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Well I took her apart and gave her a good cleaning and degreasing. I used a couple coats of self etching primer, a couple coats of Rustoleum Midnight Blue Satin, then my wife did the letters for me, I chose gold to offset the blue better than I thought white would, and to make it my own. Then I...

mattyc603, thanks for your quick reply and the info. I actually looked on YouTube before stumbling on to this forum, but I was looking for the wrong thing, and kept finding videos about 60’s vises and not this one, since I didn’t know it was actually a Reed. Now that I searched for Reed, I found...

My neighbor just gave me a 5180 with 1043 stamped on it. His dad bought it new. My only question I have, is how do you get the main screw out? Also, what is the small screw below the “Oil” port for? I’d really like to restore this one and y’all have done some great work. Any tips would be...