SNS 255: Reed 108 Vise Restoration

[Music] hey guys welcome back to the shop for another week of Saturday night special so today in this episode we're gonna go ahead and finish out our work that we've been doing on the read 108 vise I get to the bodywork and the paint and then the the intricate painting that I do on the on the logo and by the end of the episode we'll have a completed project there and you get you guys will get to see how that turned out that was a good project it was an excellent beautiful vise to restore and/or recondition should I say but I really enjoyed that project and I've got more of those in store maybe not full on build videos but I've got more vices like that that I plan on restoring in the near future and getting them back in a good clean working condition so hopefully you guys enjoy that and get to see the vise done I also wanted to give you guys a little update on some other work that's been going on around here I do have quite a bit of job shop stuff that I've been keeping busy with too I've got a few small projects that I've been doing for around the shop and just kind of compiling a bunch of content there to share on the channel so we got some job shop stuff right here that I've been working on I've already repaired an exhaust manifold I've got a some broken bolt content you know broken bolt extraction content to share and I've got some spray welding content coming up in the near future as well we've got two separate jobs in here that we'll get to set up our spray oil equipment and do some do some repair on some shafts so look forward to get into that pretty soon so I got the content it's going to keep coming at you this past week I just released the how-to on how to read a micrometer as I said in that video I want to keep trying to make some small short how-to videos to try to help the younger guys or the people that's just out there learning the trade I got a lot of people that's asking me to keep making those videos they're very basic elementary tight training videos and I enjoy shared you know that kind of stuff so I'm gonna keep working on those no in between the other content as well alright I wanted to give a thanks to my friend Eric up at hand tool rescue he sent me one of his many pocket wrenches right here and I believe you can go over here to his side of his website and order you one of these if you'd like one but Eric Thank You meryt thank you very much for the the pocket rinse this is pretty cool and I believe it or not I've actually already put this to use twice on some little projects around here so it is a neat little wrench and thank you very much for us and in this to me I really appreciate it I did want to mention that I've got one of the Bison super spacers up for sale if anybody out there is perhaps looking for a super spacer I've got my email there in the video you guys can send me an email and you know we can talk about it but I've got one of the Bison super spacers and I also have three curt vices it's the D the D six devices so it's the older model not to 688 so I've got three of those vices that I would like to sell and then the the Bison super spacers I've actually got two of the Bison super spacers one of them is in great shape and then one of them is locked up and I haven't spent any time on that thing yet to you know get it apart and see if anything's wrong with it but I do have that stuff for self anybody happens to be looking for one of those all right so one more quick mention before we get to our Vice work I recently took a road trip up to Savannah and got to hang out with Keith Rucker Mike Wiggins and Lance Baldy and we went and toured the Roundhouse Museum or it's the Georgia State Railroad Museum there and we got in touch with one of the men that that works at the Museum and he was able to take us and and let us get into the shop areas with the blacksmithing shop the machine shop and repair areas and they also have a warehouse there but they have a lot of machinery that's just being stored a lot of machinery that's been donated to the museum over the period of I don't know how many years and it was really cool to be able to get back there and get to see all this old machinery and I took video of it so I've got videos coming of that and while we were in Savannah we were able to go to another machine shop it was a separate machine shop there in Savannah and it's a shop that's been in business I believe for about a hundred and thirteen years now and we got to go in and meet the owner and talk to him and he allowed me to take some video of his shop while I was there so I got some video that and it's an interesting place got a lot of history to it a lot of very old machines and it's kind of like walking back in time and just imagining all the work that went into that place so I got some of that content that's gonna be coming to the channel real soon too so these are the small components of the vise there we got the split nut I've already got wire dry brush this washer goes on there and got the pen goes behind the main nut and then of course the set screws so I'm gonna I'm gonna OspA blue.the these pieces right here I'm just using this stuff right here Brownells Oxbow blue by the way you can pick this stuff up on Amazon it's the easy place to get evidence around sixteen or seventeen dollars on there so it's kind of pricey but it works really good for this tool restorations I just use a little cotton ball right here soak it up just rub it on good and it just kind of momentarily turns it a black black shade I think this is this stuff's really good for parts like this that you want to color it a little bit you don't want to paint them and this will do a good job giving them a nice uniform color with a slight amount of corrosion inhibitor to it you know a little bit of resistance to the moisture they'll keep it oiled up too we'll go ahead and hit this one since we got it wet there all right so once you got him wet it down just take a clean rag and just go ahead and dry them and wipe them off good I'll probably use the airgun on these to kind of blow dry them a little bit but just wipe off the excess there they are polluted and then drive so I'm gonna give them a coat down with my starett in one Laurel you need to oil them after that it really makes them look good too I'll just let them sit here for a day and just kind of dry out but it'll they'll leave a nice protective oily film on the on the