It's odd that HeavyMetal is shown as the last poster on this thread, and I even got a notification about it, but the post doesn't appear.
What issues did you have with the Shars vises? My oldest one is four or five years old, it still works like the day I got it. I did have to adjust the preload on one as the set screw on the nut was loose from the factory. It took about 1 minute to fix that up.
Edit: me posting fixed it. There were only 9 pages when I posted, but it rolled over and created the 10th once I posted. I checked on three browser.,s