[TheForge] Re: Vise squad

[Ralph Sproul]

Hi Mike,  You could try to roll an heavy diameter O-ring over the ball and
onto the shank - that helps with the handle/slide/blood blister thing.

On the other point of the FWP...........there just stopping by for the
beer......... (my guess anyway). :-)

Ralph
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Spencer" <mspencer at tallships.ca>
To: <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 12:10 PM
Subject: [TheForge] Re: Vise squad


>
> > 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
>
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