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[QUOTE="The finish is a mix of beeswax, linseed oil & graphite powder, with pure/gum turpentine as the solvent. Good to see/know it has a good home where it'll be used. 
It was a crime for it to be sat here unused, when you have need of it.[/QUOTE]
I made a batch today, learnt a few things..
For a start I should have flaked the beeswax to dissolve easier in the gum turps.
Also should have added the wax flakes gradually to the turps to dissolve rather than all the lumps of half a little bar to some turps as it reaches a saturation point and won't dissolve anymore unless I kept adding turps..had a fan heater on the go near the jars so it did speed things up a bit.
I did a guess on the amount of boiled linseed and added the graphite until happy with the juice being a gun metal colour.
Applied with a cloth to various items, can really tell how it will defend against rust and its a nice non sticky finish
It was a crime for it to be sat here unused, when you have need of it.[/QUOTE]I made a batch today, learnt a few things..
For a start I should have flaked the beeswax to dissolve easier in the gum turps.
Also should have added the wax flakes gradually to the turps to dissolve rather than all the lumps of half a little bar to some turps as it reaches a saturation point and won't dissolve anymore unless I kept adding turps..had a fan heater on the go near the jars so it did speed things up a bit.
I did a guess on the amount of boiled linseed and added the graphite until happy with the juice being a gun metal colour.
Applied with a cloth to various items, can really tell how it will defend against rust and its a nice non sticky finish
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Think the Record 49 probably wins the widest jaws on a bench vice (excluding woodworking obviously)
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After seeing Dannys wonderful examples of Handy vices, I thought I'd add a picture I've shared before of the 4 different ages/designs of Perfect vises that I have.
Bottom I believe to be the oldest, top one still two part static but newer style slide, 2nd from top now single part static with jaw screws threaded into vise body, 3rd from top the last revision with jaw screws now threaded into the jaw faces.
Bottom I believe to be the oldest, top one still two part static but newer style slide, 2nd from top now single part static with jaw screws threaded into vise body, 3rd from top the last revision with jaw screws now threaded into the jaw faces.
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I made a batch today, learnt a few things..
For a start I should have flaked the beeswax to dissolve easier in the gum turps.
Also should have added the wax flakes gradually to the turps to dissolve rather than all the lumps of half a little bar to some turps as it reaches a saturation point and won't dissolve anymore unless I kept adding turps..had a fan heater on the go near the jars so it did speed things up a bit.
I did a guess on the amount of boiled linseed and added the graphite until happy with the juice being a gun metal colour.
Applied with a cloth to various items, can really tell how it will defend against rust and its a nice non sticky finish
A pan of simmering water, & sit the jar in the water, is the easiest way to dissolve the wax. Chunks take a while regardless though. I ordered some beeswax beads the other week specifically to overcome that, & speed the melting up. Grating beeswax off a block is no fun.
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I do like a good pattern makers vise, I wonder if anyone here has a Emmert.
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Yes - wabbit, you're right -- good try Fortis, steel and all, but that 49 is bigger and very heavy - think my Parkinson Perfect 9 is big enough for me and I won't be making a vice tree with just the one biggish vice - but I just might make a tree with size 00, 0 - [might even put them in a glass tank of formaldehyde - do you have a London gallery lined up for us, Maker?] - watch this space.
Have you read all the posts yet, Vono, only 200+ pages - good for a lockdown winter's evening or two. (at least it's not 4000 pages of US garagejournal vice-show thread, at which point you'll know you're really hooked) - I have sworn not to buy any more US vices (did stumble upon a Parker with a swing jaw, tho)
Have you read all the posts yet, Vono, only 200+ pages - good for a lockdown winter's evening or two. (at least it's not 4000 pages of US garagejournal vice-show thread, at which point you'll know you're really hooked) - I have sworn not to buy any more US vices (did stumble upon a Parker with a swing jaw, tho)
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I wish, they fetch a tidy sum on eBay and normally come in from America. While working in Portsmouth Dockyard I had friends in the pattern shop. Each bench had two Emmert vices, so about 30 in all. The foundry and pattern shop closed in 1982, what happened to the contents I don't know. But I expect it all went for scrap.
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It all ended up in Ponds scrap yard. They sold a lot on.
Some parts went to New Zealand Canada.
Some was sold at Machinery auctions. Most was sold to ex MOD sites selling MOD stores.
There was a Lot at site near Corsham in Wiltshire.
Emmerts are a cool thing, the articulation on them is crazy. My Vono doesn't rotate, although the curved slide might suggest it.
Yes danny I've been going back through this thread, some fascinating stuff on here for a vice obsessive !
I'm still currently deliberating over getting another, I've decided I need a big engineer/fitter type one. Can't decide over steel vs Iron (it won't get a lot of hammer), it's more the aesthetics i'm looking at really, current shortlist is Parkinson F, Fortis or Ajax, however it changes daily
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So many vices to choose from & so little space to put them
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Yes danny I've been going back through this thread, some fascinating stuff on here for a vice obsessive !
I'm still currently deliberating over getting another, I've decided I need a big engineer/fitter type one. Can't decide over steel vs Iron (it won't get a lot of hammer), it's more the aesthetics i'm looking at really, current shortlist is Parkinson F, Fortis or Ajax, however it changes daily
!So many vices to choose from & so little space to put them
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Been a while since I've seen that photo.
Did you ever get round to assembling/restoring/using the display stand?
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Do you mean John Pounds scrapyard?
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Hello, and welcome to the forum, and the vice/vise addicts corner.
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John Pounds scrapyard, used to play in there as a kid and fish off the subs. https://www.facebook.com/Poundsscrapyard/
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I keep finding myself wandering into the garage & planning where I can put another
Seek professional help...NOW!!
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Seek professional help...NOW!!
Yes, there are professional buyers out there to help you get another vice.
