October 4, 201510 yr Crazy Ivan Came to my shop today to forge and teach me a bit. He's pretty good with tooling but after poking around and seeing a smaller post vice I had sitting there with a broken mount I asked him if we could make a new mount for it. His mind started working and in no time he dug up a piece of steel and had an idea. Well all I can say is that post vice is fully functional again and I learned a lot from the experience. He has more pictures and may be doing a post on it but here is the picture of the mount beside the broken nub. We worked it a tad more after the picture. But it's fully functional again. There is something to be said of learning from someone first hand. It's Thank you. I'll be glad to have him back anytime and will try to help in what ways I can.
October 4, 201510 yr I keep getting the forbidden bug. I'll keep trying to post pictures. In the second picture you see the parent stock. The line closest to you in the picture ws cut from the stock. Going up, you see two vertical lines which were cut away leaving the center column which was folded and welded to create the eye to accept the bar and wedge to hold the bracket to the vice. The furthest section in the image was split down the center and each piece was drawn down and curves/punched to make the mounting points. It worked out well and I had a good time making it. Another vice restored to good working order!
October 4, 201510 yr Nice. I've never really sat back and thought about how to go about making that bracket. I'll have to look closer at the ones on my two vises out in the shop next time I'm there.
October 4, 201510 yr Very educational will file this away in the grey matter for future use. Goes to show 2 people of the same interests can't spend time together without someone learning something. Edited October 4, 201510 yr by notownkid
October 4, 201510 yr Nice piece of work.Ivan, please extend your travels to Australia!!I would love to one day. Always wanted to check it out down there.
October 4, 201510 yr Greetings Ivan,Glad to see you are alive and well. Keep us posted on your journey. The forge is always open..Forge on and make beautiful thingsJim
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