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

[Patty Draper/Bill Robertson]

To those of you who have crummy scrap yards, think how we feel here with a 
good one but with Jeff Valentine living in the area.  He told us that last 
year the scrap yard workers bought "him" a bottle of whiskey at Christmas!!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barking Crow" <mail at barkingcrow.com>
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Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 7:46 AM
Subject: [TheForge] Re: God, I love the junkyard. A huge post vise!


> Dann,
>
> Like you, I can't yet figure out why the threads on this huge vise are
> stuck.  Yesterday evening with my 21 year old son (the human cheater bar)
> helping me we were able to with the utmost difficulty and by repeatedly
> parking the Subaru on the vise jaws to keep it from moving unscrew the 
> male
> threaded part so that now there are several inches of beautiful rust free
> shiny threads showing.   It did get slightly looser although I can still 
> not
> unscrew it at all by myself unless its set up so that I can jump on the
> cheater bar while the Subaru is parked on the vise.  I'm happy that I'm
> still able to move this morning but I do have a significant amount of back
> tension and stiffness.  I asked my son if he could tell that he'd been 
> doing
> all that pulling and lifting and he thought for a moment and said that yes
> he could because his shorts were still dirty.
>
> The casted female cone part of the threads on this vise is not stuck in 
> the
> jaws, but moves in and out freely.  I'll just have to wait till we get it
> apart and inspect and clean the cone threads to hopefully find out why it 
> is
> so stiff.   I don't think it is a case of the cone being flipped half a 
> turn
> in the fixed jaw as it has that projection that fits into the slot on the
> fixed jaw to keep the cone from rotating when you turn the male part, but
> I'll definitely look into that further when we get it apart all the way.
>
> Did you have to do anything to the male threads?  I'm thinking that if I
> can't get the screw to work smoothly I may try sanding a little off the
> threads as I can't think of anything else to do.  At least this beautiful
> vise is keeping my mind off all the real problems that I normally worry
> about.  What a treat.
>
> Thanks,   Jeff
>
>
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