surface there and then this part right here once in the vise it actually stays there's all there's oiling hole in the side the vise so that this thing stays kind of lubricated up inside here with us five sandal terms stuff is like a milky white substance it's got a couple different acids in it that converts rust to black rust it creates it so that it gives it like a primer surface that you can paint on top of this nut right here I'm gonna do the same thing mainly just to kind of protect it it's really not a lot of rust left on it because I've cleaned it off but it'll turn it black so it'll look nice that's that's the other thing I like about it is it turns black so it kind of looks like it's painted black and to protect it from rust for a long time I'm gonna go ahead and mix up the Loctite metal filler so again we're using the 3471 steel putty so it should be a ratio of two and a half to one the filler and the hardener and the way they do this stuff is that you buy it in like this is the 1 pound kit and they have other kits with the different sizing is need I'm just gonna mix up a little at a time this is the hardener right there if you wanted to use all this at one time they said just mix all all this together but we're not gonna we're not going to do that so I'm not gonna make it perfect I'm just gonna kind of gauge about how much I want wow that stuff is pretty pretty hard there I guess we'll have to use the paddle that came with it so this has a 30-minute working time and in a six hour cure time all right I think that's mixed pretty good it also came with this a little paddle there in the kit so you know you got different shapes and contours you can use so let's go try it out let's get it on the vise definitely not a body man so I don't have a whole lot of experience with this kind of stuff you know to get the proper feel for everything so just kind of doing it as we as we go here just trying to thin it out all I want to do is just fill some of those little low spots I'm not trying to build the whole surface stuff I'm going to come back over this and and kind of sand this area down there's a bunch of it right down here that we need to do so the Loctite secured for 24 hours now it should be good and hard I'm gonna go ahead and start dressing it in just going to use the abrasive disc right there some of these Osborne wheels we're gonna try that see if I can smooth it out there's my attempt at some body work there I just tried to grind down all the excess filler there and just try to leave it in a little low spots so it's it's going to look a lot better than it did all those little tiny holes and gouges that were all in it from the arcing are filled in now I went over it with the sanding block right there just to kind of felt even it out and smooth it out a little bit it seems to work pretty good yeah I like it [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] you you so anybody that knows me well knows I'm not really into painting it's not my favorite thing to do but you know this is something that I definitely wanted to try to do to make it look nicer and this little technique where I was just doing this right here Dobbin it that's something that I picked up from Jack English machines on Instagram I saw him do that on some of his on his restoration posts and I thought it worked pretty good I thought I would try it it actually does work pretty good I just took a one of these shop towels and folded it up taped it up just like he showed and just dab it in a little bit of paint and just very very lightly tap it on there so I need to do another coat I'm just letting that dry but I've been wanting I've been trying to determine how undo this logo so I think I'm gonna go with my original idea which is down inside there where it's recessed I'd like to go with a gloss black I got this gloss black right there and I bought this little pack of paintbrushes old cheap paintbrushes but I think I'm going to go ahead and give it a shot paint this black down inside there and then I want to do the raised letters in white just like the these other raised letters there so that's why I'm gonna attempt if it ends up not looking good then I'm just gonna wipe it off or just repaint over it you know but I want to give this shot [Music] [Music] I'm gonna give this foam brush a trot for the raised letters I probably should have just went ahead and painted it white to start with and when I started this I wasn't sure which would be the correct technique to start to do first but I was going to try this to see if possibly we can just rub the raised section but I don't know how it's going to do it's not smearing pretty evenly there looks like paintbrush might be have to might be the way I have to do it it's not it's not looking good I might have to wet it down and I just dipped it once it's just not putting it down very evenly that's the only thing I'm not liking about it it's kind of easy to get to the edge but just doesn't look even I'll go back to my fine paintbrush and see if it makes a difference on how I can square in these lines the foam brush doesn't seem to be doing what I want it to do I feel like I can get a better line with this here actually yeah I think the paintbrush is gonna work better just just my experience here so far a little I've done but if I had to do it over again I think I would go ahead and just paint this whole thing white and then highlight the blacks underneath there but live and learn right the only way that you're gonna do it is to get some experience and then learn from your mistakes so I'm not a painter there's our first coat done for the first side not too bad I ended up using the brush to finish it out so getting ready to move to this side now and finish that readout and I'll come back later once they dry put a second coat on fill it in it's time to finally get this thing back together I've got my second coat of white on the read and it's dry so I'm ready to ready to get its lid together we got to bolt it down to the welding table here here's the other side it looks good let's get it together there's our nut cleaned up go ahead and just put a little bit of oil in here we're not going to be greasing in this we're going to use machine oil it's the same oil that I use on the shaper I bet you the factory I'd like to see the setup I'm just guessing but I bet today use something like a shaper or some kind of slotting machines maybe a vertical slope