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I don't suppose you have the handle for the stand?
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We understand there is a vice problem amongst your species, and are here to clean it up.
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Not my species. I am her to watch them.We understand there is a vice problem amongst your species, and are here to clean it up.
The problem is that there are several shades of record blue, depending on age & which paint supplier they were using at the time! It's supposed to be 'Roundel Blue' as used on the roundels on Spitfire wings, I painted one vice that colour & it it doesn't match the colour of any record vice I seen.
I have one vice I inherited from my uncle who owned it from new so I knew it had never been painted. I took it to a paint shop & got them to mix me up a litre matched to the unfaded paint under the slide. It started with a Mercedes colour, mittelmeer blau & they added a few different tints until they had a near perfect match.
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One thing about a vice, is that it can always be stripped and repainted with what ever you want, or not. I have a vice from 1946 that shows no sign of ever being painted, and has been in the family since the late 1950's.
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I've been giving my Record No.6 some love, the moving jaw sticks closed then jumps on the spring. I've had it getting on for ten years so maybe overdue a clean.
I cracked the corner behind the jaw insert ages ago, I filled it with Tigerseal which was still stuck very well but I can do it properly now. Gave it a good key, covered it with metal filled epoxy, and filed it back flush.
Looks pretty good I think. The painted bits were scrubbed with Muc-off, I'd quite like to get rid of all that silver-blue but I don't want to damage the original blue underneath, plus I can't be bothered. If anyone asks I'll say it's Arctic camo.
I cracked the corner behind the jaw insert ages ago, I filled it with Tigerseal which was still stuck very well but I can do it properly now. Gave it a good key, covered it with metal filled epoxy, and filed it back flush.
Looks pretty good I think. The painted bits were scrubbed with Muc-off, I'd quite like to get rid of all that silver-blue but I don't want to damage the original blue underneath, plus I can't be bothered. If anyone asks I'll say it's Arctic camo.
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Up to the formation of the RAF it was a standard Blue Record used.
In the 1930's and up tp 1949ish. Itw as what was avaialable at the time The RAF blue was never a constant, as it was a plan, a failed one to see if the other side were flying captured allied planes.
After WW2 it was again what was avaialble. what market it was going to and how cheap it could be made.
Record blue, like Stanley orange was never constant. It varied with models, makes and years. With Stanley it used to be a way of pinning the year of build down on their drills.
Same with Woden.
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In addition to the above.
Same with battleship and top coat grey were different shades Fromm Buzz to Pompy and up North. Ni grey was again different.
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Jaw inserts weren't fitted in the last post because they were still cooling...I've been giving my Record No.6 some love, the moving jaw sticks closed then jumps on the spring. I've had it getting on for ten years so maybe overdue a clean.
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I cracked the corner behind the jaw insert ages ago, I filled it with Tigerseal which was still stuck very well but I can do it properly now. Gave it a good key, covered it with metal filled epoxy, and filed it back flush.
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Looks pretty good I think. The painted bits were scrubbed with Muc-off, I'd quite like to get rid of all that silver-blue but I don't want to damage the original blue underneath, plus I can't be bothered. If anyone asks I'll say it's Arctic camo.
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I made copper faced brass jaws a few years ago, I found some brass bar and it didn't occur to me brass would make a crap soft jaw until I'd already I'd already cut it to size so I just soldered copper to the face of them, machined it flat and called it good. I got about a year out of them before the copper peeled off and I've been putting up with "solder jaws" ever since. It's about time I refaced them, this time starting with 22mm copper pipe for it's thicker wall than the 15mm I used before, and I didn't bother machining it flat, they're flat enough.
I fluxed between the copper and brass, and greased between the two sheets of copper so the solder won't try to flow in and stick them together. It takes bloody ages to heat it up with my little torch but I got there eventually. Cleaned up and filed to size they look pretty good, hopefully they'll last a bit longer this time.
Yes I could just buy some copper bar, but this is free.
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That is magnificent.
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I'd always understood that the grey would change depending upon where the ship was. Mediterranean grey was different to that of the home grey. Ships were continually painted to keep the crew busy, 5 metres behind the matelot with the paintbrush was Jack with a chipping hammer knocking it off.
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Well you didn't want to be inboard during a refit while they were chipping the paint off. The noise was visceral and not something I miss from my time on my tools.
BTW Buzz? Devonport? If so I'd always understood that to be Guz.
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Damm auto corrupted
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Last weekj end I was donnated a large amount of workshop stuff.
Today I had to sort sorting the good from the bad.
But in one of the box's was thus nice odd vice. When I can I will be googlin the information on it.
In the mean time here she is.
Today I had to sort sorting the good from the bad.
But in one of the box's was thus nice odd vice. When I can I will be googlin the information on it.
In the mean time here she is.
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Looks cast light alloy?
Usually not a good choice for vices, but if thick section or light duty OK. Jaws of this one could be useful for the chisel handles I'm making right now.
Slightly off-topic, I like the apprentice-piece vices, - usually bog standard but well made drill/machine vices, which I pass by, but sometimes more adventurous (swivel etc) and sometimes alu or zinc with special jaws and sometimes woodwork or bench types of like alloy - anyone else have similar?
I must say also a top contender for worst vice I ever had was by Cintride of Bakewell - swivel thin-walled alu.
