royce
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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 tapered pin for positive swivel lock
Lube ports for spindle and collar
Designed in the late 1800's with some very innovative features, the biggest being bore pockets below jaws for accessory jaws; swivel, pipe and soft jaws
A couple short comings, one being lack of thickness in the deck area that results in fractures and holes in the 'anvil' area.
Kevin Scott and I started chatting about this complete and pretty good condition example about 6 months ago.
The obvious things that needed addressed, jaws, handle, backlash and hole in the deck.
We talked about him silver brazing a new deck on, but opted to tig braze the hole and leave all the pecker tracks as is.
Kevin stripped the finish off and mentioned some black filler which leaves me to think it may have been japanned at birth.
The shape of the castings are so far different to anything else out there, we chose to not conceal the beauty of the roughness and lines by painting, the Daufuski Island patina is the perfect finish.
The pawl pivot was not designed to be taken apart and after through drilling the pawl, now can be.
The hole and crack in the deck was tig brazed, which is proper and looks beautiful.
The saw and hammer marks on the horn and deck while may seem amateurish are common and don't bother me at all.
Cleaned up handle hole and made new handle to original spec.
New Parker style jaws which is always impressive to me how Kevin mills and surface grinds them to shape, then hand finishes the tops.
He even was able to hit the original pin holes, bravo.
The backlash was not acceptable, so a bronze collar shim was cut and it now has just a few degrees.
Slicked up the slide and now runs like butter.
Forgive me, I probably forgot somethings he did.
In the interim while anticipating this neat piece of iron, I started on a swivel jaw, brass, aluminum and purple heart jaws as well as a stand.
I'l make a post on my first serrated jaw in the fab forum.
Anyhow took delivery on the the vise and got it mounted yesterday.
My hats off to Kevin for his wonderful work and providing it to me, I'm honored.
Royce
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 tapered pin for positive swivel lock
Lube ports for spindle and collar
Designed in the late 1800's with some very innovative features, the biggest being bore pockets below jaws for accessory jaws; swivel, pipe and soft jaws
A couple short comings, one being lack of thickness in the deck area that results in fractures and holes in the 'anvil' area.
Kevin Scott and I started chatting about this complete and pretty good condition example about 6 months ago.
The obvious things that needed addressed, jaws, handle, backlash and hole in the deck.
We talked about him silver brazing a new deck on, but opted to tig braze the hole and leave all the pecker tracks as is.
Kevin stripped the finish off and mentioned some black filler which leaves me to think it may have been japanned at birth.
The shape of the castings are so far different to anything else out there, we chose to not conceal the beauty of the roughness and lines by painting, the Daufuski Island patina is the perfect finish.
The pawl pivot was not designed to be taken apart and after through drilling the pawl, now can be.
The hole and crack in the deck was tig brazed, which is proper and looks beautiful.
The saw and hammer marks on the horn and deck while may seem amateurish are common and don't bother me at all.
Cleaned up handle hole and made new handle to original spec.
New Parker style jaws which is always impressive to me how Kevin mills and surface grinds them to shape, then hand finishes the tops.
He even was able to hit the original pin holes, bravo.
The backlash was not acceptable, so a bronze collar shim was cut and it now has just a few degrees.
Slicked up the slide and now runs like butter.
Forgive me, I probably forgot somethings he did.
In the interim while anticipating this neat piece of iron, I started on a swivel jaw, brass, aluminum and purple heart jaws as well as a stand.
I'l make a post on my first serrated jaw in the fab forum.
Anyhow took delivery on the the vise and got it mounted yesterday.
My hats off to Kevin for his wonderful work and providing it to me, I'm honored.
Royce
