[TheForge] Reclaiming leg vise with stripped threads

Thu Jul 11 15:03:00 2002

If you are not going for an authentic restoration,  you could buy some 
heavy acme threaded rod and matching nuts from McMaster and Carr.  A little 
welding and forging should give you a useful vise.

I have heard of:

A.   wrapping the male shaft with sq rod and brazing it on to make a thread.

B.  Restoring the female threads by pouring extra hard babbit around the 
least worn section of the male thread

Adam

At 01:49 PM 7/11/2002 -0500, you wrote:

>Reclaiming leg vise with stripped threads
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>The ABANA Forums: Tools and Tooling: Reclaiming leg vise with stripped
>threads
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>By Bill Mackey on Friday, July 05, 2002 - 01:26 pm:
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>I have two leg vises with stripped threads. Both male and female are bad on
>one. The other one might be ok if the female threads could be restored. Are
>the vises junk?
>By Bill Mackey on Thursday, July 11, 2002 - 12:42 pm:
>
>This is Bill Mackey again. I posted the inquiry about reclaiming leg vises
>with stripped threads. Since I have had no response in five days, I wonder
>if I have posted my question in the wrong place. Would someone advise me?
>Thanks. Bill
>
>
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>Please reply to Bill here: [email protected]
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>Or reply to the ABANA Forums
>Mr Mackey in not on TheForge
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>thanks dave m.
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