rwhite692
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Here is another one that I am working on, It's a 5" YOST, Model 33C.
96 pounds of goodness.
The guy who had sold it to the seller with a bunch of other stuff, told me that it had followed him home from Mare Island Naval Shipyard, when the yard closed in the mid 1990s.
At the time I purchased it, I had my doubts about the screw condition, as did the seller (thought it was most likely stripped out) because the jaw would only start to move after about two full revolutions of the handle. For that reason, I almost passed on it, but after we talked, the seller offered it at a low enough price that I decided to take a chance on it.
I didn't mount it to my bench to use it, for fear of it breaking if I tried to really tighten it, so, since bringing it home, it's been sitting under my bench waiting it's turn for some attention.
I took it apart the other day and it was a nice surprise to find that the problem was not a bad screw, but that the stop collar on the backside of the front jaw had simply become loose (the set screw) and had slipped back about 3/8".
The original color paint appears to be similar to "Evinrude outboard motor metallic light blue".
So anyway, it's all apart now and soaking in a bath of Castrol super clean, dissolving all the grease which had turned to a clay-like black crust. It should clean up real nice.
The jaws are in great shape. I need to get a set of pipe jaws for it, as they are missing (they are still available from YOST, but, at 100 clams...ouch!). Anyone on GJ have a set?
The pipe jaws can be seen in the photo of a new 33C, below (YOST still sells the same model#, today).
96 pounds of goodness.
The guy who had sold it to the seller with a bunch of other stuff, told me that it had followed him home from Mare Island Naval Shipyard, when the yard closed in the mid 1990s.
At the time I purchased it, I had my doubts about the screw condition, as did the seller (thought it was most likely stripped out) because the jaw would only start to move after about two full revolutions of the handle. For that reason, I almost passed on it, but after we talked, the seller offered it at a low enough price that I decided to take a chance on it.
I didn't mount it to my bench to use it, for fear of it breaking if I tried to really tighten it, so, since bringing it home, it's been sitting under my bench waiting it's turn for some attention.
I took it apart the other day and it was a nice surprise to find that the problem was not a bad screw, but that the stop collar on the backside of the front jaw had simply become loose (the set screw) and had slipped back about 3/8".
The original color paint appears to be similar to "Evinrude outboard motor metallic light blue".
So anyway, it's all apart now and soaking in a bath of Castrol super clean, dissolving all the grease which had turned to a clay-like black crust. It should clean up real nice.
The jaws are in great shape. I need to get a set of pipe jaws for it, as they are missing (they are still available from YOST, but, at 100 clams...ouch!). Anyone on GJ have a set?
The pipe jaws can be seen in the photo of a new 33C, below (YOST still sells the same model#, today).
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