shaper to mill that or a machine that dovetail up inside there that's the pen that just keeps the nut in place it's always being pulled that way against the shoulder so this pin just keeps it from trying to back out putting a little bit of oil on the bearing surfaces here is where the dynamic jaw slides through [Music] there's our split nut that's what goes inside there so these are little notches so that you can kind of get in there with a punch or something to twist it out screw it in or screw it out and then all these little notches here is so that you'll have a place for the set screw that goes into the side there to lock you didn't just keep it from spinning so it just goes around like this and hopefully we can get it in here get it the screw in I think that's going to be pretty good right there where it's at there's our original set screw just looking to make sure that I've got an ox lined up in the center of the setscrew there and I do that's it and that's going to be our oil hole or we can shoot a little oil in there to lubricate the screw yeah there we go got started right the first time all right there's our handle I've decided that it's going to stay just like this so that it is removable at any time that I would ever want to remove it I don't see a reason to have to completely keep that thing locked on there or using any kind of Loctite if you really wanted it tight we can just clamp this into another vise somewhere and just really torque down on that thing and it'll be fine but the thing is moving nicely lock down my table a little that's just the table itself moving a little a lot of weight swinging around there beautiful there it is it's moving a lot more freely than it was whenever I first got it there was just a lot of rust and dust buildup on it paint that kind of stuff feels good even that's you know the screw right there where it's pulling into the shoulder it feels nice and smooth even though it wasn't completely true with the with the screw itself it just has a nice smooth feel to it I love it for this bare metal portion of the moving jaw this and the the Southside area the handle and the screw I've actually already sprayed those down with the CRC SP 350 and let it dry and I kind of wiped a little bit so it does have a little bit of film protection air or rust inhibitor already onto the surface but I'm going to continue to keep it clean you know from here on out just from any kind of moisture getting on it just like I do with the rotary welding table there but it should work pretty good but I mean this thing is uh it's ready to go it is ready to use well guys that's going to conclude the reconditioning of this beautiful 8 inch reed vise I had a lot of fun doing it and I'm so excited to finally see this thing cleaned up properly and got some fresh paint on it we got it cleaned up got all the rust off of it and it is ready to use and I'm very excited about it I'm just thrilled with how it turned out I love the colors that we put on there with the gray and the black and the white it just really really looks nice they're so happy with how it turned out so I just love these old tools you know I love these tools more and more every day you know these these old vices and all of the old tools that always show you around the shop right here but I'm really looking forward to being able to have this around here and use it in videos and for future projects and I was so happy that I was able to acquire this for my friend Andrew over there blacksmith tools you know even he'll know you know just offering to sell this particular one to me very happy to have it so just love the way it turned out hopefully you've enjoyed watching me recondition this thing you know get it back to life so that is going to conclude the chapter on this one right here on cleaning this guy up but I will say that I do have some more videos and another project in store for this particular vise and what I would like to do is build a very heavy-duty pedestal for this thing to mount on you know it's not gonna stay on this here and it's not gonna stay on that table there what I would like is have it to where I can use it out here on the floor or outside or wherever I want to so when I was visiting Andrew I looked at one of his pedestals that he's got he's got an original casted pedestal that one of his big 8-inch vices are mounted to and I want to not replicate that but I want to kind of copy the idea behind that pedestal make it very heavy-duty just very heavy so that you know it doesn't move around so it's going to be kind of similar to this rotary Weldon table I'm gonna have a big piece of plate cut for the bottom probably like two inch thick plate steel I'll have four mounting leveling feet on that and I'll have it so that I can put my pallet jack under it pick it up move it wherever I want to and set it down and get it out of the way and in the upper portion we'll have a little bit smaller plate but still very thick and heavy that this vise will be mounted on and just look really looking forward to doing that getting that project I can't get to it very soon but I've got I've got some other jobs I need to get to and that ones on the list I want to get started on it and hopefully in the next couple of months or so maybe I can get started on that project there as well I got to figure out the dimensions of the place that I want and get those ordered I've already got a big tube for the column in the center I've got a big heavy-duty gearbox shaft it's going to go down in the middle of that to add a bunch of weight to it because I want that thing big heavy and solid so that thing doesn't move around when we're using it so that was going to be coming up in the near future and I hope you guys have fun and enjoyed following along the reconditioning of this 8 inch Reed vise and I'm looking forward to doing some more I really like bringing these old tools back to life alright so we will see you guys again on the next video all right [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you

Channel: Abom79

Views: 162,450

Rating: 4.9431834 out of 5

Keywords: abom79, reed, reed vise, reed 108, reed 108 bench vise, bench vise, vise restoration, 8 inch reed vise, 8 inch vise, big vise, machinist vise, vise reconditioning, tool painting, logo painting, machine shop, hand tool rescure

Id: p11NFUjfARY

Length: 40min 20sec (2420 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 23 2019