Flea Market Find - update: post-spa pix

[daizee]

This Chas. Parker swivel-base viSe was sold twice this morning... to me the second time.
At $40 it was still a steal.
I believe it's got 3" jaws with a 5" opening.
I'll post some more pix once it's cleaned up a bit.
This ought to replace my wobbly Pony viSe...

 

['71 Commando]

How come I never find a decent vise like this? Simple, you and you-know-who grab them all first!

 

[David Loukides]

Hi Daizee,
If on the other side it say's #954 I have the Identical vice. Sturdy is the word I would use for it.
Nice buy,
Dave

 

[daizee]

How come I never find a decent vise like this? Simple, you and you-know-who grab them all first!

And here I thought we were done shopping for viSes.
I'll continue to keep my eyes open when with The Finder.
If we'd been there an hour or two earlier I woulda had it for $25...

Dave, I'll check that number when it comes back from the spa.
There's another one in the Family, similar but considerably larger.

 

[heftylefty]

Daizee:

V-I-SSSSSSSSSS-E

I found you a viSe.
A viSe that is nice.
PreciSe?

Unless of course you were referring to my vice involving but not limited to vises.

*Ahem* Mugs--How many lathes do you NEED?

--you-know-who

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I love everybody...so there.

 

[daizee]

Daizee:

V-I-SSSSSSSSSS-E

I fixed it for you.
Don't need anybody speculating about my pony vice....

 

[Brian Ayres]

Nice vise, I admit I have a vice for vises.. I have a 6" post vise and bought a second 5-3/4" Iron City post vise just because it was a "deal"....
I'm jealous of that Chas Parker. I "need" to find one too.

 

[rwn2000]

I found this one at a flea market yesterday,3" jaws, about 6" throat, doesn't swivel but is definitely heavy duty. and for $50, it was about $1.00 per pound I think.

randy

 

[ron_m80]

I found this one at a flea market yesterday,3" jaws, about 6" throat, doesn't swivel but is definitely heavy duty. and for $50, it was about $1.00 per pound I think.

randy

I don't think that is even worth the current scrap rate. Nice finds everyone. I am really enjoying finding these old tools.

 

[daizee]

I can't wait until tomorrow, so here are some low-light phone pics!!

HeftyLeft is The Tool Spa!

The natural one is mine, the red one is hers (you shoulda seen how gunky the red one was before restoration...):
That red is RED, without the pinkish hue the camera gives it. The Wilton clamp was picked up the same day as the smaller vise.

dang, I jittered.

 

[Brian Ayres]

Beautiful. I love tools with well executed paint jobs. I also love tools with a natural patina. Thanks for sharing.

 

[amamachinist]

Nice work! They look great!

 

[Burton Harruff]

Very nice. What are you cleaning them up with. Care to share your process? I have cleaned up some old rusty tools with citric acid. I had a local guy show me that trick and it works well. If a tool is really pitted with rust it won't take the pits out but it will clean the rust right off.

 

[Murphnuge]

Very cool , I've got a busted old vice from my Great-Grandpa in the back. I'll take some pix of it shortly.

 

['71 Commando]

Daizee:

V-I-SSSSSSSSSS-E

I found you a viSe.
A viSe that is nice.
PreciSe?

Unless of course you were referring to my vice involving but not limited to vises.

*Ahem* Mugs--How many lathes do you NEED?

--you-know-who

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I love everybody...so there.

Lathes and vises...so many vices/too little time

I need to build a bench that can support the big viSe that has been relaxing in the driveway. What I really need is a solid benchtop.

 

[ron_m80]

I like the way you repainted too. I tend to highlight the forged trademarks on my good equipment too. (which is a recent upstart effort of mine)

Here are some of my newer shots of them, hopefully not far off topic.

Still a work in progress, but you are not the only one who prides himself not only on what he can do, but what tools he does it with.

 

[ron_m80]

For a solid bench-top, you could take a hint from tilt up construction of concrete slab walls.

Build a form, lay down a flat surface with a backer like plastic. Build a wire frame of rebar, and pour a nice flat pad, do it three times and bolt them together with anchors and bolts. for 100 bucks in construction material you get a 400 pound bench that won't move when the earth shakes.

I got mine from a donation through a friend. I guess they needed a solid table in a laboratory somewhere and that was there solution.

This is that bench,

 

[heftylefty]

Very nice. What are you cleaning them up with. Care to share your process? I have cleaned up some old rusty tools with citric acid. I had a local guy show me that trick and it works well. If a tool is really pitted with rust it won't take the pits out but it will clean the rust right off.

Thanks for checking. The process depends on what I'm inspired to do and what the owner wants; Daizee cautioned against a restorative treatment that might require he throw his vise a coming out cotillion--he'd never touch it because it was too pretty. I was motivated by the thought of relegating his pony to the slaughterhouse. Boring details and not what you asked but it's late after a long night in the shop with an ugly machine, and flixNet dubbed(!) my relaxation kung fu movie *GGGrrrr*

I always begin the same way:

-- I disassemble _everything_

-- Arm&Hammer laundry soap and a horsehair brush &/or brass wire brush (I leave the fancy de-rust-ification alchemy to the competition tool reincarnators and tools of precision whose original properties I'd like to retain as much of as possible) NB This cleaning method does _not_ degrease or de-rust completely, btw, which can be good or bad depending on which fork in the road I need to take to continue

-- While cleaning out the small spaces with dental tools I inspect: all threads, ways, castings; replace all missing and wrong hardware; re-thread the needy and file the burrs

The next steps are determined by desired aesthetics. All surfaces are painted/waxed/oiled/greased/antiseized/polished/protected as required.

I know it's not as sexy as Frankenstein's electrolysis tank filled with electric rust eating beetles of unusual size with muriatic acid for saliva.

-- Lefty



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I like watching cats fall down.

 

[heftylefty]

Lathes and vises...so many vices/too little time

I need to build a bench that can support the big viSe that has been relaxing in the driveway. What I really need is a solid benchtop.

Dimensions? I'm having some old oak barn beams planed where I get my kindling--hardened masonite atop that for flatness. I wish I could fit those Japanese temple beams that I was offered into Neige-boule. I cut one in half with a 12 inch handsaw. It's in the basement.
...
Maybe I can help.
You know I might know of a guy in a place with some stuff around the corner in the building underground.


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[heftylefty]

I like the way you repainted too. I tend to highlight the forged trademarks on my good equipment too. (which is a recent upstart effort of mine)

Here are some of my newer shots of them, hopefully not far off topic.

Still a work in progress, but you are not the only one who prides himself not only on what he can do, but what tools he does it with.

Yes--those of us who love our old tools tend to wax poetic and detail them with the finest enamels. Looking forward to seeing that drill press ya got there.

-- Lefty



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