RUSH55
SILVER Star
One of my questions as well was where Fireball was doing the casting, hoping it wasn’t China. Foundries I’ve dealt with specialize in bronze work (fine art) which is a bit of a different animal, and even dealing with them can be tricky. And yes, even most of those facilities are repurposed old buildings (churches, meat processors, etc..), dark, dingy, and dirty.
I think what interested me the most in the build of his original welded mild steel vise is that he was able to produce like 18,000 psi of clamping force with the handle alone where most of the other production vises could only muster 5,000 - 8,000. I’m not sure why you’d need a whole lot more than that, but a guy was able to squeeze 33,000 out of the new Fireball vise using only the handle (and his ability to deadlift somewhere in the 500 pound range). That is a ton of clamping power.
I think what interested me the most in the build of his original welded mild steel vise is that he was able to produce like 18,000 psi of clamping force with the handle alone where most of the other production vises could only muster 5,000 - 8,000. I’m not sure why you’d need a whole lot more than that, but a guy was able to squeeze 33,000 out of the new Fireball vise using only the handle (and his ability to deadlift somewhere in the 500 pound range). That is a ton of clamping power.
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