rob_nc

Thanks ThomasPowers, that's good info! I bought the vise from a farm when I was living in England and got to use it a little but it's been in storage for far too long. 

Hi All, I'm new to the forum and just moved into my new place late summer and I'm excited to finally have the shop I've always wanted.

This is my postvise that will finally have a place to be used.

Everything works fine and other than rust and cobwebs everything turns smoothly and all of the threads are intact.

This is what it looked like for starters

After soaking overnight in evaporust and a lot of wire brushing, it's looking much better:

After overnight soaking

I want to decide what to do for a finish before I reassemble. In the original pictures you can see that there was some blue paint on it but based on the quality of the painting I think it was added later and wasn't original. 

I like the raw metal and thought about maybe just clear coating the non-working parts and oiling the rest.

I've also got to put together a floor plate of some sort since I'll be using it on a concrete slab floor. I found a scrapyard fairly close by and need to go rummage around there to see what I can find.

Does anyone know who/what the "JB" on the one leg might refer to? 

Thanks!