Woo Hoo! He's back at it! Setting up shop sure takes time away from the fun stuff sometimes.
definitely but the worst is over with, just some final organizing left now so I have more play time
Nines: your shop is looking good. i like the new sign you made and are you putting that on the outside or inside of your garage? I'm not sure what the laws are in your area, but we need to be careful up here to not have commercial type shops in a residential area. also since you put up your exit sign i found one with some broken glass that i can wire for a light so picked it up just because.
Care to share how you took all the paint off your Reed 3C? I'm guessing since you have it in apart and in the jaws of your Craftsman that you are using a hand grinder with a wire cup or brush on it? it is looking good and not sure you are planning on painting it, but Jake and Fretters convinced me to use boiled linseed on my vises and bare steel and i think it looks pretty good.
here's a couple pictures of my Reed 4C that i traded a few vises to Jason for and he put boiled linseed oil on it before shipping it to me. your vise your color and didn't know if you had seen what a boiled linseed oil looked like on a big vise.
good luck getting that big vise back together because sometimes the main screw is a bit stubborn getting started. i think Jason put the dynamic jaw in first without the screw then put the screw in with the sleeve and broken nut after so posted a picture of his idea to put a vise on the back of the dynamic slide while he was doing this. if you want to post some before and after pictures of your Reed 3C on the Vise repair 101 thread that would be awesome with your comments if you have time.
keep up the great work.
The new sign is going inside, it's just for looks as I don't wrench on cars for a living and I'm certainly not running a repair shop in a residential neighborhood so there's no advertising or random customers dropping by daily. Post up that exit sign, I love old signs.
For the Reed, I wire cupped it on my outside workbench then clamped it in the vice inside to hand file the weld spatter the PO left on it. I start by washing it down with dawn dish soap and after it's clean and dry it goes to wire wheel, either on a bench grinder or since these castings are so heavy I used a 7" HF grinder with a wire cup brush. When it's all down to bare metal, I decide what will remain bare and polish it out then prime/paint the rest. I like the boiled linseed oil look on some vises but unfortunately this one needs some "makeup" to be pretty
I'm thinking machine gray or hammered black. I'm going to post the broken screw over in your repair thread now. Thanks for dropping in!
Is it okay to use your idea for the chevy grille and speakers? I got a '72 GMC grille that would look SWEET with 2 mini subs and 2 mids!
Only if you post progress! I got the idea from someone, who probably got it from someone else and there was a couple people here that got it from me when I posted in the "repurposed" thread. I have a 72 Chevrolet grill that will get another set of speakers for the other side of my shop, I'm just waiting to find a set of the headlight surrounds at the salvage yard as they were missing.
this is a 1.5 hp model
