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Old 01-18-2014, 04:14 PM
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Making Lemonade from Lemons!

Got done forging a bit early today, so I thought I would see what I could do with the broken vise (the one in this thread: http://www.knifenetwork.com/forum/sh...ad.php?t=63144)

Luckily this was one of the vises that has a pipe vise on the other side of the conventional jaws. The hard part was setting it up in the milling machine so I could create a "step" and a flat area to inset the new jaws. At first I was gona just use some 1" square A36 for the jaws, but decided I wanted the versatility of either using the hardened jaws, or making it in such a way that I could remove the hardened jaws in case I needed some "soft" jaws.

After a couple of hours here's what I ended up with.....



There's no doubt that it will be a "light duty" vise, as I doubt it's got enough strength for me to "reef" on it.....but at least its usable again.



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Old 01-18-2014, 06:29 PM
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Looks good Ed. I like it. I have a vise that is stripped so it won't tighten. One of these days I have to bring it in for an exchange. I've had it for so long that they said they can't give me a straight up exchange but will give me a huge discount on a new one. We'll see what their huge discount is.
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I bought parts at a place once, if you can believe this name "viseparts.com". The vise was 40 years old and they had the part.
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Nice job, Ed!


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