If you mix some fine filings in with the JB Weld, you can kinda fake the cast iron look of the table. You mound up the mess in the holes, and then when you grind/sand it flush, it looks good-er. Experiment a bit. I've found that each repair takes different proportions. Luckily, I've never had to do it to a personal machine, cause I put something under the victim to be drilled, etc. I have, however drilled a Chinese **** vise or two in my day. I consider them sacrificial.
Or just buy the steel filler epoxy putty that's already full of iron dust.
Moglice is a way material, similar to rulon and Turcite but is pourable instead of sheet form.
1/4" aluminum plate. You can cut it with your wood-cutting circular saws and file or grind it easily.
Yes they are a form of buttress threads. That is a speed vise. The operator only has to loosen the screw a small amount to relieve tension and the lead screw pivots up and disengages the half nut allowing the jaw to be pulled back by hand, put a new piece in and drop the screw to engage the half nut.
Another thing about those Cardinal vises, that plate that gets the holes drilled in it is just a a plate. You can unbolt from the jaws/base, flip it over and reinstall, and it will look brand new.
Unless the other side looks like this:
Lol! Probably just a piece of cold rolled bar right? Seems like it could be made pretty easily.Unless the other side looks like this:
But Cardinal is still in business and $60 will get you a new plate. I'm cheap.
As per Cardinal, hardened tool steel. Which is why I didn't weld the holes.
They lie. It is tempered but not very hard. Drill bits barely notice the difference. Mild steel would work fine.
-It may have been hardened but was drawn back through tempering to a much softer or wasn't brought to full hard potential. If it was fully through hardened the only holes would be from carbide cutting edges, doesn't seen likely. It could even have been purchased in the annealed state from the mill. Annealed would be easier to machine and it doesn't take much of a stretch of the marketing imagination to regard annealed as being equal to "hardened tool steel". The jaw plates are described as hardened and ground alloy steel. Probably 4140, which is not really considered a "tool steel" but often used like it was for some components.
The jaws were definitely harder than the plate. I was able to easily draw-file the plate smooth and flat, but the jaws ate my file.
I'm very much NOT a fan of JBW.
I tried it at home, same thing. Here's a screenshot:
I will give the JBW trick a shot, it’s never going to be perfect
But think of the story you will have for visitors to your shop.
You call those drill marks? Hell, they're just beauty marks!
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Looks a lot like my 1956 Delta Rockwell 15in.
