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A few pages back I posted some photos of my son's vise. Here are some better shots. It's a Columbian No. 63 "Red Arrow". The dynamic jaw support was snapped off and there was quite a lot of slop in the bore of the dynamic. I pressed in an oilite bushing for the leadscrew and shimmed the...

I've settled on Tremclad Wild Raspberry with silver lettering :) Temps aren't the best for painting right now, but I might give it a shot.

Stripped the paint off the Parkinsons 38A. This thing has really been beat on! Maybe not the approach that all would take, but I spent a lot of time with a flap wheel and blended all of the larger smash marks down along with removal of all of the weld spatter. Based on some of the weld...

Hi Outlaw - thanks! I believe it may have been one of your posts that clued me in to making the swivel lock with a coupling nut. The top plug was initially long enough to lock the handle, however I decided I didn't like that and shortened it up. It spun around too much and I had to grind a...

This next one is also in line for a restoration. As soon as it popped up on the local marketplace I had to have it! It has had an extremely hard life and sadly the QR mechanism was removed or destroyed. Parkinson "Samsonia" 38A Model J cast steel vise. I am guessing 1940's based on a...

Thanks Shiftless! Those mounting bolts are actually just really dark regular plated Gr. 8 hardware. I do like the aesthetics of them. Probably a bit overkill for a light-med duty vise!

This Record 00 was bought at the Red Deer AB swap meet back in April 2016. It reeked of pack rat piss so it was promptly dumped into a tub of my favourite degreaser (Pinesol). Sadly the rat piss did a number on the paint and really rusted the handle so it was wire wheeled clean. It now awaits...

I made my 3.5 year old a workbench for Christmas 2019. Along with it, I decided to give him this old Red Arrow vise made by Columbia that I picked up at a yard sale for $5. The jaw support was broken off but I don't think he will miss it for a while.:lol_hitti

I spent some time making my Craftsman 391 series vise too nice to use. Had to make a new swivel lock as the original was damaged. Following some good advise from others here, the lock was made using a 1/2" coupling nut and a 5/16" bolt with the head and nut rounded. This thing has had a hard...

This is awesome! My wife and her family are long time farmers and residents of SK. They are also (not my wife) very Lutheran. Where is this? I want to drop by next time I am out there! I've often thought of doing something similar, you can practically buy whole towns that are abandoned in...

Seeking the following Gray Tools metric combo wrenches: 8mm, 9mm, 10mm, 12mm, 16mm. I have a variety of random wrenches from Gray, Proto/Plomb, ETF and a few old Canadian Snap On that could be traded. Thanks.

Awesome! I like the layout. Where is SK are you?

Good info! My dad recently had a farrier out to shoe some of his horses. He showed the guy some photos of my great-grandpa's anvil and the farrier had lots of good to say about the old Peter Wright anvils. He has a large collection of Peter Wright anvils himself (go figure) so I might swing...

Thanks for the additional information four.cycle! The #3275 is quite a step up from the #3201 in terms of feel and action. The socket is a 6220 and is a straggler. Probably something that was found and not bought. I notice that it is not tapered/thin-walled either like the previous...

More Indestro Tools! I did some digging through my grand-father's tool horde and came up with this gem: A nice 3275 1/2" drive ratchet to keep my 3201 company! I went through all of the sockets and wrenches but only came up with a single Indestro socket: The socket appears to be...

I worked for a contractor that was designing the railway from Pt. Hedland to the Roy Hill Mine and spent many months on the proposed alignment route. I also spent some time between Newman and BHP Jimblebar for a new power-line alignment and construction. I tried my best to do it justice and...

I knew I could count on you guys to point me in the right direction! Yeah, plans are in the making for my father and I to return with our trucks and trailers.... My great-grandparents basically walked off the place in the early 70's and left everything as it was. All sorts of treasures. The...

Yes, the Pilbara was like nothing I have ever seen. Mmm spinifex! I worked on determining the route and construction material borrow pits for the rail-line at Roy Hill and a power-line near Newman. I did however spend a few months travelling around Australia by 4x4 and motorcycle. Did the...

Yeah I am pretty pleased to have saved that anvil and the vise too. There were a lot of other items that I passed up - can't save them all. I got a few sets of tongs though. No hammers. A lot of the tooling was likely on the ground as the wood floor had become one with the earth and was a...