I welded the cracked stub on the bracket below which was the last repair.
Really happy how it turned out. Fantastic vice and it feels like truly mine after this refurb.
Its almost too long nice to use but it will be bolted to this bench in the coming days and it will be put to work. Albeit I don't abuse my tools and it's easy to throw a clean rag over it if I'm going to be burning out an old rubber bushing or something really dirty like that.
Nice job, mine was probably not as abused as yours when I got it and I went with hammerite green.
I do a lot of wire brushing with an angle grinder and it was slowly destroying the jaws and paintwork. The first thing I made were some protection for the jaws out of some scrap stainless.