Ride Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Can you help me identify this vise? Also do I need to reface the thrust washer face? Screw and box are excellent. Thanksfor your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swedefiddle Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Happy New Year, Ride If you put your area of where you are making a shadow, in your avatar, people will know who lives near you. Looks like the Vice needs a good cleaning and lubricating. I have access to roller thrust bearings (clutch release bearings), which I add to the thrust washer. It is entirely up to you, it is not necessary. You can put some grease, lubriplate, bear grease, on the thrust faces too. It doesn't matter who made it, or when. Enjoy it!! Neil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ride Posted January 1 Author Share Posted January 1 (edited) Thank you. Happy new year. Just curious about its history. I'll be working on it the next few days. So that thrust face looks normal? I was wondering if I had to build it up and face it off. Also added my location. Thanks again Edited January 2 by Mod30 Remove excessive quote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 The thrust washer looks okay, maybe smooth the face with some fine sandpaper to smooth up the action You could cut a copper washer to place between the thrust washer and seat. The trouble with learning the history of any given leg vise is just how many thousands were cranked out and many components were interchangeable. Simply because many of the makers used the same plans or close enough to be interchangeable. It LOOKS kind of Columbian from here but that's a maybe possible. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ride Posted January 2 Author Share Posted January 2 3 hours ago, Frosty said: The thrust washer looks okay, maybe smooth the face with some fine sandpaper to smooth up the action You could cut a copper washer to place between the thrust washer and seat. The trouble with learning the history of any given leg vise is just how many thousands were cranked out and many components were interchangeable. Simply because many of the makers used the same plans or close enough to be interchangeable. It LOOKS kind of Columbian from here but that's a maybe possible. Frosty The Lucky. Thank you. I'll just clean it up a bit then. I like the copper washer idea. I think that's the path I will take. Regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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