If life gives you lemons… derust an old vice and feel good about life.
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Beautiful. Just beautiful.
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Man restores rusted cast-iron vise to pristine Condition
Mark’s posting (tool) porn eh? 
must be his vise
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The most impressive thing to me about The New Yankee Workshop was the goddamned forty layers of primer, varnish, and wax he would put on his pieces. The last ten minutes of every episode was Norm with a rag rubbing something.
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Agreed. That was conservator-level work.
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I got sucked into My Mechanics channel earlier this week when youtube suggested it after watching some AvE.
That led to a video by Random Hands that did some electrolysis on an antique pipe cutter. Interestesting stuff, and it was used on two parts that were stuck together, and remained quite stuck even after electrolysis.
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Patina can be attractive.
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I don’t see that much difference between someone who’s spent considerable time and money restoring an old (generally undesirable even when new) car and someone who’s also invested time/money in anything else that would normally be otherwise trashed. For such people, I’m sure there’s a lot of personal pride (and enjoyment) in raising “the dead”.
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I don’t know WHY it is named that, but it is part of the cast lettering on the side. Well… it just says Columbian, but given its stature, I suggest calling it THE Columbian.
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All that work pissed away on a vise that you can’t use effectively because the BACK jaw travels - yeah, right back OVER your bench, so you can only hold something that is 6" tall. Strange that it was manufactured in the first place.
Being a bit of a maniac, I built my own vice (though I do have many others in my shop!) here’s a too-long video about my bench and the vise (skip to 4:30 to see the vise). https://youtu.be/SST0WSdDHgE
Cheers!
Charles
www.charleswaugh.com if ‘ns ya’ wanna see my art
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That actually DOES make sense. Like… The Whopper!
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The fine Colombian. Make tonight a wonderful thing.
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what the hell?
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a vise faq
Columbian: Columbian Vises, like Reeds are good stout, simple vises that usually don’t have a lot of flash. They were made in Cleveland Ohio. Columbian vises are still available today, but only the higher-priced ones are still made in America. The Chinese made units do not stand the abuse, not have the mass of their older, stronger cousins. A “Columbian” in a big box store today is not a desirable vise for heavy work…
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I would imagine that some applications favor rigidity over flexibility.
Grandpa was a machinist. It is a pretty robust little vice. I just dont have space for it right now.
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