Can I fix this Broken Vice/Vise Swivel Base - Simple Restoration
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2020
- In this video I will be restoring / fixing a broken vice swivel. I will use this swivel to finally mount a vice to my workbench. This swivel was given to me for free since it was broken. Although I knew it needed a lot of welding (I’m a terrible welder and I despise it) I accepted the swivel knowing it would serve me well if I could successfully repair it. After a lot of stress welding and rewelding parts I finally had something useable. My aim for this restoration was to have a useable tool. I wasn’t looking for a complete overdone restoration. If my welds hold the test of time then I will be happy.
I hope you enjoy the video.
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Fantastic job as always looks and works fine thanks for sharing and remember#stay safe and make. 🍺🍺👍👍😷
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Absolutely beautiful. I bet the guy who gave you the base would be envious now if he could see it. Notwithstanding your dislike for welding, you did a very workmanlike job to save the base. Otherwise, it was just high quality steel scrap. The vise is wonderful for just about any job the home workshop guy would undertake. Great job. As an aside, I was surprised to learn not too long ago that some people prefer the stationary vise, as opposed to the swivel. I grew up with the swivel type, and both of my vises swivel. I'm perfectly happy with them and have never given t he issue any thought. Regards from the USA.
Thank you. I think he would be pleased for me. He also gave me the Stanley grinder for £25 and many more awesome tools.
Nice! Thanks for posting the video!
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I agree. Great restoration. Just found this channel and I am glad I did.
Thank you. Welcome to the channel.
Awesome job amazing restore
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Well done!
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A very nice rebuild
Now that's what i call a vice amazing restoration job 👌
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Great job.
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Nice repair and restoration!! I will try weld on one of my next projects. Thanks for inspiring and for a great video!
Thank you. We all have to start somewhere. Hope it goes well.
You are a brave man, welding on a piece of plywood after useing brakecleaner! But the result looks great.
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Most excellent work my friend!
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Very nicely done..
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Well done, sir.
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Absolutely outstanding job 👍
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Nicely done and a great video, as always! Keep it up, dude! 🤘
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You just need to fix your wobbly bench to the wall now, nice job!!!
The whole workshop is a work in progress. I’ve been redesigning and building over the summer.
I appreciated the fact that you didn't paint the lettering. It's the little extra that makes me switch to subscription with pleasure.
Good job
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I am not as techno as some of the others that commented, so I'll just say, nicely done, sir very nicely done.
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Very nice results,like it 😎👍
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Cool bro , Congrats !
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Nice job! Im a terrible welder too. I don't give up and I hope you don't either. 👍
We gotta start somewhere. I just don’t like practicing when rods are £2 each.
Hmm adapter / shim plate on top of the swivel base would be a good idea. So the vise sits on that.. will look much better, work better.
Also don't mount that one mounting ear of the base to the front, put it to the back.
You vise opens forward, any downward force will directly push on that ear and breake it due to being on the short end of the lever. On the back it experiences upwards forces but the lever is much longer and less force.
Thanks for the tip
Intriguing to watch 🙏❤️
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Outstanding repair and restoration, again! Two things: you saved a ton of money while honing your skills; and, u.v. rays/light is not picked up by the camera (no worries). Best wishes and stay healthy.
Thank you very much.
Great job !! It all looks brand new !! And you were right,....your welding does suck, lol. But thanks to your skill with a grinder, nobody will ever know. Keep up the good work.
Thanks. Practice makes perfect.
Good job 👍👍👍💣👌🏽✌🏻🇷🇺
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Nice job, your welding is much better than mine. Just found the channel and subscribed 👍
Superb, I’ve followed you since you started (was Matt before) and your attention to detail has never faltered. Your “Tiny Workshop” May be “Tiny” but it certainly now looks organised. With all of the equipment you are building up you’ll soon need an extension 😊. You did a fine job of the welding, everyone has something that they’re a little sketchy at, but you made a brilliant job of it (I can’t plaster walls, tried many times and failed on every occasion). Looking forward to see what you’ve got planned next. 👍😊
Thank you very much. Iv spent the summer destroying my workshop and rebuilding most of it and I also had to throw a lot of my stuff away just to make space. Still need more though.
