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That's a nice Australian made one. My vice is very similar. They're not exactly common here, the regular non-offset type are much more often seen. I can't imagine there are tons of Dawns in the States. Red indicates it's cast iron (blue would be cast steel, green SG iron). The Dawn cast iron is...

Good to hear you are recovering... being immunocompromised *****.

Interesting idea about a lock... I can't see a mechanism by which the rollers would actuate anything, though - the sides are solid metal as far as I can tell and the tube along the opposite end to the rollers is a C shape of rolled metal that you can see into - doesn't appear to come off or...

First is C F J Z S I U Last is P O N X V T R

Imperial here for me in Oz... ditto everyone locally I talk to.

I do rather like some of those words. The order of letters may be somewhat misleading, too... it's a continuous roll, I just picked a random place to mark the start of the letter sequence.

Well that's darn obvious in retrospect... haha.

I thought it might have been for stamping, but the letters don't protrude past the knurling and the left hand side of the tool is higher than the right... so stamping would be a little hard.The sides don't move independently and the letter rollers don't move substantially. The letters go...

Disassembled, cleaned and re-lubed a Dufor W9 Australian-made ratcheting wrench: More pics: https://motofaction.org/tool-reviews/dufor-w9-ratchet-wrench-1-2-inch-drive-vintage-history-restoration-review/ At the end of the day it doesn't look all that different - less grubby, but I didn't...

Carry on luggage? ;) The imperial ones (eg 5SP rather than 125) pre date metrication in Oz and some styles vanished from catalogues in certain years... I intend on calling Dawn to ask sometime soon.

I guess you probably don't get a lot of Dawn vices outside Australia - and in a similar vein I have never seen a Wilton around here! I made a mistake a half decade ago and picked up a shipping crate or two of motorcycles and parts of a certain make and model and while they were very useful for...

Wow - vive la différence!

Thanks! Wish I could find some more Dawn stuff locally, had a good run for a few weeks where there was a vice every few days that turned up but I haven't seen one for a while now... which is probably good, since I have a Record and two unnamed vices to look at yet and I shouldn't stockpile too...

That's probably one of my favourite colours that I have experimented with so far - I reckon that a socket box in that colour would be pretty nice too. Thanks! I'm still feeling stoked every time I use that vice... was certainly not one I expected to pick up for a resto, but am super pleased...

The colours I have tried and the results so far are here: https://motofaction.org/tool-reviews/dawn-tools-australia-clamp-vice-vise-red-paint-what-colour-matches/

Thanks guys, that answers that. Learn something new every day!

This one has me stumped... it looks like it goes in a chuck - has witness marks that look like that - and reminds me a bit of a tap, but it's not tapered. The female threaded part is jammed on tight - I'm presuming it comes off - so it's currently soaking in penetrant. Has some...

Finally finished reassembling and repainting the Dawn offset vice: More info and pictures here: https://motofaction.org/tool-reviews/dawn-100mm-4-inch-offset-bench-vice-vise-restoration-review-60195-super-grade-sg-ductile-iron/ Needed the handle straightened and a new main nut and...

Not really a major restoration but I cleaned up a Jackdaw and re-lubed it: More pics here: https://motofaction.org/tool-reviews/garrington-tool-company-the-jackdaw-adjustable-spanner-review-restoration-10-inch-aa10-british-england-made-carrington/ Despite being 63 years old it's pretty...

Found a Jackdaw locally in a bulk toolbox buy: More pics and a bit of a cleanup here: https://motofaction.org/tool-reviews/garrington-tool-company-the-jackdaw-adjustable-spanner-review-restoration-10-inch-aa10-british-england-made-carrington/ 63 years young and still going strong...