Restoring a Wilton 800S 8-in Bullet Machinist Vise

[Music] hello keith rucker here at vintage machinery.org guys today excited to have a new little toy for the shop i recently picked up this really nice wilton 8-inch bullet vise this is to my knowledge the largest bullet vise that that wilton made i'm a big fan of the wilton bullet vices they've just always been my favorite kind of ice i've got one that i restored many years ago that i use on my bench over here i think it's a four inch version this is the eight inch version eight inch jaws this thing is massive it weighs i think 200 250 pounds somewhere in that ballpark um it is big it is heavy and it is indestructible mostly instructable and the one i picked up here while cosmetically it doesn't look that great mechanically it appears to be in excellent condition this vice it still has a lot of the original paint on it but unfortunately the person i got it from he told me got it at an auction and it had set outside for a while i think it was a military auction and it had set outside in the weather for a little while so we got some rust issues but nothing real bad everything appears to be surface rust when i'm looking at the jaws uh there's hardly any wear in them at all which tells me this this device saw very little use the handle's not bent i don't see any you know major hammer marks where it's been beat on or anything like that so i think it's going to be a really good candidate for doing a restoration on and that's what we're going to be doing today is uh starting out we're going to take this thing apart uh get it cleaned up and do a full blown restoration on it and it will be going on to my welding bench and this will be my forever vice this is the one i have been looking for for a long long time these big eight inch vises are not easy to find and when you do find them they uh demand a pretty premium price uh but i was able to get a good deal on this one and glad to have it in the shop let's uh see if we can start taking it apart i'm gonna kind of slide it down here to the end and we're gonna start by seeing if we can just unscrew and get the uh the main jaw off here main part uh this has just got a screw on the inside that goes up to a nut that's back here in the back and it should just come right out this thing's gonna be heavy though i think what i might do is uh here in just a minute we're gonna get the gantry crane over here to help support this and pick it up because i'm not sure i want to pick that up by myself in fact i think i'll stop right here and we'll get the get a swing on it we'll put part of it in there we'll grab the outside of it over here and just hook this with the hook right now i just want to get enough tension on it that it's supporting it and we'll go ahead and bring this on out i love how big this opening is we can grab some really heavy duty stuff with this vice which is a the reason i've been looking for one that over a little bit more put some tension back on it continue bringing this on out so all right it has quit grabbing there and there we go i'm just going to slide this over here and put it down on the bench go ahead and unscrew this this is a swivel base and uh should just have a couple of bolts here that go down into a little framework underneath the bottom there that one is off that one is off i'm gonna go ahead and pick this up off of the casting there we go and that all appears to be in very good shape sometimes this ring in here will break this is kind of the weak link on these uh vices but uh that one's in good shape which is great i'm gonna set this down so i'm going to pull this little clip there's kind of an e-clip on here that captures this screw in place there's three just phillips head screws use my impact those are not in there very tight at all pull these out there's another one on the bottom down here pull those out this should slide up and the screw comes right out next thing i want to do is take the jaws out these are replaceable these are in good shape but i want to get them out there's just a couple of socket cap screws in here that hold these in place and those are a little bit rusty but they came right coming right out get the second one off the bottom here and that one wants to be a little bit more stubborn all right let me get a different impact all right we're going to go to the big impact gun here and that broke it right loose and we got that one off we get this off of the other the main body as well all right we're going to do the same thing here on the other side get this uh jaw out of here get my in there here we go that one's loose there we go and that one is out as well well guys i got this apart as far as i think i'm going to take it apart now if you really want to get it completely apart there's a casting on the inside of this that has the screw that the or the nut that the screw goes up and into and to take that out there's a couple of pins on either side this whole back end slides out and all that gut comes out at the same time but honestly there's nothing wrong with it and for the cosmetic restoration that i'm doing there's just no reason for me to take it apart so i'm not going to all that on the inside has been kept lubed up and it's in great shape uh i've looked up in there with a flashlight and no significant wear really anywhere so i think we're good to go so game plan now is is i'm gonna have my boy that helps me out out here he's going to come in with a wire wheel and get these things cleaned up get all the old paint and rust off of them and we'll come back and get them repainted and put back together i'll probably take these jaws and soak those in my evapo rust tank rather than wire wheeling those we'll chemically remove those but we do need to get this paint off of here and anyway i will bring you back once we get everything stripped off we won't be showing the the removal of the rust and paint but it's just gonna be grunt work it's just using an angle grinder with the wire wheel uh to get her done and it shouldn't take much at all to get these uh these parts done i also get uh all this over my parts cleaner get all that grease and stuff cleaned up and i think we'll be ready to give this thing a fresh coat of paint and reassemble this is going to be a fairly simple and straightforward restoration it's really just cosmetic is all we're having to do to it nothing major wrong with it at all all right we'll bring you back so my high school boy brock helped me out and he came in here and wire wheeled these for me yesterday and this is the next day i'm back out here and we're i'm just going to wipe these down with some mineral spirits and make sure we get all the dust and everything off of them just clean them up a little bit and then we're going to mask off the areas that need masking and get ready to paint these so let me get these wiped down and we're back in a minute and we'll get them masked up now we're going to start masking off the areas we don't want to have painted and i'm just using blue painters tape here nothing special this will just uh give me a nice mask i'll take a razor blade and trim these edges up i need to get a fresh blade that one there is looking dull all right that's much better we're ready to paint this i'm using a rust-oleum hammered paint this is a verde green is the color it's a real close match to uh the paint that these came with from the factory it really makes a nice finish and we're just going to go ahead and give this thing a good coating here so so go ahead and hit this base while