Recent content by Brodieb

What is the reason that the socket was broached for the drive, instead of cut on the CNC?

Last weekend I picked up some regulators, filters, oilers and other odds and ends at an estate sale. I hooked a Wilkerson filter/water separator up to my diy fridge compressor, but the drain valve seems to continuously vent and not close. There were a few bowls with the same type of drain...

Its been a while since I volunteered, but back when I did the department had a maintenance team (paid) - there is a lot of equipment to keep in proper working order, not even counting the trucks. And the air was used as often as possible. Every call the tanks went on, training too. Why not-...

I want to put some primer on the parts I have cleans up already, to make sure they don't rust. What parts do you guys usually paint? Bottom/inside off the slide? Main nut? Dovetail pins for main nut? Inside of static jaw (that slide runs through)?

drives: Good advise- didn't think of that.

Three of the four jaw screws came out without to much trouble, but on one the slot had been bashed closed. I tried taking it out with a screw extractor, and had the result that seems to be par for the course from reading this thread (does anyone consistently use these successfully?) Anyway...

that was much easier than expected! When I first took the vice apart, it took a little effort to move the end of the slide thru the fixed jaw, and I hoped it was just dirt or rust causing the sticking... but unfortunately after cleaning it up a bit can see there is a crack running up the back of...

Thanks! I'll knock it out tonite. (I hope) And for anyone interested in original vice colors-after electrolysis the horrible applied orange paint stripped right off (no pics from then), leaving patches of black paint that I had to scrape off -no blue to be seen anywhere.

I recently inherited a Morgan Chicago 140 fro my FIL, and after reading a few posts here dropped it in an electrolysis bath for a week (my battery tender with a hot wheels battery in parallel only put out ~1v when hooked up). When I took it out and stripped it I found there is a pin or something...