Pedro Lima

the things are going badly. i've just found a 1 inch deep hole between the cracks filled by rust and i only have stick welder to handle it. i don't know what to do

thanks for the advices, my friends. i finally moved to the same city that my workshop is and now i will have time to do all repairs necessary i started to grind those cracks and i realize that is deepper than i thought. i readed in somewhere that i need to take off all cracks before weld it, otherwise will crack it again. i think that if i try to do that i'm gonna need to cut off all the jaw and weld it together. how deeper i need to grind to have a good grip? i'm really nervous cuz i never did something like that before and i'm very frustrated about find those cracks. i just wanted not need to worry about it

Hi guys. Over the weekend, I cleaned the leg vise and unfortunately I found small cracks at the sides of the jaws. The shape of the cracks on all sides is the same, so I do not know if it's really a crack or a forging weld mark. Should I worry about these cracks? What should I do about it. I plan on grinding these cracks by making a small gap between and fill-with 7018 stick welder. What do you think? i drew it up for you to have an idea of the shape of the cracks. i'm also did a file test and in fact the jaws is not hardened like i supposed to, so now i'm more confortable to repair the jaws. i was afraid to repair and change the heat treat or something like that. i'm very busy until the christmas but after that i'm gonna be with time to do all repairs that i need for let this little leg vise like new

Thanks for the advices, Thomas. I'm going to make this fix this weekend. I had not thought about increasing the thickness of the jaw before. it really is thinner than other post vises i've seen on the internet. i'll try to do this and not mess it up with erverything hehe about the language. i am studying to get better on this. i make a lot of mistakes yet and i need to go to google translator for many things, but there is no learning without mistakes, isn't it. thanks for the welcome o/ i'll set it on my profile right now, ok.

Hi. my name is Pedro. i from Brazil. this is my first topic here. sorry about my poor english but i'm trying do my best with a google translation help hehe Recently i started to building my workshop and this weekend i found and bought a 4"1/2 leg vise that was covered by a lot of paint. so i cleaned it up and i descovered thar the jaws of my leg vise have so much rust that make holes on the steel. i want to know how can i possible repair this rust holes. the good news is that everything is aligned and there is no cracking or seriously damage to be concerned , so i am thinking to grind what i can and fill this holes with a 7018 stick welder i don't know if this is necessary but i want try to maintain the original appearance without this horrible rust holes BUT i readed that the body is made by wrought iron and the jaws is made by hardened steel so i'm afraid of put to much heat on the jaws with a sick welder and damage my vise. has anyone here that had the same experience as me? how did you do to repair that rust damage? this is the pictures of my poor rusted vise. this oranges spots is ink that i couldn't remove because of rust holes on it

interesting toy hehe :D