A Hand Made vice saved.

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

YAY.
A rusty box.

Full of goodies.


This was one of the goodies.

So we took some old tools and a modern tool to get it into bits.

Took a bit of work.

Each screw was hand cut, so would only fit in one place.

De-rusted with Critic acid.

Sealed with wax/oil mix, applied when the metal is warm.

Ignore my dirty finger prints, they have been polished out.

 

[redhunter350]

Just for your interest the vice is typical in design to many made as apprentice pieces in college workshops in the 1960’s and beyond, I think I still have one lurking somewhere in my workshop
This was at a time trade apprenticeship’s were the order of the day

 

[dannyr]

Just for your interest the vice is typical in design to many made as apprentice pieces in college workshops in the 1960’s and beyond, I think I still have one lurking somewhere in my workshop
This was at a time trade apprenticeship’s were the order of the day

yup, and earlier

nicely refurbed

there are a few around, of various designs - still v useful --- or could make quite a collection

 

[redhunter350]

Here’s the one I have from c1962, pressed into service yesterday to enable me to split a piece of ally too short for the machine vice ! It’s been “hidden” at the back of a cupboard for xxx years and this post reminded me !!

 

[Phill05]

Nice job cleaning it up, yes 1960's was a very good time to be making vices i too have one somewhere in the back of the shed I also made a machine vice, and a very small vice you held in a std vice I use that to hold small parts in clock making and a bearing puller, I should go and look where they all are.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Here is another Hand made vice, I tried to save.

Sadly at the Men In Shed, the thread was damaged. It is now waiting to have the thread re tapped.

 

[dannyr]

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Here is another Hand made vice, I tried to save.


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Sadly at the Men In Shed, the thread was damaged. It is now waiting to have the thread re tapped.

Someone hit it with that caulking hammer?

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Someone hit it with that caulking hammer?

Alas not.
A keen member of Men In Shed, also a You tube expert. Tried to run the threaded bar in, when it was burred and caked in crud.

 

[redhunter350]

Nice job cleaning it up, yes 1960's was a very good time to be making vices i too have one somewhere in the back of the shed I also made a machine vice, and a very small vice you held in a std vice I use that to hold small parts in clock making and a bearing puller, I should go and look where they all are.

Here's another one I made -- in fact I have made several, the first was about 50 years ago but it was taken prisoner !!! The jaw material is 1" x 3/4" tool steel

 

[Phill05]

Here's another one I made -- in fact I have made several, the first was about 50 years ago but it was taken prisoner !!! The jaw material is 1" x 3/4" tool steel

Very nicely made I like the sub base to hold it, quite a lot better than my ones, the one I use most is like one of yours but instead of the round post I have a flat plate to hold in a vice, I use it all the time when I am working on clocks I fitted leather faces to protect the work.

 

[dannyr]

great stuff red and phil - love those individually made apprentice/toolroom/hobbyist/special app vices

I have a few, rust covered but in line for a careful clean-up - sometimes see em almost given
away

on the subject of apprentice-pieces - what other tools were made to instructor's order? - have seen callipers, depth gauges, adjustable spanners, cramps

 

[Phill05]

great stuff red and phil - love those individually made apprentice/toolroom/hobbyist/special app vices

I have a few, rust covered but in line for a careful clean-up - sometimes see em almost given
away

on the subject of apprentice-pieces - what other tools were made to instructor's order? - have seen callipers, depth gauges, adjustable spanners, cramps

I came from a farming background so I asked if I could make a vise for a milling and grinding machine (now rusty) a bearing puller, (that has lost 2 of the small linkage arms) a few small hand tools that have been lost over the years, and the small vice above.