If it's going to be used & abused don't bother painting it. If you want to paint it don't use any primer, just apply the blue straight onto the vice. It's cast iron & it doesn't tend to rust if it's inside. If you put primer on & the paint gets chipped it will stick out a mile. I used grey primer on my record no 6 before the blue and after some use it looks awful with grey patches showing where the blue has been chipped.
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If it's going to be used & abused don't bother painting it. If you want to paint it don't use any primer, just apply the blue straight onto the vice. It's cast iron & it doesn't tend to rust if it's inside. If you put primer on & the paint gets chipped it will stick out a mile. I used grey primer on my record no 6 before the blue and after some use it looks awful with grey patches showing where the blue has been chipped.
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Also, the jaw surrounds are meant to be left bare metal. They will chip in no time at all if painted.
A while ago I bought a box of contents in an auction & this vice was buried in it. The swivel base wasn't fitted but some more digging found all the pieces. 
The tommy bar & the threaded spindle were bent & the threads on the nut were worn. I got the spindle straightened & I cured the worn nut by getting it red hot & squeezing it in a vice to make it narrower, with the spindle fitted to stop me going too far!
It was finished with a wipe over of gear oil & then polished off. Everything now works as it should, it will be going back into the auction next week as it's too small to be any use to me!
The tommy bar & the threaded spindle were bent & the threads on the nut were worn. I got the spindle straightened & I cured the worn nut by getting it red hot & squeezing it in a vice to make it narrower, with the spindle fitted to stop me going too far!
It was finished with a wipe over of gear oil & then polished off. Everything now works as it should, it will be going back into the auction next week as it's too small to be any use to me!
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A while ago I bought a box of contents in an auction & this vice was buried in it. The swivel base wasn't fitted but some more digging found all the pieces.
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The tommy bar & the threaded spindle were bent & the threads on the nut were worn. I got the spindle straightened & I cured the worn nut by getting it red hot & squeezing it in a vice to make it narrower, with the spindle fitted to stop me going too far!
It was finished with a wipe over of gear oil & then polished off. Everything now works as it should, it will be going back into the auction next week as it's too small to be any use to me!
GS is the German CE I think
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Pretty sure it's an Aldi one. I think My cousin has one.
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local delicacy in middlesbrough them paramos
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This is my record no 4. No idea how old it is, its made in England. I mounted it at 45° out from the corner of my bench so there's lots of room underneath it for holding awkward shaped stuff like exhaust sections. The light I picked up at a carboot sale it's great for saving the eyes trying to see scribe lines and such.
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Looks like a hospital reading light.
You can never have enough light over a workbench, particularly if you're doing fiddly jobs.
You can never have enough light over a workbench, particularly if you're doing fiddly jobs.
Here it is finished, i did the best i cud with the jaw screws but i will change them for new hex allen key ones as the existing ones are slightly bent so wen tightening them they lift the jaw . Already did on my other vices
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They never made a No 26, but they did make 27 and 28. I have heard mentions of a Record No.26 a few times now, both in ads and in one of DoubleBoost's videos, but It's just in peoples' heads, they never made it. I posted about my 28 on page 114 and 115.
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Just noticed it almost matches your car .
