va.grouseman
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Blane,---If you ever put together that coffee table, are you going to put legs on it like Kosmo Kramer's.---Just think how much more a copy would bring on E-bay.
Bagged89,---I marked it with a hack saw and then used the corners of a 12 inch flat file.
Vintage,---I don't have the patience for it either.---I just didn't know I didn't.---That KM makes me so mad, a whacking out jaws in 45 minutes.---It ain't fair.
Get,---Laugh you say.---I'd give a testicle to have a set-up like yours, when I started this project.---And all of my teeth don't line perfect either.---It just gets so monotonous, filing and sighting and adjusting---filing and sighting and adjusting.---And I still have to touch them up a little.
Wrench,---It's quite ok to think that the jaws were made of steel.---You are right, brass/bronze jaws would only be suitable for holding PCV pipe or wood without marring and bradding.---Way to soft for steel work.---But according to the story I was given from the seller, like Vintage Nut said, It came off a mine sweeper.---The guy said his father had it for thirty years in his basement and that it came off the USS Direct (AM-430/MSO-430), laid down in 52, launched in 53, commissioned in 54, reclassified as Minesweeper in 55, decommissioned in 82, scrapped in 84.---He said it was a wooden hull ship and that all the tools on board were brass or something that wouldn't spark.---I'm assuming they worked with very little stuff that required steel pipe jaws, where maintenance was concerned.---Not knowing whether or not to make them steel, I just went with ("everything on board was non-sparking"),so he said.
Drive,---I've only got one fitted up so far and it's pretty snug without the set screw.---Still got to sand off that 1/32 off the other two.
The hole for the collar setscrew is right and positioned perfect for no slop. the shiny space is allowing for the thickness of the Dynamic.
Bagged89,---I marked it with a hack saw and then used the corners of a 12 inch flat file.
Vintage,---I don't have the patience for it either.---I just didn't know I didn't.---That KM makes me so mad, a whacking out jaws in 45 minutes.---It ain't fair.
Get,---Laugh you say.---I'd give a testicle to have a set-up like yours, when I started this project.---And all of my teeth don't line perfect either.---It just gets so monotonous, filing and sighting and adjusting---filing and sighting and adjusting.---And I still have to touch them up a little.
Wrench,---It's quite ok to think that the jaws were made of steel.---You are right, brass/bronze jaws would only be suitable for holding PCV pipe or wood without marring and bradding.---Way to soft for steel work.---But according to the story I was given from the seller, like Vintage Nut said, It came off a mine sweeper.---The guy said his father had it for thirty years in his basement and that it came off the USS Direct (AM-430/MSO-430), laid down in 52, launched in 53, commissioned in 54, reclassified as Minesweeper in 55, decommissioned in 82, scrapped in 84.---He said it was a wooden hull ship and that all the tools on board were brass or something that wouldn't spark.---I'm assuming they worked with very little stuff that required steel pipe jaws, where maintenance was concerned.---Not knowing whether or not to make them steel, I just went with ("everything on board was non-sparking"),so he said.
Drive,---I've only got one fitted up so far and it's pretty snug without the set screw.---Still got to sand off that 1/32 off the other two.
The hole for the collar setscrew is right and positioned perfect for no slop. the shiny space is allowing for the thickness of the Dynamic.
.. I might just have to price it too flippin high for a couple years or 3
