arther dailey
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oh by the way thats on his bench with tiny bolts..and way to clean to be mine anyways eh
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I finished doing up my rusty seized Record 34 vice which I bought for about £10 in a car boot sale about 20 years ago and have just got around to posting the pics as I am pretty pleased with the result. I did consider painting it in Record Blue but finally tarted it up with Hammerite. Fabulous to use. Real quality.
Credit for restoration process goes to My Tiny Vice
Credit for restoration process goes to My Tiny Vice
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All far too clean and tidy.
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Nice refurbishment,
and welcome to the forum.
arther dailey
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Must admit my preferance is in its original condition but mechanically refurbed , or if needs must original colours ,saying that though if your using it hey ho what ever you fancy or have on the shelf makes sence as long as its saved/used eh
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Excellent and funky!
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Great work to it, I got a kick out of the colours as they are my county colours of red and green!
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Must admit my preferance is in its original condition but mechanically refurbed , or if needs must original colours ,saying that though if your using it hey ho what ever you fancy or have on the shelf makes sence as long as its saved/used eh
C'mon. Dark green & red is a classic combo. Anything looks sexy with that colour pairing.
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agree , more dark green and cream myself, or admiralty grey with red oxide internal..C'mon. Dark green & red is a classic combo. Anything looks sexy with that colour pairing.
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Or crab fat gray and deck green.
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Interestingly it has 34 P cast in - quite rightly you've not highlighted the "P" as this, I think, refers to "Plain screw", ie not the buttress quick release which yours undoubtedly is.
Shame MyTinyVice has stopped posting. At the start of lockdown, I watched loads of his videos and really enjoyed them. So it goes.
Edit: My Tiny Shed. Sorry.
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Not blue unction then?
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They all have P cast in them, it was then ground out on assembly if a QR version. That vice just has had a poor job of grinding hence some of it still visible
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You know, that, again, reminds of a girlfriend I had once!
She was also not good at “grinding” and I had to swop her for a Swedish trainee who had excellent experience in a Swedish steel works with high alloy steels.
That worked well until she arrived one day with Swedish pickled herring and gerkhins for her lunch…. frightened the life out of me She sucked each cornichon and then bit it in half! Sheesh - I was gone in seconds…
Ps. I think I’m in trouble with admin now!! Or Danny …
eeeeeeeek!That will teach me to post whilst on hols in France after a couple of bourbons!!!
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You know, that, again, reminds of a girlfriend I had once!
She was also not good at “grinding” and I had to swop her for a Swedish trainee who had excellent experience in a Swedish steel works with high alloy steels.
That worked well until she arrived one day with Swedish pickled herring and gerkhins for her lunch…. frightened the life out of me She sucked each cornichon and then bit it in half! Sheesh - I was gone in seconds…
Ps. I think I’m in trouble with admin now!! Or Danny …
That will teach me to post whilst on hols in France after a couple of bourbons!!!
Hej M'sieur O, It's not me with that flamethrower -
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Record 112, new to me. Hasn’t had the P knocked off the casting despite being QR. Ought to be a good one for restoration.
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Wow. Just looked back at this. I did not expect to see any comments! Thanks for all the remarks.
On colour, I did seriously consider Paragon paint...
However, as I was going to use it rather than show it or sell it and I really don't like the colour, I decided to go with green/red.
On the 'P' it is almost ground out, but the lighting in the first pictures has made it stand out more than it really does. I think all of the moving jaws were cast with a 'P' and they just ground it out as needed.
Here it is bolted to the floor and in use with some soft jaws I made from shoe heel rubber and and an aluminium shroud made from an old roller window blind cover. I also have a longer pair with no rubber which I use when I am [stick] welding to protect the vice from sputter.
I thought I'd mention the jaw screws as they were a right job to get out. I made an adaptor out of a couple of nuts for my impact driver and several bits out of stainless washers (these are the used, twisted ones) and whacked the screws until I won. One screw broke but I managed to tease the broken part out. The other three came out whole but as you can see, not really useable.
Interestingly for the time/place of production and the rest of the threads, the screws are 8mmx1.0mm screws rather than imperial. I got some new ones turned up
I believe I read somewhere that the date of the vice is between 1945 and 1960 - it has no patent or model/design number on it on the left hand side which I have seen on some pictures of record 34s. If anyone has any more information on dates or how I can date it I would be very grateful!
On colour, I did seriously consider Paragon paint...
However, as I was going to use it rather than show it or sell it and I really don't like the colour, I decided to go with green/red.
On the 'P' it is almost ground out, but the lighting in the first pictures has made it stand out more than it really does. I think all of the moving jaws were cast with a 'P' and they just ground it out as needed.
Here it is bolted to the floor and in use with some soft jaws I made from shoe heel rubber and and an aluminium shroud made from an old roller window blind cover. I also have a longer pair with no rubber which I use when I am [stick] welding to protect the vice from sputter.
I thought I'd mention the jaw screws as they were a right job to get out. I made an adaptor out of a couple of nuts for my impact driver and several bits out of stainless washers (these are the used, twisted ones) and whacked the screws until I won. One screw broke but I managed to tease the broken part out. The other three came out whole but as you can see, not really useable.
Interestingly for the time/place of production and the rest of the threads, the screws are 8mmx1.0mm screws rather than imperial. I got some new ones turned up
I believe I read somewhere that the date of the vice is between 1945 and 1960 - it has no patent or model/design number on it on the left hand side which I have seen on some pictures of record 34s. If anyone has any more information on dates or how I can date it I would be very grateful!
