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| millwright:
Nice restoration Andrew, those Sandvik scrapers do make a lot of difference as well. Ive had mine over 30yrs fortunately they were bought by the company and left with me when i was made redundant. john |
| Andrew Wildman:
John, I baulked a bit at the £50 odd quid it cost me but it saves a lot of time sharpening carbon steel scrapers, you soon forget the cost! I made some transfer screws out of some whitworth 12.9 screws that were in the 'misc whitworth' drawer. I quenched them but I am not sure it made them any harder. They served there purpose anyway. I made up some new jaws out of (what the Americans call) O1, mainly because it is pre ground stock. I may harden and temper the jaws, depending on whether my experiments show that I can do it without twisting them up like a pringle. The jaws will be milled in situ so I stamper them up f for fixed and s for sliding so that if I remove them I can put them back in the right place. |
| Andrew Wildman:
I filled the castings and slapped on a bit of paint |
| Arbalist:
Nice paint job! :thumbup: |
| Andrew Wildman:
I assembled the vice. The only bit left to do is experiment on heat treating the spare bit of ground bar I have to see if it warps. I think my tool cum surface grinder is too small to grind the jaws flat again if they do warp. |
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