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milling vice restoration

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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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