setting up a vintage vise

[jniolon]

I've got an old Prentiss Vice that I've blasted and primed...

plan on painting it with Hammered Gray Rustoleum... but as I'm getting ready to paint and reassemble an old vice... I'm thinking I shouldn't have primed the screw and just lubed it well... I can always get the primer off the screw section...with a wire wheel

Any vice screw gurus want to educate me... should the screw (at least the thread part) be painted or just lubed up real well... this vice will be out in the weather.

thanks
John

 

[Lookin4'67Galaxieconv]

Any vice screw gurus want to educate me... should the screw (at least the thread part) be painted or just lubed up real well... this vice will be out in the weather.

thanks
John

Never thought of myself as a "vise screw guru" but I redid a vise a few years back and I didn't paint that part of it...just the body.

Lube it real well and I wouldn't think you'd have any problems. Of course you can apply that advice to other things as well!

 

[Brad54]

The screw is doing the work, thru friction. The paint on the screw threads is going to cause much more friction, will flake off, gall and generally do more harm than good. Strip off the paint.

-Brad