🔥 Yost 855 D2 Industrial Grade Reversible: Uncompromising Power and Versatility Review

Good vise for the price. Do yourself a favor, take it apart and replace the light oil with a good quality lubricant on the screw and guides and lubricate the connection between the mounting flange and the base. It is also much easier to drill for mounting when the base is removed. Useful advice. If you ever plan to flip or swap out the jaw inserts, remove them immediately. The button screws appear to have been gorilla tightened and have a sticky substance to secure the threads. One was so tight

I bought this vise to replace a 4 1/2 vise 51862 that broke on me. You could buy a new base to replace the broken one. I broke the master with my own actions trying to remove a rusted 90 degree elbow that had been sitting on a 1 1/2 piece of black pipe for many years. I used a pipe wrench and a 4 foot piece of pipe on the pipe wrench for leverage. This would not have moved the fitting, but instead fractured the base at a lug screwed into the master's vise. Anyway, this new Yost 5 1/2 vise is…

The Yost 855-D2 Vise meets my expectations considering the retail price. It has both advantages and disadvantages which I will explain. First, these are high-end, entry-level budget vises imported from China. To make a vise so cheap and still profitable for the company, some rough edges have to be trimmed. Whether these cost-cutting measures impact durability or functionality is the key question. In this case, for the average home workshop, this most likely will not affect the user experience…