MOD: Weld or mill a ½ square socket driver female at the screw head. 1 so you can open and close the vice dismounting the sliding lever with an out of the way removable standard ½ ratchet or a ½ drive sliding T handle or breaker bar. 2 so you can use straight power tools as impact wrenches to open and close if you have multiple and heavy clamping to do. basically transforming the vice into a press either.
Good job. When heat treating high carbon steel, it is usually best to heat the metal till a magnet wont stick to it, then quench in canola oil (heat treating is very complex but for a diy/home job this method works pretty well). Straight after quenching, temper for 2 x 1hrs cooling inbetween at 300-400 celcius higher the temperature the more flexibility it will have. Don't drop or hit or flex before tempering. Hope this helps someone
It would've helped me a lot if I knew before giving it a go 😉 I learned the hard way haha. Thanks for the elaborate explanation and for watching my video and taking the time to write this positive comment. I highly appreciate it 👍
Im confused. Its a spring? A spring does what a spring does. So why the need to heat treat / temper it. Its a spring. Just use it as is. Cut it to size and just use it without all the palaver. Or am i missing something?
Thanks for your comment. I'm not a material scientist whatsoever, but I did notice that it shattered if I didn't temper it as you can see in the first attempt to heat treat it. Since I had to heat it to bend the ends of the spring, the metallurgical properties of the metal were changed. This brittleness will also occur after heating and bending the edges so I it has to be tempered to become springy, not shattery, again. Heating/quenching was probably not necessary, but tempering definitely was.
MOD:
Weld or mill a ½ square socket driver female at the screw head.
1 so you can open and close the vice dismounting the sliding lever with an out of the way removable standard ½ ratchet or a ½ drive sliding T handle or breaker bar.
2 so you can use straight power tools as impact wrenches to open and close if you have multiple and heavy clamping to do. basically transforming the vice into a press either.
That's a great suggestion, thank you!
Greetings from Whidbey Island, Washington State, USA. Well done, sir.
Greetings back from The Netherlands! I'm glad you liked the video 🙂 thanks for letting me know! Cheers
Way to go Tony!!
Thanks Keith - sorry for the late reply... Merry Christmas!
Good job. When heat treating high carbon steel, it is usually best to heat the metal till a magnet wont stick to it, then quench in canola oil (heat treating is very complex but for a diy/home job this method works pretty well). Straight after quenching, temper for 2 x 1hrs cooling inbetween at 300-400 celcius higher the temperature the more flexibility it will have. Don't drop or hit or flex before tempering. Hope this helps someone
It would've helped me a lot if I knew before giving it a go 😉 I learned the hard way haha. Thanks for the elaborate explanation and for watching my video and taking the time to write this positive comment. I highly appreciate it 👍
Great fix you did! 😊
Thank you David!
@@TonyNeedsHobbies No problem at all, my friend! Happy holidays to you and your family. 😊
And to you and yours too! Merry Christmas!
@@TonyNeedsHobbies Thank you! 😁
Heel duurzaam!
Ja hè?! Leuk dat je weer gekeken hebt!
Im confused. Its a spring? A spring does what a spring does. So why the need to heat treat / temper it. Its a spring. Just use it as is. Cut it to size and just use it without all the palaver. Or am i missing something?
Thanks for your comment. I'm not a material scientist whatsoever, but I did notice that it shattered if I didn't temper it as you can see in the first attempt to heat treat it. Since I had to heat it to bend the ends of the spring, the metallurgical properties of the metal were changed. This brittleness will also occur after heating and bending the edges so I it has to be tempered to become springy, not shattery, again. Heating/quenching was probably not necessary, but tempering definitely was.