Recent content by GraniteDragon

Picked up this Chas parker 25x vise a few months back. Love it but am having a time finding a replacement collar. I'm starting to think milling one is going to be my best bet. Any advice is welcome! Posting pictures is hard.

Thanks for all the great information! Yeah my current project will not be bothered by runout at all. I have yet to strip the machine down but i'm pretty sure there is a bit of runout. So i'll be reading on that next lol

Had to borrow my dad's but it worked!

Thank you Larryg, I didnt have any bolts that fit but i did have a punch that fit past the threads and was able to easily knock it out.

Yeah it has a metal tag on it "Daybrook-Ottawa 12321" so I'm guessing it was at their factory and had one job, that wasn't just putting holes in the work surface haha

Gonna try this one tonight! Thanks for both of the warnings. Will it still fall with the lock collar underneath the head?

Thank you, i dont have a bottle jack but i do have a car jack that i can rig up? Think that might work? Or i'll get a bottle jack tomorrow and try!

I feel like an absolute idiot for not being able to figure this one out on my own. I've used a lot of PB blaster, wd40 and 3in1 on the base of the column where the power head is currently sitting. All the lubricants have run down the column so i know they are getting through. I have loosened the...

First post! Hello! SO a couple days ago i picked up a WT drill press, the first one i've ever owned. I got it from a farm supply auction yard, which was different in itself. I'm not sure how long it was there but when i picked it up it had a pretty solid layer of dust on it. It was stored...