John in Oly, WA

I finally got a stand built for this vise and got it up off the floor. It's hard to use a vise that's on the floor, and hard to use a vise that isn't anchored down somehow.

Now I just have to figure out what to do about the 1/2" base plate I warped welding the post and gussets on to it. Doh!

This weekend I made a stand for the vise I inherited from my grampa.

Oh nooooo!!!! The Banana Splits song!

Please don't let it replace "You Belong to Me", please don't let it replace "You Belong to Me", Please ... aw dang it! "One banana, two banana, three banana, four..."

Stopped by the local welding supply at lunch today. A small bottle of tri-mix - $200 just for the bottle, then I didn't ask the cost for the gas. I just bought a lb. of 316L sticks for $20.00. What can I say? I'm cheap.

2 hours ago, cedarghost said:

function reigns over form

I agree. You need functional reins when forming a good set of tongs!

Like Christmas and treasure hunting all rolled up into one!

Arkansas Traveler and Irish Washer Woman both familiar tunes, though I never knew I knew them.

Timtashun - just funny!

Frosty - it's "Drunken Sailor".
And I've had "Hallelujah" stuck in my head fairly recently too. There are a lot of good verses to that song that never seem to get recorded.

Always have had problems with my ears, I get those "earworms" all the time. LOL

Thanks Bubba! That's a good enough reason right there to go with stick welding it.

You're right Frank, I might be, but you know, it's rare that they write or sing songs like those oldies, so if I'm dating myself, that'll just have to be okay. Now I've got to look up those you listed.

For the last week I've had Jo Stafford's "You Belong to Me" going over and over in my head. And of all songs that could be stuck in my head, it's a pretty good one.

That's sort of what I thought at first glance JHCC - I've seen propane fired chicken coop heaters. Almost looks like one of those.

I need to weld some 1/4" 316 Stainless. I have a little Lincoln 135 Plus wire feed welder and .030 316L wire. And I have an Everlast PowerARC 200ST stick welder. Lincoln recommends tri-mix or 98%Ar/2%O2 for MIG welding. Should I rent a bottle of the tri-mix or Ar/O2 and MIG weld it with multiple passes or get the 316L stick and stick weld it (probably with multiple passes as well)? Which would you do if this was the equipment you had available?

2 hours ago, JHCC said:

...she still keeps my first anvil as a paperweight.

Parents are sentimental that way. Gotta love 'em!

Enjoy it when you get it! It looks like a great vise and it'll be a conversation piece as well.

Nice build! They're sure a handy tool to have in the shop.

I can't help but keep coming back to this post (wee pun).  

Keep drooling over this parallel jaw vise.

Interesting vise. So can you just pull on the handle and the jaw slides out, and then push it back in until the jaws engage the work and then tight the handle to apply force on the work?

Popular Mechanics pic of the vise -
https://books.google.com/books?id=qyUDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA146&lpg=PA146&dq=wilton+Schiller+Park+600+vise&source=bl&ots=zxJ3P_O9td&sig=Dzi06YxucS_FHuoBCbU9JkLjQSo&hl=en&ei=lxOyTdDpOMb30gGSmbywCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CFAQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=wilton Schiller Park 600 vise&f=false

I have a woodworker's vise that operates in that manner. Partial rotation of the handle "releases" it, then pull out (open), push back in until it touches the work and spin handle to tighten.

More info on them -

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?s=f2a3b5184ce011905c8c3cb57422402c&t=158676

I guess it doesn't work in the manner I described.

But, hey, it looks like it'll put 3 tons of pressure on whatever you're clamping when you get it working right.

More money than sense in that group of bidders.

Wondered if the seller was bidding it up themselves.

Nice bird!

Get a tripod for the camera. Makes forging and video-ing at the same time easier.

Sorry too for the loss of your dog. One of the harder aspects of life.

Your blacksmith work is very impressive. Congrats on your success with the fair.

Oh, if anvils could talk, they'd probably just ring on and on and on...

It just depends on how square you expect your square to be. It looks square to me!

11 minutes ago, Sanderson Iron said:

and don't care about precise size, it fits only one way.

Now that's my kind of machining. Most All of my work is the same.

Love all those belts and the tools they power. Got to be my favorite era of tools.

Michael, you are correct. The motor belt goes to a small pulley (2" dia. if I remember correctly). That small pulley is on an 18" keyed shaft that runs through two pillow blocks with the grinding belt drive wheel mounted on the other end. Take a look at the last picture in the set of pics I posted above and you can see the first pillow block. The pic above that one shows the drive wheel and just a bit of the second pillow block. if you need more photos, let me know. Pillow blocks and keyed shaft were purchased off eBay.

My big 7" angle grinder with a wire wheel on it is high on the list, but I know how to use it. The shaper is the tool I won't even use. Actually don't really have any use for it, but it boils down to not having any experience with it that makes it the tool I think of as the most dangerous.