Restoring Grandpa's Vice / DIY [4K]
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- Timelapse video of me restoring my grandfathers old Erie Tool Works Vice that my grandmother recently had given me. Erie (Lake View Forge) is known custom for making custom forges for Chevy, Modern Industries, General Electric, John Deere and other parts for the US Military. The original green color had been rusted, painted over as well as covered in epoxy. With some elbow grease and a bit of polish and paint, I got this bench vice looking like new and ready for another fifty plus years of service.
Thanks for watching!
Shot on a Sony A6300 w/ Sony 18-105 and 35mm OSS lens in 4K.
Visuals ©Harley Grady 2018
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finally! A restorer not wearing gloves! OOps, I spoke too soon. He chickened out.
Makes a great paper weight holding my newspapers in the tool shed.
I restored my grandpa’s vice as early as from 13 years old🤦♂️ ...but I’m still looking for his vise, though! 😂
Orthography aside, nice restoration work. Thumbs up👍
Very nice clean up and nice you painted it like the original.
What a difference a little clean up and paint makes.
Checked out your channel. Cool interests. Not a bad restoration on the vise. I wouldn’t have painted the slide, would’ve used some primer, and taken the jaws off to clean them but other than that well done. Thanks for sharing.
I tried to take the jaws off. However they were epoxied on. Off camera I spent some time heating the screws up trying to remove it. No success. It's a vice that going to get used. If it gets scuffed it gets scuffed. The point was to remove the 50years of crap build up on it lol. Thanks for watching!
Harles99 still turned out looking pretty sharp. 👍🏻
Thank you ! learned some things along the way too Ryno H
nice restoration but metal on metal shouldnt be painted because of friction thereby destroying the nice paint job. just my 2 cents
Yep, and the jaws should have been pulled and cleaned up. However, some is always better than none.
Think he may have painted it bc it looked like it was previously painted.
I can't get over the color... It's just...
Green!.... I mean.... Green!... Non the less candy apple green... Jikess
Very good restoration 🔥🔥🔥👍👍👍👍
Man, You really did a Excellent Job on your Grandfathers Vise. It looks so Beautiful and New! It really came out Awesome. Great Job Bro, keep the restoration vids coming lol. Take care buddy and Thanks for Sharing.
That was great. Loved it.
Thanks!
Beautiful job
Great job
It looks like you didn’t get the retaining ring clamped in place which allows the screw to push the jaws open. If you heat the ring red hot it would bend shut easier and then at the end of the video could demonstrate that the the vise is restored to full functionality by screwing it open.
wow, vice classic
why didnt you use primer before painting ??
Self priming paint?
Just picked a no 43 superior vise at an estate sale. Info on web is limited, do you know when your grandfather purchased it? It seems like an hardy tool. Great job on restoration, the color green you chose is almost an exact match to mine's original color.👍
cool bro
Primer too expensive?
I have the exact same vise. It was in my garage when I bought my house last month and it’s missing the jaw pads. Anyone know where I can get replacements??? I can’t find anything online
You’ll probably have to fabricate some up.
TAD gear!
I have a vise that is a Columbian that is the exact same casting just different letters
This was more a tart-up of a little handy-man’s vise, not a restoration. As others have said, no primer, places painted that will cause problems for someone later and nothing attempted on re-squaring the jaw faces. Handy little vise though...
You could have done a better job cleaning the screw. It still looks rusty but otherwise nice job.
there´s different approaches to restoration: one is to preserve the current state from deterioration, one is to restore and preserve functionality but also leave some patina in place, and one is the as-new approach. the first is mostly done in scientific context (like archaeology), the second is to allow a piece to show its age but ask for full functionality and is what this gentleman obviously aimed for, and the third is what usually amateurs do, which usually destroys the charm of an old piece and leaves the question, why not to buy new if a thing has to look and work like new?
Bad restoration is better than no restoration, but not by much. I don't think you could have found a more hideous shade of green to paint that poor vice.
John Deere Green is the original color of the vice. Erie Tool Works made parr’s for John Deere.
Great first try for a beginner but you need to go back to paint school.
This wasn’t a restoration, it was just a clean up and a paint job. A disappointing effort on a vise that could have used a good restoration to bring it back to when it was new. The paint applied directly to the cleaned iron will last less than a year if someone actually uses this vise on a daily basis, I wasn’t impressed by this video effort!
Robert Kohler I wasn’t impressed by this comment.
Real Men don't wear gloves to work in or shorts and rubber flip-flops. Get a grip man!
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