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Ok, hello all, I just got done completing the "how to trick your Athol vise" thread. So many here were a huge help in FINALLY getting it done! I hope you like it, and if you do please "bump it" up! Here is a teaser: Athol 614 1/2 Spinner:

Drives; Hmm, it's on a forklift tire/rim combo. Just a guess but if that was 8" (or 200 lbs.+) , this would have to make that rim maybe 16 or 18". Again I'm no pro, but I think the proportions are off. Even 5" or 6" seems to be pushing it to me. But I'd be happy to be wrong.

Outlaw- ah, ok I remembered it was something different but I wasn't sure what it was. While we're on the subject, I'll ask this; Were manufacturers making both replaceable and fixed jaws at the same time (thereby offering the replaceables as an option upgrade)? Or maybe perhaps the replaceable...

Outlaw, I wad looking through some old posts, I thought I remember seeing you have one of these but I don't remember if yours was the older version or not. Do you still have yours? Get: Congratulations! ! I hope you enjoy your retirement! !

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Thanks again to all for their help and encouragement! Many thanks! Oh, and don't give up until you can get YOUR spinner to do this! ! ! ! My user: 20 revs and 4 inches of travel, God bless, Tom Athol 614 1/2 Spinner: And one last special thanks to drivesitfar for all the...

Our attention now turns to: Flattening The Bottom Of The Vise. This step might seem a little out of order, but hang in there and I think you'll see why I chose this step first. Many an ear has been broken off of the base of our vises from this undesirable condition. You see, the bottom face (the...

This now brings us to another area of the vise, the relationship between the main screw and the main nut. You may ask, "Why would we want to bother messing around with this area? What is to be gained in fooling around here?" Simply put... much. I'll explain a little here. If you hadn't noticed...

We now turn our attention to removing as much unnecessary friction as possible from the yoke/dynamic jaw relationship when closing the vise. "Why bother" you ask? Because you've hung in there and gone this far with that nice, shiny new handle and that mirror finished yoke, it's only a couple...

I measured the radius of the screw-yoke and transferred that dimension (actually I slightly decreased the radius on the end)to the interior face of the acorn handle end, thereby, eliminating any chance of "boogering" up the yoke because all contact is far outboard of the edges of the screw-yoke...

How to trick your Athol! Many of you know that I'm a big fan of utilizing the "spinner" handle function Parker incorporated on their later vises, (you know how you wondered what that threaded hole in the yoke was for!) so I decided to borrow that feature and incorporate it into these two Athols...

sz0k30, I have the same vise mine is a 4". You may have already heard this but did you try the coupling jack screw technique? That seems to work well.

Nice Work Alex! Looks terrific! I like the color too.

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Nice job Jason! Looks great! Sweet color too. Great work on those jaws Mr Scott! Jason, will you be posting some photos as you go along with that 3C? Great job again!

KMScott: here's a pic of those jaws. By the way, I'm very confident your 956 will come out very sharp! ! If you have doubt then I suggest you trade with me straight up... as is, this way you can be sure your getting the better end of the deal! The other: FMC1959: I'm usually way to excited to...

Yeah, it's funny I thought of that! I dig that look too. Like I say,I was first going to have him make the end cylindrical like the yolk itself, similar to some of the Dunlap and craftsmans. You know the ones, with all the hold down ends and the handle ends all themed the same way? I also new I...

Thanks all for the kind words! I didn't verbalize much on the resto itself. I made effort to "sleeve" the dynamic with a bronze bushing and almost contacted brother Scott to see if he wouldn't mind but after further measuring, the more I centered the screw inside the dynamic, the more the...

My father retired from Pratt & Whitney,took a package 55 and out. My fal works for Hamilton Sunstrand (formerly standard) and I used to work at HS until I moved out here. I was able to obtain a vise that my co-worker buddy gave me before it went to surplus.Wasn't nothing super terrific. Wilton...