How to make vice from scrap?

[stuckinthemud]

I saved one end of a broken engineers No 5 vice. All I really wanted was the screw mechanism. Without a lathe or tap and dies, how do I make the threads for the receiver (don’t know the correct name, sorry)? I was thinking of epoxy gluing a series of washers angled across a channel in a hardwood block. Any ideas?

 

[dannyr]

I think the part you mean is the 'nut'

No 5 is a big beast and screw - the pressure you could apply in use might chew up any epoxy/washer assembly. You could grind the lead end of the screw to cut so it would act as a self tap and go back'n'forth into a long hole in a hard wood such as lignum, but ----

if it were me, I'd look for other broken vices with the right part - might have to be patient.

 

[Ttrees]

I presume you buy ACME nuts....
I don't see any from Chronos UK, but surely from somewhere?
McMaster-Carr sell'em.