Chas. Parker vise help....

[RCsGarage]

Does anyone know how to remove the dynamic jaw from a 974?

That's as far as it will slide out.

 

[zoomieport]

Push it back in and wire wheel the end of the slide, its probably got just enough gunk on it to make it tight. Wire wheel it and is should slide right out...

Take care!
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[notlob]

Also look for areas on top of the rear portion of the slide where someone used it as an anvil. Sometimes careful use of a file is needed to get the slide all the way out.

 

[RCsGarage]

Don't know. I used a wire brush, filed it, sanded it smooth as butter but it's still getting caught on something and it's not crude or gunk it feels like a catch. Not sure. I got the swivel bottom off and cleaned up, got the jaws off and just said f it and pained the slide too. I wanted to tape it up and leave it bare metal but whatever.

Thanks....

 

[Tonellin]

There is no need to completely remove it for restoration.

There absolutely is...

How the hell are you going to remove paint from the slide with it in the static jaw? How are you going to clean the main nut of half a century worth of grease? Nevermind trying to fit that whole damn thing is a 5 gal bucket for electrolysis or a simple green degreasing...

RCS just wiggle the dynamic jaw some while lifting up and it should come out fine there's nothing holding it on. I just took apart a Charles Parker this weekend and ran into the same issue

 

[meatsis]

There absolutely is...

How the hell are you going to remove paint from the slide with it in the static jaw? How are you going to clean the main nut of half a century worth of grease? Nevermind trying to fit that whole damn thing is a 5 gal bucket for electrolysis or a simple green degreasing...

RCS just wiggle the dynamic jaw some while lifting up and it should come out fine there's nothing holding it on. I just took apart a Charles Parker this weekend and ran into the same issue

OP Tonellin is right. Theres nothing holding it in. Just pretend like you have a set and use some muscle to wiggle it out.
Don't paint the slide. Take it apart and clean it out thoroughly the correct way.

 

[Mark in Indiana]

Looks like to me, in your case, you can close the vise all the way, wire brush the paint & rust off the slide, spray a little oil on the slide and get it apart.

IMO: It's very important to remove the slide & nut to properly clean the inside of the body for your restoration.

This is a little extreme. Pictured below, I had a Prentiss vise with a cracked slide. Because of the crack, the end of the slide was .110" wider than the rest of it. Using my floor jack and a dead blow hammer, I removed the dynamic slide.

 

[drivesitfar]

RC: maybe just a bit more filing and more wiggling and effort and the dynamic should come out so you can work on it and the inside of your static too. you can measure to see if the back of your Parker is square cause as said a lot of prior vise owners used the back of their vise's slides as anvils and beat them out of square and sometimes cracked or damaged them beyond repair.

good luck

 

[RCsGarage]

Little update...I filed the heck out of it some more and it never would slide out. I ended up having to use a large punch and beat it out. Finally got it out and cleaned up. Letting the enamel paint cure as we speak.

 

[Beater5liter]

What color you paint it? I recently acquired the same model vise in VGC and I'm debating on a paint job for it.