we're at it all right i think we'll let this paint cure a little while i'm going to flip these parts over and uh get some of the areas that i can't hit right now with it after it gets uh dry to the touch but this is coming out nice i'm gonna really like this vise i think so we'll be back we'll be back after we let this paint cure for a little while so this is where my five inch yoast vise has been sitting for some time this has been my go-to vise now for quite a while picked this up and i actually had done a little restoration on it a while back and this has just been my user vice there's absolutely nothing wrong with it it's a great little piece here but time to upgrade this one i think i am going to try to sell but for now we're just going to move it over out of the way i've already unbolted it let's get that wilton sitting right here let's get it put together so i got my base it's all painted this uh this ring will go on the inside we'll have a couple of carriage bolts that come up through this up into the bottom of the vise kind of get these uh positioned roughly where they go all right i'm going to turn this 90 degrees because that's how i'm going to put it up on there this casting i probably ought to get the gantry crane over here but i can pick it up and handle it without the other pieces in it but we'll go ahead and drop that down like such and now what i'm going to do is just kind of slide this over just a little bit where i get my fingers up underneath the bottom here and we'll get our little nuts here pulling that up from the bottom all right i'll turn this 180 degrees and do the same thing over here all right take my tape off here that we masked with and let's get our jaw and get it ready to go in all right there's a little key in the bottom of this piece here and we got to get lined up there we go just go ahead and kind of slide it in there pull that out and i'll turn this a little bit where we can see what's going on but next we got our vise screw here and we go ahead and get it screwed in the jaws are already pushed up so we just got to basically screw this up until we get this little collar here there's a slot that uh this little piece fits over and captures that in and that's what connects the uh the rod here the screw to the actual vice movable jaw so give me a minute to crank this in all right so we're up to that little collar there and there's a little recess that goes into all right now we're engaged and this little piece here fits in place we have some screws that we screw that in place with let me get my screwdriver and we get that tightened up there we go make sure those are all tight and they are and that allows that movable jaw to move in and out so let's go ahead and get these uh jaws in here i've got some brand new socket cap screws we're going to put in here to replace the old ones the old ones were just kind of a little rusty and these just screw in from the back i'm not going to tighten that one up all the way until i get them both on there make sure they both align and they do that one's tight that one's tight same thing on the second jaw here that one started that one started [Applause] and there we go i think she is all together i'm gonna run these up and just make sure those tighten up parallel to one another they should if not we'll have to shim the back of them but no they're perfectly fine and that looks good so now to bolt this bad boy down i've got the four holes here and we're going to use 5 8 inch bolts to go down through my table i'm just going to drill and tap holes directly in here we got a one inch thick plate i need to locate the holes so to do that i'm using a transfer punch i've showed these before these are a set of punches that are in fractional sizes this particular set goes from a half inch up to one inch and you just choose the punch that fits whatever hole that you're going through and this one here happens to be what is that 11 16 and what i'm gonna do is just put that punch in there it's got a center punch built into the end of it and that'll locate that uh center punch hole right in the center of the hole that i need to to match up so we'll just go ahead and pop that right there i'm just going to go ahead and hit all four of them make sure it's not moving around any looks good same thing over here there we go now i'm gonna uh push this monster vice out of the way and i've got four center punches there and i'm just gonna circle them with a sharpie pin so i can find them real easy here now to drill these what i've got is a mag drill and the way this works is this bottom is an electromagnet so i've actually got it on right now this is stuck it's right above that center punch hole that i just did we got a drill on here and it's actually got a little drill press handle on the side so it's basically a little portable drill press that you set up on a piece of metal it attaches itself to whatever you're drilling to and you use this kind of like an in-place drill bit drill press [Music] that's good i got a 17-64 drill bit in here which is uh what you need for 5 8 11. and uh we're going to drill this out and then tap them [Applause] [Music] [Applause] i'm gonna release my magnet we'll um clean these chips out of the way and we'll come down here to our second hole get our drill bit right over that center punch [Music] [Applause] hole [Music] [Applause] huh [Music] there we go [Music] [Applause] hey all right two holes down two to go i'll do these other ones off camera we got our holes drilled next thing i'm gonna do is just come in here and uh just deburr that put a little taper going down into the hole just make that tap a little easier to start and i got a 5 8 inch 11 tap here we'll put some some tapping compound on there make it cut a little bit better and let's uh thread some holes here got our holes drilled and tapped so um go ahead and get some bolts in here get these lined up and get these all tightened down to the bench and i think this vice will be ready to use there we go tighten these up and there we go one heavy duty vice i like it so this five inch vise is big this uh eight inch vise is huge wow they're actually at about the same height they're really exactly the same height but uh got a much larger gripping area there much heavier vise heavier duty vise and uh i really think this is going to come in handy for a lot of jobs around here well there you go a wilton model 800 s bullet vice machinist fights the biggest one they make you can still order these brand spanking new you just better have a pocketbook to pay for them i think this device costs about four grand if you order a new one um i got a good deal on it i still paid up for it uh but i got a good deal on it i feel like and it says this is again my forever vice this is something i've always wanted for the shop i have a need for a big vise occasionally doing a lot of the work that i do and this one should fit the bill and on this big heavy workbench that i got it on i think i am set so i'm really excited to have this in the shop there you go hope you quick enjoyed that little quick uh restoration not a whole lot of mechanical restoration or nothing it was really just clean it up and paint it fortunately this vise was in pretty good shape when i got it other than just being a little bit rusty from being outside but it's going to make a great user glad to have it in the shop guys that will be a 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Length: 27min 0sec (1620 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 19 2021