[TheForge] God, I love the junkyard. A huge post vise!

[Frederick Faller]

Put the whole thing in a tank and do the electrolytic
rust removal for about a week. I had an old PV that
had laid on the deck of an abandoned house about 50 ft
from the ocean for three years and was frozen solid.
Put it in the tank and with a little electricity and
some elbow grease, got the whole thing working fine.

Put it in the tank for three days, pull it brush it
off and try to free the joints. Once you break the
joints free so the liquid can get down inside them,
the rust will come out pretty quick and get it all
working.

With a little work you won't be able to tell it was
rusted at all.

Frederick Faller
--- Barking Crow <mail at barkingcrow.com> wrote:
> Ok, its very rusty and doesn't have a handle but it
> weighs 190 lbs and has 7
> 5/8" jaws.  The screw is 1 15/16 " in diameter.   I
> was trying to figure out
> how to get it in my car when a huge guy came over
> and picked it up and set
> it in.  So far I have gotten the jaws to move only
> 1/16 of an inch using
> some splitting wedges (they were stuck open 1 5/16" 
> and now are 1 3/8 full)
> I'm soaking the lower jaw attachment with PB blaster
> after scraping out a
> lot of rust and I'm trying to get penetrating oil
> down in the screw which
> has moved I think a couple of degrees with a big
> prybar in the hole where
> the handle should be. I'm encouraged that it will
> unfreeze as I dug some old
> hard grease out of the threads where the screw goes
> into the female thingy.
> The end of the screw with the hole for the handle is
> 3" square and 4" long.
> Some one has welded the spring to the fixed jaw and
> welded a small bracket
> to the fixed jaw that was apparently used to mount
> it.     Hard to say if
> it'll make it to a functioning vise, but its gonna
> provide alot of
> entertainment one way or the other.  Any
> suggestions?   I hope I won't have
> to take the bolt out of the plate that holds the
> moveable jaw as it was a
> nightmare on a smaller one.
> 
> I had to tell someone.  My wife just couldn't share
> my excitement.
> 
> Jeff in Tallahassee where we're dangerously close to
> the end of the cool
> weather
> 
> 
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Frederick W. Faller
Shiloh Forge Ironware http://users.rcn.com/ffaller/SFI_web.htm
www.immerland.com

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