TWISTEDWILLOW

I see your point mr powers, I was just curious.

Is it possible to take them back apart and then fold them in half to make them thicker? Maybe then they would not have as much flex in them?

They kinda look like old lawnmower blades but I could be wrong.

Here’s one of my older grinders/lawn ornaments. It’s a diamond machine company grinder and matching base. It’s a flat belt drive and pretty heavy I think it was either built for use with in a lineshaft shop or maybe powered off a old tractor pto. I thought if I ever find an old hit and miss engine it would be cool to hook it up but till then it’s just a lawn ornament. The Babbitt bearings seem to be in excellent shape but the one of the stones doesn’t fit correctly on the shaft and I never got around to finding another wheel or building a spacer to help it balance out. Somebody painted over the old machinery green with black an purple but you can see it peeking through in places.

Very nice!

Swedefiddle, I found out what you mean on the flex, after I got the holes drilled and bolted down the vise, the stand wasn’t near as ridgid as I thought it would be, when pulling on the handle you can watch the ibeam and plate flex. I’ll most definitely be taking your advice and I’ll add some channel to stiffen it up, Thanks for the tip

Very cool!

I’m not an expert by any means but I think the problem with cast iron anvils is how brittle cast iron is. I’ve got lots of antique tools and machines hanging around my shop and more than once I’ve dropped or knocked over something over made of cast iron and it just cracks or chips or knocks a chunk out of whatever it was. So I imagine that an cast iron anvil could and would be potentially dangerous if you were really working hard on it. But agin I’m not an anvil expert I’m just a beginner.

Irondragon, yes the bottom plate is 26”x30” and when I did a mock up before welding it all together I was able to stand on the plate with the vise.

Thank you for the advice Neil I was wondering if I would need to add gussets on the main support but you answered that thought for me.

Thanks irondragon

Just started building my vise stand today I’ll get it finished up tomorrow. I used 1/4” plate and 4”x10” ibeam. I still have to drill the mounting holes and weld on the socket for the foot.

Well that’s a decent enough price for a bench vise of any brand. Good find!

I’ve found vises,tools and machines around my area just by asking around, also another thing I do is sometimes I’ll offer to do clean outs and haul offs or help people move to their new place especially if they are moving off an old homestead or their new owners are wanting to clean up a old property they just bought. Either way you can find all kinds of tools cheap and get paid to do it. Just throwing out another idea that might help you find the vise your looking for.

I’m no expert on William foster anvils but I do have one and comparing the two it looks like that one is missing the heel and the hardy hole it might have broke off long ago and been ground back clean agin but I don’t know if it’s made that way either. But I’m sure someone else on here with more experience can give you better information.

Thank you jlpserviceinc, the 1928 Westinghouse motor on the champion is burnt up I need to take it and get it rewound. I’ve got a modern 1hp driving the old silver mfg drill.

Ballast, that’s a sweet looking anvil, that’s cool that it has three sizes of pritchel holes.

Champion blower and forge company model 50e

If I remember correctly Holland’s vises were bought out by the yost vise company sometime around the 40s. That’s all I know about Holland’s vises maybe someone else can be of more help.

Thank you guys for your time and Input sharing your experience, I appreciate it. I’ll start pulling out everything I’ve been collecting and give it a go this weekend

I agree with y’all, my two Peter wrights are smaller then that one but they both have the same feet as yours and With the same circle saying solid wrought.

USS Mesa verde 2006/2010 boatswainsmate

There a read this first section that helps to explain how everything works here. I had to read it a couple times because I missed and forgot a few things.

Had to google it to see what those were, I never heard of them before. That is a good idea, I don’t have one but It made me think about hardware cloth down at the feed store when I saw the pictures. The ground has been sopping wet around here lately but I could dry out the red dirt next to my wood stove in the shop. you have gave me another good idea I’ve gotta go into town tomorrow and pick up some feed I’ll look and see what all they got laying around that I could use for a screen.