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Hit it with the wire wheel and a little polish last night. It was completely peppered with surface rust, didn’t seem to have any plating on it. Based on the stampings and lack of a date code, any idea of when it was made? I figure if I can pin down approx date of manufacture it might be easier...

The young lady working there was quite captivating. I enjoy seeing young ladies doing artisan crafts-person-ship. Always have admired that.

I picked up a pretty rusty and crusty Snap-On PP0108 1/4” pin punch. It says “wear Safety goggles” on one side flat, but there doesn’t seem to be any date code. I’m planning to anneal it, cut it down a bit and make a blacksmiths style touch mark with it. However, I am not sure when it was made...

I’d say that Vice is probably from Japan or Eastern Europe, or India, likely made after WWII

What is the best website for getting information on dealing with asbestos in older homes? I want to purchase an older home for a variety of reasons, but the presence of potential asbestos is always a worry. The mediation companies make it sound like asbestos is a demon hiding behind every wall...

I thought the same thing and tried clamping them in a larger vice and trying to turn them. I decided to give the whole assembly a 24 hr vinegar soak and thorough degrease before I try anything else. My guess is that one of the guide rods was pressed in, the thread was put through the casting...

I have an old small clamp on bench vice that I’m trying to clean up and redo. Most of these small vices have a bolt that goes through the side of the front jaw casting that, when loosened, allows the threaded rod to be removed. This vice has an odd clip that retains the threaded rod, and I see...

A few more shots… this vice will come in handy for soldering, one of the main things I had in mind when I thought through it. Has anyone ever seen a freestanding mini vice on a weighted base? If not maybe I should apply for a patent. 🤔

Here is a link (while it lasts) for the vice I bought: Small blue and red vice

I recently bought a vice on eBay (see post in this forum) that is unmarked, but had a similar blue and red color scheme. Your vice looks like they were mirroring a Wilton baby bullet vice; mine was a copy of the old Millers Falls and Stanley c-clamp style “jewelers” vices. Judging by the logo...

Well I finally completed what I wanted to do to this vice. The idea was to take it to bare steel, clean up and polish the jaws and other surfaces as much as (reasonably) possible, and fix it to a solid wood and steel base (made from 1/2” steel and quarter sawn oak) so it could be moved anywhere...

I needed to make a set of special pliers, so I removed the slide off blue grips from an old set of beat up Kobalt pliers that have been kicked around for a while, maybe 10-15 yrs. I annealed the pliers, cut them down and filed and drilled them to be what I need them to be. Heated the tip area...

I’ve taken apart an old black Bakelite Craftsman drill 315.11480 from the 70’s to install a new cord on it. While I have it apart, I have a few questions: 1. What kind of grease would have been used in the gear assembly on these 70’s era drills? Ideally I’d take all this old grease out and...

What color was yours? I think this one and others I’ve seen like it on eBay were blue and red or black and red, copying the older American ones.

Hi, I’m in the process of fixing up this old foreign-made (I’m thinking Japan or Korea) copy of the small Stanley and Millers Falls style “jewelers” vices, the kinds with the swivel bases and the c-clamp style bench attachments. This vice is smaller than my MF No. 18 and nowhere near as well...