Be careful what bits you blast, you don't want to blast any part that you are going to leave unpainted like the slides as it would leave a rough finish & look awful.
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Be careful what bits you blast, you don't want to blast any part that you are going to leave unpainted like the slides as it would leave a rough finish & look awful.
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Why blast it at all? There are less aggressive ways to remove paint. I wouldn't even remove the paint, rub down with 0000 steel wool , polish with micro mesh, oil it and bolt it to the bench.
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Arrived to day.
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Key ring?
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Bloody big keys then.
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Key to my workshop, little over 120mm. Bought a large lock as I have a tendency to loose or misplace keys. Management said, "You'll never loose that." I made this one as I lost the original.
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... but he made two ...
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Then Lost two,
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Only one key lost. Could be worse, I might have lost the door!
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Just got an email with a couple of photos from friend overseas that was looking for a vintage vise. He found this one for $35.oo on ebay, apparently from the 1940's, it was originally sold by "Montgomery Wards".
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From this.
The split pin was truly stuck in place.
Boiled in Citric acid, then given a hard wire brushing.
The thread was reformed with a thread file.
Working faces polished.
Finished with a wax/oil mix applied to the metal, after it was warmed in the oven.
The split pin was truly stuck in place.
Boiled in Citric acid, then given a hard wire brushing.
The thread was reformed with a thread file.
Working faces polished.
Finished with a wax/oil mix applied to the metal, after it was warmed in the oven.
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that type of logo looks Chinese (older, ie often better, type) but the vice looks European
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Some bracing has become unglued in the body of one of my favourite guitars. Decided to set it up in the parrot vice. It's just screwed directly to the bench and once tightened it goes nowhere.While in this position I'll dress the frets and oil the fret board. When I've finished I'll glue dowels in the holes and sand flat.
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The vintage Will-Burt Versa Vise, and Columbian Gyro-Vice were the for runners of the currently available Parrot vice; a very useful design. They were the only model's on the work benches at the NRA school of gunsmithing in Susanville California.
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I got this 8" ice a year ago. My plan was to restore it and pass it on.
I ended up laoning to a car club. Who now has gone belly up. So it came home.
So I fixed it.
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Nice tidy-up and paint of a v big vice.
Interested in where the Eclipse of the EV name came from - at the opposite end of the scale there is a Moore and Wright instrument makers' vice of the same name which goes for well over £100 on eb - jaw size about 1in.
Eclipse was the brand on many Sheffield made hacksaws, blades and then other tools - I believe taken over by James Neill, who also owned M&W -- did the name get sold in the same way as Record?
