Restoring an old vice

[migcurious]

Nice pictures and nice work I would have thought the vice was for scrap but you made the restoration look easy well done

 

[Screwdriver]

Nice pictures and nice work I would have thought the vice was for scrap but you made the restoration look easy well done

Thanks. Maybe I should make a video next time and teach you some new swearwords. I had to start making up new ones as I went along. Some choice moments include discovering a "mark on the casting" was actually a hole full of muck using a high pressure air line.

S.

 

[arther dailey]

Possibly a nieve question, where do you normally "find" a vice like this, as obviously hugely usefull tool for the workshop, now I do mean on a shoe string budget.
Thats a impressive refurb, well impressed. arther

 

[MattF]

Possibly a nieve question, where do you normally "find" a vice like this, as obviously hugely usefull tool for the workshop, now I do mean on a shoe string budget.

Keep an eye out on Ebay, Gumtree etc.

 

[migcurious]

Thanks. Maybe I should make a video next time and teach you some new swearwords. I had to start making up new ones as I went along. Some choice moments include discovering a "mark on the casting" was actually a hole full of muck using a high pressure air line.

S.

Ha ha I love the hardened grease that looks like a country I thought it was metal

 

[Screwdriver]

Possibly a nieve question, where do you normally "find" a vice like this, as obviously hugely usefull tool for the workshop, now I do mean on a shoe string budget.
Thats a impressive refurb, well impressed. arther

Thanks. Well, you got to kiss a fair few toads before you find your prince.

Its a gamble with the online game. All I can tell you is find out as much as you can about the item you want then chat up the seller. Always be prepared to say no.

S.

 

[CwazyWabbit]

You just post these photo's to tempt people by making them realise that there's more out there to collect than they thought, don't you.

Of course I'd love to know if there are any of either of them still in existence somewhere ....

 

[MattF]

Dread to think how much it'd sell for if one did crop up. It'd definitely be nice to see photo's of one if ever one does appear.

 

[CwazyWabbit]

I'm betting it would be between £200 and £500 unless it was sold without being properly listed ..... I've seen a standard 4" go for around the £200 mark

 

[migcurious]

In this example the electrolysis was a bit of an overkill, I was always going to wire brush it. It does help though and since I am already set up, I can bung it in the tank and leave it for a day or two while I get on with some other stuff. For me the key issue is usually to preserve the original vice as much as possible. On this occasion however I am probably going to mod it; fit a different type of locking lever, machine or grind off the ugliness and maybe even attach it to a rotating base.

I think this one is going to be my main welding vice so it will probably get alloy or copper jaws too.

S.

I looked again at this post still impressive the electrolysis really works well

 

[Screwdriver]

Must have forgotten to update this thread. Too busy trying to sell it I guess (it has been sold).

Not a bad look but it didn't quite turn out the shade I had been aiming at.

 

[winchman]

Nice job, I have a few vices my self but not one of these.

 

[Richard.]

Looks like you've done a nice job but of all the colours you could of gone with why did you go with the one colour that's gonna show every knock and scratch up like a sore thumb? When you sold it did it come with a free touch up kit

 

[Screwdriver]

Looks like you've done a nice job but of all the colours you could of gone with why did you go with the one colour that's gonna show every knock and scratch up like a sore thumb? When you sold it did it come with a free touch up kit

It needed a lot of work.

But the plain turned face looked horrible.

So after facing it and a fair bit of work with a hand file, I actually distressed it with a peen.

And the colour was a test of some super heavy duty epoxy (one part) paint I bought as a job lot. Its HARD!

I had to make a new retaining ring from a billet of cast iron and finished off the anvil to surface plate smooth

I won't be painting this one white.

Its next on the list. I will need to make a set of jaws for it. Copper jaws I think!

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Looks like you've done a nice job but of all the colours you could of gone with why did you go with the one colour that's gonna show every knock and scratch up like a sore thumb? When you sold it did it come with a free touch up kit

It put me in mind of this.......

 

[Richard.]

It's funny how we see images and picture something entirely different. I looked at it and thought.........
Black n white koi. Dunno why.

 

[Screwdriver]

I think it needs a splodge of red.

 

[CwazyWabbit]

Its next on the list. I will need to make a set of jaws for it. Copper jaws I think!

Nice a real early pre-anvil version

 

[6ply]

@Screwdriver thread resurrection time

I have one of these and the thing is rusted solid. Retaining ring / collar won't shift. Any idea other than soak / heat / hammer?

 

[arther dailey]

It needed a lot of work.

But the plain turned face looked horrible.

So after facing it and a fair bit of work with a hand file, I actually distressed it with a peen.

And the colour was a test of some super heavy duty epoxy (one part) paint I bought as a job lot. Its HARD!

I had to make a new retaining ring from a billet of cast iron and finished off the anvil to surface plate smooth

I won't be painting this one white.

Its next on the list. I will need to make a set of jaws for it. Copper jaws I think!

thankfully !