Recent content by sailoratsea

I'm taking the body and screw to the machine shop tomorrow so we can get some measurements and see what can be done. We're gonna make sure the tap/bit they have is the right thread and decide on materials. Will keep you posted on the progress

DadsTools - that's not a bad idea. Thanks. Lucky for me I also have access to a pretty decent Machine Shop with lots of big expensive CAD style tooling. I may take these bits over to them and see if they can reproduce it. Would Stainless steel be a good material or should I be looking at...

sorry for the delay, got stuck on a sticky u-joint for most of yesterday. Here's the pics of the vise and the broken main nut.

thehorse13, that's pretty much exactly what my "main nut" looks like now. Thanks for correcting me on the proper terminology, my search results have already improved...but haven't struck gold. The quest has begun. Is there any chance that a main nut from a different model may work...is...

So... while attempting to break free a frozen u-joint I broke my vintage swiveling and rotating Flexivise. :mad: While desperately google searching I found the post by Vne about his triple swivel Fred C. Moran Flexivise and it has the same brand stamp as mine. This is the only mention of...

Hi all, I stumbled on this forum during some early morning bench vise research after I broke my vintage vise (dual swivel Flexivise) attempting to extract a universal joint. Sad day for my vise...good day for finding such a cool forum. Anyways I look forward to learning from you all and...

wow! and I thought my dual swivel Flexivise was cool... this one is next level. Today was a sad day in my garage when I broke my flexivise. An exhaustive google search led me to garagejournal...this may be the only place on the internet mentioning Flexivise. Sad to break my vice...glad to...