Garage sale find and miss

[Gennady]

What a disappointment - I picked up this vise today at garage sale for the price next to nothing and was so excited, so I did not bothered to open vise jaw. It was tightly closed and no handle was available. To my biggest disappointment that is what I found inside after bringing it home and starting to inspect closely

Abwood is not bad brand , but condition....

Now I have a dilemma - to use it as a drill vise (as it probably was used) or to try restoring it...? milling out damaged part, make an insert, attach it with several countersink screws, mill/grind together to a level. Yet another project.

 

[Susquatch]

If you need a drill press vise, that what I would do in your shoes.

It shouldn't be too hard to find a good vise for your mill.

 

[whydontu]

Make new jaws, fill in body craters with j-b weld and machine true. A couple of hours gets you a perfectly serviceable milling vise. Just because it looks like crap doesn’t mean it’s not salvagable.

 

[Elektrishun]

I guess I don't get the idea of drilling divots into a vise. I always use backing of some kind. It's just a vise, it's going to take abuse, but that seems like needless abuse.

Kind of like people who move shopping carts out of the way in parking lots with their car. It's going to get dings in time but...

Speaking of using backing for drilling, my son's friend who just got his journeyman's in sheet metal was over the other day talking about some of the general laborers he now has responsibility for. He told one guy that he should become a floor layer because twice now he has drilled through material into a finished floor.

 

[YotaBota]

Drilling into the base I can see but drill marks all over the body of the vise ?????????.

 

[JustaDB]

He told one guy that he should become a floor layer because twice now he has drilled through material into a finished floor.

Years ago I heard a story from an AGT (before they became Telus) employee. He had a coworker who was asked to install an extension phone in a rather large & open family room. There was a couch & chair set, a side table & a baby grand piano all on a hardwood floor. The customer wanted the phone on the side table by the couch.

He took his measurements, went down into the basement, mapped out the location, check & rechecked & readied the drill. He started drilling, went up a couple of inches, sawdust was still falling. Went upstairs, rechecked his measurements, everything checked OK. Back into the basement, drilled up about 6", sawdust still falling. Goes back upstairs, checks for a hole in the floor, nothing. Downstairs one more time, checks everything again, then proceeds to bury his 18" drill bit into the hole. Checks upstairs once more, can't find the hole or the drill bit.

Downstairs one more time. It was only then that he realized he had measured from an interior wall, rather than the exterior one.

He had drilled up into one of the legs of the baby grand...

 

[Elektrishun]

He had drilled up into one of the legs of the baby grand...

"Ma'am, 2 things - phone is installed but it appears you have termites."