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

[Jerry Frost]

Oh THANKS Jeff!

Remind me just how crappy the local junkyards are around here.

<sigh>

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


> 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
>
>