[TheForge] Re: vice repair

[Bob Ehrenberger]

 -----Original message-------
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 23:20:50 -0700
From: Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer <artgawk at thegrid.net>
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Vice repair

Hi Bob;
I was wrestling with my old lathe trying to get it to cut a
replacement female thread for a stripped 6" Colombian vise i was
given....my wife said, " Why don't you buy one". I said that
they'd been out of business for 40 years probably....but she
meant the thread.
Couldnt find an economical acme thread that was as fast, but
bought a slower one and a 3" coupling nut to match. Some
cutting,welding and grinding later it seems to work just fine...PF

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Peter,

This would have been my non-lathe solution before I noticed how the original
vice was made.

I'm sure that better vices have cut threads. I've used this one for 8 years,
and
who knows how many years use were on it before I got it. If I had kept it
better
lubricated it may have never given me any trouble.

Robert Ehrenberger
Shelbyville, Mo.
eforge at centurytel.net