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My friend Sam and I managed to make some good progress on Grandpa's old Wilton this weekend. We TIG welded a stainless nut onto the broken extractor and stud. This allowed me to slowly and gingerly back out the broken pieces. This allowed me to replace the jaws that had been missing from...

Well unfortunately I think I must have tried to remove the broken bolt with a screw extractor a few years ago, and managed to break the extractor off as well. So now I have an extremely hard piece of extractor in there as well. I will probably try to weld a nut onto the broken stud and see if...

Hey all, Here's my Wilton vise restoration project. The back story is that I got this from my grandfather's farm when he passed away about 8 years ago. I have been meaning to work on it for years, but there have always been other projects that got done first. I have overhauled a couple of...

That's a great score. Nicely done.

That's awesome!

RB that’s a great little mill. Good work.

Royce do you use anything specific for the oil? Looks great.