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[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

99.99% finished.
All working. All assembled and ready to be placed into service.



I even got some history on the "Wee Beastie".

Just need 1 x 1/4unc C'sunk screw.

Now on order again.

 

[MattF]

Whitworth, though UNC will work.

What's the history?

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Reference Post No. 3127.

The new to me Woden Vice.



From this.
Yes It had a lot of original details on it. The sticker being one.
But it didn't work right and it would not fully open.

So.



Striped down and cleaned.
The main reason the vice was not working correctly was due to the bolt holding the threaded part for the adjusting screw was broken.



Here it is being removed, well attempting to be. I had to drill it out in the end. But I had enough thread to identify it as UNF.



In Paint, in this weather it takes a few days for the rattle can paint to fully dry.
Note to self. Must acquire another small oven.



Gold leaf attempt. from a few feet away it looks good. But up close it shows up the poor casting of the writing. Next time I may spend time with the dremmel cleaning and making sure the writing stands out.



There all done.

Fully working, it has a new home to go to.

 

[Dieselman 63]

Reference Post No. 3127.

The new to me Woden Vice.

View attachment 163766

From this.
Yes It had a lot of original details on it. The sticker being one.
But it didn't work right and it would not fully open.

So.

View attachment 163767

Striped down and cleaned.
The main reason the vice was not working correctly was due to the bolt holding the threaded part for the adjusting screw was broken.

View attachment 163768

Here it is being removed, well attempting to be. I had to drill it out in the end. But I had enough thread to identify it as UNF.

View attachment 163769

In Paint, in this weather it takes a few days for the rattle can paint to fully dry.
Note to self. Must acquire another small oven.

View attachment 163770

Gold leaf attempt. from a few feet away it looks good. But up close it shows up the poor casting of the writing. Next time I may spend time with the dremmel cleaning and making sure the writing stands out.

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There all done.

Fully working, it has a new home to go to.

Absolutely roast the lettering with a heat gun, hold it almost touching the cast for a few minutes, then just use a pick or a nail to free the old paint - it’s what I do. Here’s a Woden I’m doing atm, also a 186 but of the older style when they were cast in steel not iron like yours.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

@Dieselkid 63

The lettering is paint free, but badly cast.
The pours will draw the gold seize varnish in, Then pulls the gold leaf in.
Or it is so rough the gold only sticks to the raised bits.

 

[Hjoddi]

I could not resist, a smaal collection.
Record 35. Woden 190/7A, woden no5 (one of last woden í think) Ridgid junior, FZA, one smaal vice that í think is a chinees cope of somthing. I know I did not find the presice colors on the 3 English, but it was the closest I had available.

 

[Arc Tourist]

Nice collection .

I had a small hole similar to yours in the casting of one of my vices. T repair it, I hammered a small piece of lead into the hole and smoothed it flat with a file before painting; an easy fix.

 

[Hjoddi]

Nice collection .

I had a small hole similar to yours in the casting of one of my vices. T repair it, I hammered a small piece of lead into the hole and smoothed it flat with a file before painting; an easy fix.

Im not sure wich hole you mean, i tried to keep the repearing minimal, but still had to do some welding on the woden 190/7A it has seen some abuse in the past.

 

[Arc Tourist]

The hole shown on the unpainted vice in photo 7.

 

[Hjoddi]

The hole shown on the unpainted vice in photo 7.

Ok thanks, I intended to leve it as is it is used a lot, very handy for smal stuff.

 

[Dieselman 63]

Ok thanks, I intended to leve it as is it is used a lot, very handy for smal stuff.

I have the model up from yours. The decal wouldn’t last long on mine, it’s already covered in grime! Sadly went straight to work so the retro sheen is lost The area around the jaws should be bare metal. If you try and wire brush anything gripped in the jaws it’s going to take paint off too. See mine for a guide

These are from the 1930s and they’re far from the last offerings. The last Wodens are made by Record, I think the 186B range.

 

[Hjoddi]

Dieselkid 63 thank you

It was painted purposely like that, you can see on the Record 35 I did it correctly, I did not like to grind the scares off so I just painted the whole thing.
I see on yours that the colour is not far out. I had this decal made just for fun,like you said it will come of quickly, yours is what 6 inces?
Those vices are rear sight in Iceland, its the only one I seen my self.

 

[Dieselman 63]

Dieselkid 63 thank you

It was painted purposely like that, you can see on the Record 35 I did it correctly, I did not like to grind the scares off so I just painted the whole thing.
I see on yours that the colour is not far out. I had this decal made just for fun,like you said it will come of quickly, yours is what 6 inces?
Those vices are rear sight in Iceland, its the only one I seen my self.

It will chip, trust me. Mine is 5 1/4. The Woden vices were never interchangeable with the Record ones so you get some odd sizes.

 

[SteveB58]

Here is my Woden 186, found at a house clearance yard, bought with other stuff for £5. Just cleaned, greased and oiled. It'll go in the jaws of a larger vice for working on fiddly bits.

 

[Dieselman 63]

View attachment 164004 Here is my Woden 186, found at a house clearance yard, bought with other stuff for £5. Just cleaned, greased and oiled. It'll go in the jaws of a larger vice for working on fiddly bits.

Why not bolt it to a plate and weld a bar on to make a T shape? Much easier to hold in the vice, plus you aren’t exerting pressure on the castings, which can chip/crack. These were just grey iron after all.

 

[SteveB58]

Here is my Christmas present from 'erondoors. It is a leg vice 41" long with 5.25" jaws and what appears to be a replacement screw. The new screw has a a basic a55/60 degree thread not an acme or square one. The body is iron and appears to be hand made. and I would have expected the usual bell shaped thread box. The hinge has been replaced by a bolt and the spring is knackered, otherwise perfectly serviceable. I believe it could have come from a rail workshop judging by the bits and pieces that were also with it in the shop. It had been painted black previously two shades of green and had been primed with red lead so care will be needed when/if it is stripped.

 

[SteveB58]

Here is the new screw, as you can see it is far too small for the body of the vice.

 

[MBB]

I was given this for free by one of my neighbours Olympia 5"

 

[SteveB58]

Why not bolt it to a plate and weld a bar on to make a T shape? Much easier to hold in the vice, plus you aren’t exerting pressure on the castings, which can chip/crack. These were just grey iron after all.

Thanks for the interest and the suggestion. The vice is mounted on a stout piece of timber so there is no strain on the casting. Plus as it is I can use it in 4 orientations rather than 2.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

This arrived for me today.

This one I will be keeping.

Why do I have another Record 74?

Simple.

This one I got.



The cost of finding the missing parts and finding them was proving to be expensive, so I sold it on. I turned a nice profit on it.

The first one.




I didn't like it, but after I sold it on to a MIS member I realized I wanted one my self. So I was on the hunt.

Today my hunt is finished.

But what colour is the original or do I paint it they way I want?