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Looking good Riv

Next up heat treating. Kevin gave me the parameters he uses for A2 and a hardness of 54-56 Went to a buddy's shop who has an oven and a hardness tester Got it hardened, tempered and checked, 4 tests 53, 54, 56 and 56+ Spot on hardness. Next up fitting mounting pins. That might be a bit as we are...

Next up drilled, counterbored and tapped for 1/2" shoulder bolt. Then started on bronze pivot mount, rough shaping and silver brazing a boss for the shoulder bolt pivot. Then bored, counterbored and reamed bronze pivot. At this point I left everything a bit long and did not drill for the vise...

Next up sawing to rough shape Then milling to final dimension Then bored for rotary table center pin Then cutting apex radius on rotary table I don't know how, but I missed the mark a bit, but it will still function

Kevin gave me the pitch of .125 and rough depth of cut of .035, so I set up to test cuts to verify depth. Then drilled and tapped the jaw blanks to screw to fixture plate. Then fastened blanks at 30 degrees on the fixture and commenced cutting. Then just a matter of turning the hand wheel and...

This is new ground for me, having not worked with A2 tool steel nor having ever serrated a vise jaw before. It is an interesting swivel jaw for a Bonney rapid transit vise. Not having a example to work from made for some guesstimating from etchings from the late 1800's and leaning on my pal...

Thanks The wood might not be ideal but has worked on another vise and was left over, so I used it again on this vise. If it fails it will be easy to change as it is held on the backing plate with VHB tape

Once in a lifetime vise. Bonney Rapid Transit #160 5-1/4" jaw width 10" opening Parker style jaws Fast acting gear rack and pawl coarse adjustment with a screw on the dynamic jaw for fine adjustment Swivel base with a few degrees of draft cage it, a brake shoe and cam swivel lock, plus a...

Teach downhill cellulose first. If you can control a 3/16" puddle downhill the rest comes easy.

After mounting the camper it was clear that the grill mount conflicted with the camper door, with a little tube and an offset, problem solved. Also made a receiver step out of an aluminum scaffold plank.

You bet Shift and thank you. That Parker is like new, I believe it to have original paint.

Thanks Tarbellb

The column is 4 angle irons taper cut, then welded together

Was looking through pics and found these pics of one of my favorite stands

Looking good sir, might we have a peek at the vise? I'm betting a 6" or 8" American Scale