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Fretters

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CwazyWabbit said:
Fretters That was a very good price, you are right to be pleased... shame about the torture you had to endure as penance! Truck? Are you a Land Rover guy perchance?
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It was hell. :D Almost comparable to being dragged into IKEA. :D

Hilux Surf is my beast of choice. Less time spent having to stop and pick up the corroded or lost parts. :D
 
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Well, looks like i get to pass on the No. 48. Price for freight is $700 door to door :eyecrazy: haven't found a freight forwarder Liverpool - Halifax direct, consolidated freight goes through Montreal.
This should be doable a lot cheaper than that but will take some digging, maybe through consolidated international removals (movers).

Price isn't going down on that vise much either!

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Thrumcap Hopefully I'm still in with a chance, although he did say it had generated quite a bit of interest so I'll have to wait and see :-/
 
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Mark in Indiana said:
:thumbup: Beautiful job on your #79. Good choice of color by your wife.


1. Any before pictures?
2. How hard was it to disassemble?
3. Any idea how old it is?

I have a #73 like yours.


http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=4358450&postcount=21802 CL ad when I bought it.
It was a pain to get the pin out, it was stuck pretty good. The other two side pins were easy. The rest was just like normal.
I don't know if it is a date or part# but there is a very small "40" dead center on the front of the screw knob
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For all you folks who are looking for a Versa Vise or Gyro Vise, there's one on the big auction site that looks like an earlier version, and it appears to be the long-lipped style. Do a search on "Boller Vise".


Blue
 
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Mark in Indiana

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GETRIDAONE said:
Mark in Indiana said:
:thumbup: Beautiful job on your #79. Good choice of color by your wife.


1. Any before pictures?
2. How hard was it to disassemble?
3. Any idea how old it is?

I have a #73 like yours.


http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=4358450&postcount=21802 CL ad when I bought it.
It was a pain to get the pin out, it was stuck pretty good. The other two side pins were easy. The rest was just like normal.
I don't know if it is a date or part# but there is a very small "40" dead center on the front of the screw knob
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How did you remove the main pin?
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Here's a question for the experienced vise restorers': Have you noticed that after so many vise restorations, you come to a point where you are willing to buy a total broken down POS just for the challenge of restoring it?

Lately, I've been buying vises with missing jaws in order to make new ones, vises with broken bases so I can make new base sections, and vises without swivel bases just for the chance to design & build a swivel base for.

Reselling these vises (yes, I look at this)...I lose my a$$, considering time & labor. Maybe I like pushing the envelope a little too much, or...Maybe I feel sorry for the broken vises in the same way that Charlie Brown felt sorry for the lonely Christmas tree in the cartoon classic "Charlie Brown Christmas" show.

Anyway, this weekend, I wanted to share opinions about the more challenging restorations that we've fought & won.


Happy Trails!
 
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Scored my first vise, Rock Island 573. Thanks to a kind garage forum member
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Mark in Indiana said:
Here's a question for the experienced vise restorers': Have you noticed that after so many vise restorations, you come to a point where you are willing to buy a total broken down POS just for the challenge of restoring it?
Happy Trails!
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Mark I have been working my way up to the hard ones, been practicing on the Wilton's, Red Seals and Columbians. I have many that need major machining and custom jaws made, I can't wait to start them but first I must clean up what is on my work bench now. I would love to see the jaws you make.

Here is a first Generation #3 Wilton that had a cracked base, I welded it but just did not like the fix, so I made a replacement. Came out pretty nice, but it is not original. Yes we lose our a$$ in these restores but it is a fun hobby.
 

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Mark in Indiana said:
Here's a question for the experienced vise restorers': Have you noticed that after so many vise restorations, you come to a point where you are willing to buy a total broken down POS just for the challenge of restoring it?

Happy Trails!
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Mark in Indiana:

I think you are right, as we gain restoration experience, were willing to take on more of a challenge.

We all wish they arrived in "perfect condition" when we buy, but reality is that most need TLC, to make them potentially valuable to another buyer.

When working on some of the tougher ones and keeping track of cost/labor, it sometimes gets to point that if don't succeed, you just hope that the "good parts", might offset a future vise project.

Mike
 
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You guys will know when you have completly lost it when one of you starts re-manufacturing from scratch, something like a broken swivel jaw on on of these beasties! :lol: (My vote goes to KM...) :evil:

But I know what you mean, I repaired an exposed screw homeowners vise, (maybe 12 lbs?) just to show it could be done. It had the slide busted out of the dynamic jaw, had been brazed before (braze mostly popped off, once I got the hang of it), but once complete took test tightening as tight as I could without issue. and that was with the bottom of the slide pocket missing completely.

It's not always the destination, but the journey.
 
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KM: Beautiful work on that Wilton base. I hope I can get as good.
Sorry about my original post about building jaws, I should have said jaw faces. Pictured below is one of them.

Mike: Our vises may not come to us in perfect shape, but they leave us that way.
 

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Thanks VA, Outlaw and Mark, If industry needed my skills out here in Colorado I would be building tools, fixtures and Molds, but I will not work for the wages they are paying, I would rather fix these old beasts by creating new jaw faces, swivel bases etc. then have my machines just sit. I gave up on Toolmaking 4 years ago and now do Internet marketing and have found a hobby that I can have fun with and make a few bucks. I like seeing everyones work and hold back on sharing everything I do but every now and then I like to share some. Let's get some of these old Iron workhorses back to work.
 
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First sale I've been to in a while- an estate sale. I came away with this little vise. Only 3" and no swivel base, but it's an American made Yost, and in very good shape. Not bad for 5 bux. One oddity is it appears to be also mountable by the old-time center bolt-through-the-workbench method, which then would allow it to swivel. It looks like it would take a 3/8 or perhaps 1/2 carriage bolt. My Yost No. 1 has this arrangement, but on it the stud is threaded into the bottom of the vise and there's a round iron base that the vise sits on.
 

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demoman said:
Did anyone on here snag this 8 1/2" vise off ebay yet?? only $2500. I am not sure of the make but the looks familiar. i will se what it really looks like as this one has no name. For 2500 is ought to be a 10" ,350# with a swivel base! Just my 2 cents



http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-269...8-12-WideMetalworking-Ship-Yard-/331479894140
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Wow that's seen better days. Looks to me like dude power washed it, then spray bombed to hell, damn near an Earl Schibe paint job, 110% :scared:

But it sure is big :bounce:
 
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