[TheForge] Re: Vise squad

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

I put a couple of O rings on the shaft...kinda loose on each side of the 
center ball ..trades pinched hands for some fumbling around at critical 
moments...mostly...PF

Mike Spencer wrote:
>>Done that. It had a ball and still gave me a nasty blood blister.
>>
>>You too?
> 
> 
> Yeah, couple-three times.  After the last time, I took a close look at
> the ball of the screw where the ball of the handle hits.  It was
> swaged up into a kind of sharp crater edge all around the eye.  (How
> many thousand handle-drops did it take to do *that* cold?)
> 
> Being carful not to gouge the handle too much, I ground that sharp
> edge off.  I'm hoping that little change will reduce the chances of
> another pinch.
> 
> 
>>>arc welded it onto the end....
>>
>> uhoh. the forge welding police will be stopping by.
> 
> 
> Oh, good.  I'll get a case of beer.  I'm not a great forge welder but
> I got my nihil obstat and imprimitur papers from the dread FWP after I
> made a damascus knife from a wrench, half a pair of tongs and an old
> tin stove cover.  Now I'm allowed to arc weld anything, provided I lie
> about it once in a while just for good form's sake. :-)
> 
> - Mike
>