TWISTEDWILLOW Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 Very nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gewoon ik Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 This beauty followed me home after i paid it to stop following the previous owner. Now i have to make a support for it. Some cleaning and a broken weld on the little table to be repaired. How high is recommended for mounting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 Nice score! Was it a good price? Don't worry about replacing the "little table" that's the mounting plate and obviously not original to the vise. Make one that suits the location you wish to mount it. Height depends on what you plan on using it for. If you want to do hand work in it like a bench vise than the top of the jaws should be about elbow height with your arms at your side. If on the other hand you wish to do hammering in it then you want it close to anvil height. Probably about where the bottom of the leg rests on the floor now. This of course depends on YOUR height and comfort ranges. Of course those are just my opinions. I could be wrong. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 Mounting height depends on how YOU are going to use it. I generally mount mine so the end of the leg is on my floor and then use the vise that is best height for filing, pounding twisting, bending etc as I have several at differing heights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gewoon ik Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 Since I only have one, it will be pounding. Grinding or filing I can always take a seat. So stake on the ground, it has the same hight as my welding table or is 20cm higher than my anvil. Thanks. Frosty, price was nice. 25 euros. Cheap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 Very nice find. If I get a couple more orders, I think I might keep an eye out for a vise with a shortened or missing leg, as my current vise (which I otherwise love) is rather too tall for comfortable pounding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 My main vise is also a little too tall, for making it shorter, I raise the floor when needed. One of the advantages of a dirt/gravel floor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 I have a small wooden platform stashed by the heavy pounding vise to use when doing heavy work and want the vise "lower". Students are amazed what another 4-6 inches can do for them when needing to hammer down on stuff. (Of course I tell them that if they fall off the platform and break their leg, a horse farm is 10' to the east and there is an arroyo running through it...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jobtiel1 Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 Nice score on the vise! I went to multiple flea markets last weekend. I happened to come across a cast iron figure of some blacksmiths at work, couldn't let that sit there! I also got a small square, a wooden plane, and some auger bits for the hand drill. ~Jobtiel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 Neat plaque, it looks like they're making pipe Ts. Nice score. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gewoon ik Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 I will install the vise and see about the height. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 Jobtiel That would have made a good addition to the blacksmith in art thread on here somewhere. Whar will you mount it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 That is an interesting plaque. Forging pipe T's isn't something I think about in forging since they are all cast now, or machined. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jobtiel1 Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 Yeah I agree, it's not something you think about and interesting to see the process like this. It looks to be somewhat true to how it used to be done too with the different tools and stuff. I'm still deciding how I will mount it, either with some forged hardware, or mounted onto something wooded and then nailed to the wall with forged nails. I do have to make sure it can't fall off. I will mount it in the shed on the wall across my anvil. ~Jobtiel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazz Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 Attended an estate sale on Saturday and scored a few things. I primarily went to it as I was interested in the power hammer that was for sale but it was highly valued by the seller and not really one that i had ever considered (see my other post in the power hammer forum). I made an offer of $1000 for it after I got home and after doing some research but didn't find much (like nothing) about that particular hammer. It sold for $1700 on Sunday in any case so no more consideration required. I am headed back there today to pick through the leftovers today. There is a large swage block and stand that had a low earth orbit price at the official sale that I think is still there so maybe the price has become reasonable. Also there is a piece of plate that is maybe 2.5" thick by 2.5'x 4' that would make a great shop table but I a have no place for it and moving it would be a serious task given what I have available to work with. Curious that the stakes made by Pexto have no vertical posts for the stake plate and look like they never had any. The two wheeled thing in the second picture is a Portaband that came with 6 new blades. I was bummed to learn that somebody had gone through my big canvas hopping bag and took two wood handle punches that were new and I paid for them. The really large calipers are Brown & Sharpe. Also not very visible is a high lift jack. I can't say how much I paid for fear of being arrested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les L Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 Nice haul Gazz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 Mail call, I was talking with Thomas the other day an he said he has used paraffin wax on some of his stuff so I ordered a pound of it to try out myself! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 You had to order paraffin wax? Nobody in Peavine do any canning? Even gas station quicky marts carry Paraffin wax here. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 Ain’t No stores in peavine, I literally have the only business here an we only stock belts and carb kits, they prolly have it in town in stilwell an Westville but considering fuel prices cost more to drive to town and back then I paid for the wax, it’s just as easy an cheap to stay home an wait on the free shipping, besides it gives the rural carriers a job! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 Gotta love that free shipping with Amazon too. The driver just delivered some stuff that we ordered about 2 days ago. Welding Anti spatter spray, Nozzle Gel, Mig welding gun parts kit and Dykem steel blue layout fluid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goods Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 Walmart usually has paraffin wax with the canning supplies, probably in most farm stores as well for the same purpose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted August 24, 2022 Share Posted August 24, 2022 I like it for cooking gear as it's food safe and easier than seasoning the steel. Also easy to apply and doesn't mind typical NM conditions---like dust. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted August 24, 2022 Share Posted August 24, 2022 Goods, Wally World!!! are you crazy?!?! i cant go in there and come back out again for less than the cost of a used anvil!!! Lol we already order stuff online pretty regularly so it nothin to throw somethin extra on the shipment an just wait a day or two for it to show up, Besides not all of us have a fuel efficient moose an cart to get us to town an back! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted August 24, 2022 Share Posted August 24, 2022 Scrapyard tomorrow, lets hope I find some more stuff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted August 24, 2022 Share Posted August 24, 2022 That’s just whatcha need Thomas! more “stuff”!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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