Recent content by RandyIA

Nice job, the color...??? It's your vise. I prefer Oliver green (Meadow green) myself. Hahaha Doesn't matter as long as it stops rust and is durable. We had an unknown variety of vise at work (I worked heavy construction) that had so much over spray, oil, and crud on it there was no actual metal...

zkling, Point taken. Now, on some of those surfaces that have been cratered by the impacts he could presumably use a progression of fine grit abrasives and sand/polish them smooth once again, at least the flats. The screw is another story. mark-NJ, FWIW - Like zkling said, maybe consider...

zkling, It depends on how the term 'sandblasted' is meant. Cleaning it with a heavy cutting grit may very well have ruined it's worth, but not it's usefulness. Unless the vise is being restored for and then put up for sale it's his to do as he pleases with. Well, it's his to do as he pleases...

I'm not a metallurgist but I would strongly suggest not using heat to work on spring steel. That is unless you can re-heat treat it back to original. I've not bent one of these particular springs but I have bent flat springs and they need to go seriously past where you want them to end up. But...

Thanks for that! I don't think this saw spent a great deal of time outside but it was outside when I bought it and had a good surface rust going. It also has some very slight pitting but nothing to worry about. It's actually hard to see. I might have started off wrong but it's cast iron...

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I wasn't wanting to eliminate those swirls but getting it all clean and shiny is a problem so far. I guess I'll stop trying while I'm ahead and give it a coat of wax. The model number is

Nice work! Do any of your tables have the machined swirl marks of the original finish? Mine looks like it was surface ground with a fly cutter that had a diameter of maybe 10 or 12 inches. Just curious as to how everyone dealt with that. My first in my life table saw. Slowly bringing it to...

All I can suggest is measuring the arbor and thread pitch and finding a nut the same size. Mine is a 10" 113.** series so may not be the same as yours.

So far I'm just keeping it set up in my reloading room in the basement. I use it occasionally to hold some of the smaller things I'm working on. Right now it has a 1-1/2hp slow rpm motor clamped in it.

The next Superfund sight! Are you sure they didn't the neighborhood on an old Indian burial ground? That yellow stuff is Poltergeist pee. :eek:

What's farcebook?

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For what it's worth I have a set of those black non-impact snap-on sockets. These days I do as much with a quarter inch drive impact driver as I can. I use the socket adapters for the different drive sizes. If the Dewalt impact driver won't take it off then I step up to the half inch drive...

Or squirt some Marvel Mystery Oil in the hole....then at least what comes out next won't actually BE a mystery. I think the lab is out of the question...it's not that important is it? As for the water running around the garage, that's just the surface water...there's plenty more subsurface...