Recent content by Metalmole

That's cool about your grandfathers vise, a keeper indeed....

nice !!

Hey all thanks for the comments, I will tell yall I should have lowered the knee on the Bridgeport, that sucker was heavy, it was a job getting it on the mill table......

Just wonted to show off my Yost 33c vise. It was given to me in disrepair, the spindle collar set screw had come lose and the vise was locked, after some time I got it apart, I cleaned up the acme threads, turned down/out the pipe wrench marks on the spindle boss, made a new collar and spindle...

Just wonted to show off my Yost 33c vise. It was given to me in disrepair, the spindle collar set screw had come lose and the vise was locked, after some time I got it apart, I cleaned up the acme threads, turned down/out the pipe wrench marks on the spindle boss, made a new collar and spindle...

Nice shop...how did they attach the poles to the slab ??

Nice shop...how did they attach the poles to the slab ??

Well said Imcrazy.....One big question for all yall naysayers....If you had been that store manager with a gun pointed at your head would you be thinking ..ok he's not going to shoot me...he knows the rules...if he gets the cash he's not suppose to shoot me....so do people do unpredictable...

Good to know....I have it almost ready to put some paint on, it had a couple of coats of paint on it, I took a small ballpeen hammer and cracked the paint off, it came off in little sheets in some places. This is going to be a real sweet vise. I will try and get some pictures........

Got the nut out, Kroil done its job ! I threaded the nut up on the shaft, its nice and smooth. I just have to make the locking coller that holds the shaft in the jaw. I was thinking that I would make the spacer a little thicker to take some of the play out of the vise, what do yall think, has...

Thanks everyone for the advise, got it out, and like auto said... the nut is all cruded up, got it soakin with some pen oil. Will keep ya posted, I dont know what I will have to do till I get the nut out and see if it will thread onto the shaft..........

Hi all I have a #33c Holland Yost vise that someone gave me, it was in sad shape as far as the screw goes, the rest is in excellent shape. I got it all apart except for the internal thread boss, there is a pin that needs to come out so the boss can slide out...Problem is how does thet pin come...