My tiny Workshop - You can never have enough storage or flat work surfaces to put put things on while you’re working on them 😊
Man, that poor thing. I have to assume that the idiot that broke it is also the one that mangled it in an attempt to "fix" it. I have to assume that because I don't want to think that there are TWO people that dumb. Nice job on the resto. This would be what I classify as a "working resto" rather than a "full resto". Not going for looks, just for something that will work and last for a while. Well done indeed. You are actually not nearly the worst welder I've seen (i.e. your welds actually, you know, WORK among other things). :)
When confronted by welding, remember the mantra of the piss-poor welder:
"A grinder and paint will make me the welder I ain't."
Carry on.
Love it.
You wasn't joking about wielding HUH??? LMAO I'm just messing with you Great job restoring it!!! You should have put the oil on them while they were to hot to touch way to hot
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Swordsmen wield. The poster is welding! His welding is better than your spelling!
Oh, also, you'll get more function out of that thing for longer if you make an adaptor plate that goes in between the bottom of the vise and the top of the swivel, one that's the exact diameter of that top ring on the swivel mount. It'll wear more evenly across the top of that, and extend the life considerably. Doesn't have to be huge, maybe a 1/4 inch plate. 1/8 would work in a pinch, but will wear out faster.
I was thinking the same thing when I saw the bottom that vice riding against the top ring of the base. Some sort of adapter plate to take the load of the vice.
When you are really horsing down (putting lots of force downwards) on something clamped in to the vice, it is going to put all sorts of uneven stresses down against that ring. You run a good chance of cracking the outer ring and an adapter plate would spread those forces across the entire mounting ring face.
Thanks for the tip.
Круто! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
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Well done! It looks like new.. Those carriage bolts you're using to mount the vise to your bench will be a problem.
Wonderful restoration, again! (p.s. the extreme light from the welder after time can effect the digital camera f.y.i.)
Thank you for the tip. I had no idea. I usually don’t film welding.
I was a little worried when I saw the porosity in your welds, but you were able to grind out most of it. Can’t even tell, once everything is painted.
Beautiful and accurate work. Is your small workshop in Germany or Switzerland ? Countries with a tradition of precision.
Thank you very much. I’m actually in England.
Great job!
Can I clarify, did you use scrap cast iron or mild steel for the repair bits? I'm curious as to how well a steel/iron weld holds, with basic home shop kit...thanks!
Hi. I used mild steel. A normal welding rod won’t work, you will need nickel rods to weld cast iron.
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Well done! One question though, what did you make the top of the bench with? Im assuming they are repurposed, but from what? Thanks.
Thanks. The whole bench is all repurposed. The top is tongue and groove boards.
Was the restoration of the swivel base originally for the Record 35 Vise or the Record 84 Vise as the video has shown the Record 35 Vise from the start to almost the end. Just curious but other than that good restoration.
It was for neither. The previous owner had an 84-34 mounted to it, but he made the holes himself.
Looks great but why did you use a different vise than the one you started with in the beginning of the video?
Thanks. I left the best vice for last.
Is it my tablet or is this video at like 5 fps?
Edit: only the 1080p stream so probably my tablet
Should be 60fps 4K
Your welding machine sounds like being from the seventies or eighties....could that be?....sounds somehow familiar to me....
It’s from the mid 90s.
For welding cast you need oven, torch is not accurate enough. Bake cast for 10-15 minutes, then weld. This is what the Party teaches.
Good idea. I actually have a workshop oven.
Pitty you didn't do the lettering on the vice
I hate lettering on vices. Done in before and hated it.
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Ich haue sowas, über Nacht, in Rohrreiniger. Das haut Farben, Dreck und auch Rost weg! Dann spar ich mir die ganze Schleiferei und verdeck mir nicht so den Sandstrahler. Vor allem wenn das noch Bleifarben sind!