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I consider this a preservation more than a restoration. Restoration is a whole other level. There was hours of time spent at the wire wheel and bead blast cabinet. I hired out the blasting of the frame. Glad I did! The Pump was a challenge. It was bronze and extremely heavy. Once I had shortened the boom on my engine hoist It didn't lift high enough to clear the frame. I ended up lowering the frame. . If you want more info on the work I can do that. All i can say is I'm glad I lived long enough to see it thru. The one picture is of it stripped down at the museum after they painted it the 'proper Seagrave red'.

Ah...Ok ..well I got the box part right. I've restored a few post vises and always wished I could find replacements. I'm a welder/ mechanic by trade but I was always interested in anything metal. I have the tool now to set up a small forge. Just have to put a shop together. I never had the opportunity to use a 3d printer but I know that a good one can print a nut and bolt and the nut will screw off the bolt when it is done. I was just throwing it out there. Maybe somebody that is more connected to the tec world could figure it out. It would be nice. thanks. This was my last project of 8 yrs. It is in a museum outside of Cincinnati now. I learned a lot about moving sheet metal. I'm really looking forward to getting the forge going.

On a post vise it would be the center of the vise that contain the female threads for the jaws. They tend to wear out over the years. I know it is the first thing I check on any desent looking vise. There are no replacements available anywhere. I have even read of guys using scaffold leg screws and adapting them in. I know that making one is probably be more costly than buying another vise but I have found some really nice post vise with hardly any thread in the nut. Just seems there would be someone that has tried it.

Has anybody tried to make a nut box using a 3d printer to create a pattern.