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edward:
So I spent £45 on this delight from Ebay.

Disassemble, then 2 days in citric acid, a good going over with a rapidstrip disk and wire brush and it was clean. Grind the weld off the anvil and polish up, then two coats of smooth hammerite.

Turn up a bronze spacer to replace the ramshackle stack of rusty washers at the back of the screw, then all back together and secure with some nice chunky M12 fixings

The end result is quite pleasing, and certainly a massive improvement on my old cheap and nasty no-name Chinese job.

Brass_Machine:
Nice job.  :thumbup: It is hard to believe those are the same vice.

Eric

SwarfnStuff:
Yep, Nice Resto Edward.

         Looks like a new vise (Almost) as you have obviously got some use out of it (just to prove it worked, right?) before photographing.

         And, as you said, "The end result is quite pleasing, and certainly a massive improvement on my old cheap and nasty no-name Chinese job."
   Congrats on a job well done,      :clap:

John B

edward:
Thanks chaps. It did indeed have a bit of a 'test' before the photos. I am trying to resist the urge to touch the paint up, have to remind myself its a tool not an ornament!

S. Heslop:
I just caught this thread this morning, and later in the day found this small heavily rusted vise in a second hand shop going cheap and thought i'd give give it a go.



Made a bit of a mess taking it apart. I drove the pin that holds the big nut in place out and got it stuck in the big thread, since I didn't open the vise enough. Couldn't get it to go back in to free the thread so I drilled it out.


Found this spray Rob Wilson gave me handy for freeing everything that was jammed. The only thing I can't get loose are the screws that hold the jaws on. I've tried heat a bit of heat and the penetrating oil with no luck yet, as well as tapping the screwdriver as I turn it. If a long soak in the stuff doesn't loosen them then the next thing i'd be trying is drilling them out, except it's probably not too big a deal if I can't remove them. They look to be in decent condition under all that rust.

But yeah. Hopefully it'll look as good as yours when i'm done with it.

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