Frosty Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 Good score, I LOVE lockers, they're soooo handy. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Blythin Posted May 16, 2012 Share Posted May 16, 2012 A friend of mine has a junk removal business. He was driving past yesterday, saw me working outside and stopped. He was on his way to the scrap yard to drop off a load, but asked me if I had any use for this odd vise before he scrapped it. I don't really know anything about it, but its obviously meant for sheet metal / thin plate. The jaws are 9" wide, but only open 1/4". It was free, and bound for the scrap, so I'm sure I can find a use for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will. K. Posted May 16, 2012 Share Posted May 16, 2012 Its a vise for holding a wood saw for sharpening it with files Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkrankow Posted May 16, 2012 Share Posted May 16, 2012 Its a vise for holding a wood saw for sharpening it with files Useful for all kinds of sheet metal work too! Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfshieldrx Posted May 17, 2012 Share Posted May 17, 2012 A friend of mine has a junk removal business. He was driving past yesterday, saw me working outside and stopped. He was on his way to the scrap yard to drop off a load, but asked me if I had any use for this odd vise before he scrapped it. I don't really know anything about it, but its obviously meant for sheet metal / thin plate. The jaws are 9" wide, but only open 1/4". It was free, and bound for the scrap, so I'm sure I can find a use for it. Dont try to clamp anything "too" thick. If you do, you run the risk of cracking it since cast iron does'nt have much "give". (Dont ask me how I know this... :unsure: bart) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciladog Posted May 17, 2012 Share Posted May 17, 2012 A friend of mine has a junk removal business. He was driving past yesterday, saw me working outside and stopped. He was on his way to the scrap yard to drop off a load, but asked me if I had any use for this odd vise before he scrapped it. I don't really know anything about it, but its obviously meant for sheet metal / thin plate. The jaws are 9" wide, but only open 1/4". It was free, and bound for the scrap, so I'm sure I can find a use for it. That is not a vise. It is used to hold handsaws for sharpening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Blythin Posted May 17, 2012 Share Posted May 17, 2012 Thanks for helping to identify this thing guys! I had no idea what it was. I've got plenty of old saws kicking around the garage, so I can put it to good use for its intended purpose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hayden H Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 What are those kinda vises worth? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iron woodrow Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 A friend of mine has a junk removal business. He was driving past yesterday, saw me working outside and stopped. He was on his way to the scrap yard to drop off a load, but asked me if I had any use for this odd vise before he scrapped it. I don't really know anything about it, but its obviously meant for sheet metal / thin plate. The jaws are 9" wide, but only open 1/4". It was free, and bound for the scrap, so I'm sure I can find a use for it. mate, dont ever let him take a load without you checking it!!!! if he hadnt seen you, he wouldnt have stopped probably, and this would be getting melted!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJRF100 Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 I found a Montgomery Ward power hacksaw at a garage sale. Swapped the electric motor for one I had around and I was cutting in no time. Paid $20. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macbruce Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 I found a Montgomery Ward power hacksaw at a garage sale. Swapped the electric motor for one I had around and I was cutting in no time. Paid $20. Had one just like it,good saw. Careful when lifting the bar with the rod that you keep your fingers only on the outside, that is NOT between the nut that holds the bar and the slide......A friend of mine lifted the bar and for some reason put his index finger there with the other 3 fingers outside(safe) while it was running and the tip of his index finger got crushed between the nut and the slide......... :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bentiron1946 Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 I have one very similar, a wonderful tool, keep it well oiled and it will go for many more years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Kehler Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 I just got this one, a Velox, 6" capacity cost me $100 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
journey333 Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 I picked this 14" Makita Mitre saw up for $60 at the Habitat For Humanity ReStore the other day.I immediately went and got a metal blade for it. Then I went home and built myself an anvil stand out of re-used 4x4's. Getting closer to having a working smithy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
divermike Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 Recently I was contacted by a guy who was cleaning out a barn and had some old smithing tools, he wanted them to go to some actual blacksmiths, I got a 200 lb swage block and several stakes, almost all of it went to the new Arc and Flame Center in Rochester NY, but I did keep one stake to add to my collection, and the smaller stake in the block of wood came from the Tim Kris collection, I picked it up from Blacksmith Barn yesterday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KYBOY Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 My first "deal" in a while and im a flea market regular..Got this real nice wagon toungue vice for $35..Just need to forge that little bent bar for the bottom of the bracket.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macbruce Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 I can understand your enthusiasm but there's no need to gloat, one thread was plenty nuff........... :angry: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elemental Metal Creations Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 I'll give you $40, and pay shipping.! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marksnagel Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 A friend of mine in West Virginia has a portable saw mill and is about to build a log cabin. He wants to have me make all the hinges for the doors. He dropped off four 5ft diameter wheel skeins (wrought). I took some pictures of them today. You can see, well I can, the grain of the iron in them. Hopefully the pictures will do them justice. Here is where the ring was forge welded. There are lateral marks where the ring was heated and struck to enlarge the diameter. The grain of the iron is visable. Hope the pics show enough detail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bentiron1946 Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 Divermike, Let me know next time you get some more stakes like that, I may be interested. I bought a silversmith stake at an estate sale Friday and have been working at getting all the pits and dings out, it's starting to look kind of decent now. I have finished with the 80 grit paper and have started on the first go around with with the 120 to see how well I did with the file and 80 grit. I found a few places that still need to worked on with the file to get some of the deeper pitting out. Still it will be worth all the work I'm putting into it when I finished. KYBOY, That's a nice vise, there was one on Ebay that went for a couple of hundred a month or so ago, you done good on that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 My last rummage through the local rural scrapyard turned up a PEXTO stake plate in mint condition, less than US$10 too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
territorialmillworks Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 My employer decided to go with a new hardware supplier which included all new nuts/bolts and cabinets. They had me spending two days sorting out the old stock and then decided not to mix it with the new stock. They offered this cabinet and all the bolts that I had sorted out LOL. Hundreds of dollars worth of inventory.....no more running to the local hardware store Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaughnT Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 Great score, hoss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 Wow, *sorted* nuts and bolts and in a cabinet---tis a find indeed. I was just happy to find the remains of somebody's bolt collection dumped in a bucket at the scrap yard---very handy to have some on hand when it would cost more in gas to get to town than buying the bolts on a project would... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
journey333 Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 Came across these big bar clamps while I was picking up my new-to-me post vise. I couldn't pass them by.One says "Tatum" and "1892", the other "Black Bros. Co." There is a date, but I couldn't quite read it. They are 56" long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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