber hose cut open as bumpers on my 4" bench vise. They work quite well. If I need something softer I'll wrap whatever I'm working on in a paper towel or similar and then put it in the vise.
 
Hey, that's a good idea. I might end up doing that for my big vise if I need soft jaws.

I fixed up an old Fuller 4" bench vise a few years ago. It was ROUGH. I literally found it buried in mud behind my (52' Ford) truck behind a carport coming off a barn. Like, right were the gutter spills out. It had been sitting there for a couple decades. 1990s at the latest, more like it'd been there since the 70s.... Anyway, rough. Instead of making new metal jaws, I took a plastic cutting board - one of those white plastic ones, maybe 3/8" or a little thicker - and made the jaws out of that. I LOVE it. First example that comes to mind is working on a carburetor. You can clamp right on machined surfaces and not worry about scratching or denting them. Because of that vises proximity to my welders, I do tend to get the plastic jaws kinda... "melty". It's amazing how well they've held up. If I remember, I'll post a picture. When they get too boogered up I true them up with a flap wheel on the angle grinder.
 
The thing I like about the rubber hose, is on my vise at least, they hold on their own when the vise is both open and closed. The just slip over
 
Right. I have a 3 1/2" Craftsman swivel base that I mounted to a plate with a shank for the hardie hole in my vise (feel free to take the idea - I use my all the time) and I bet a 3/4" hose would fit great on those vise jaws.

I'm going to need to find some big hose for my big vise, though - maybe some sort of discharge hose from a big pump? No clue.
 
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