I liked this video because despite the few means available, the restoration of the bench vice was done well and with a lot of willpower.

Interesting - I've seen several videos on REALLY big/strong Heuer vises, but not a small one. BTW, you may or may not know that this is a forged vise, not a cast one, so it's a lot stronger than you might think.

You put much work into restoring this fine vise. Thank you for sharing, and God Bless!

@isographer

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

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Great job. Really nice vise, well worth the restoration. Your other vise looks good also. Time to give it a redo?

@isographer

3 ай бұрын

Hy, thanks for the kind words. To be frank it will not happen soon as the second vise is a locally produced one (Romania) in the 1990's and is not as valuable and is quite common around here. Furthermore, it is the vise I abuse the most and sees a lot of grinding, hammering and bashing not to forget all those times I've clamped something in it and heated up with a blowtorch... so unfortunately it won't get pretty any time soon.... I just oil the main screw and sliders from time to time.

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Now that’s a good moveable vise that base is probably heavy enough to allow some medium duty work without it becoming unstable! I’m sure it will be handy for you, I know it would be for me

@isographer

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Part of the reason I decided to use that configuration (movable metal base) was the fact that I have decided to only use this particular vise for light to medium duty work, as to preserve it as much as possible. I do have another vise that I use and abuse and it is a common model here where I live so preserving this 100 Yrs old German vise seemed like a good idea.