Making a Post Vice?
I've been looking at post vices lately, and it occurred to me that it might be a project I can make out of fork lift tines (occurred to me while thinking about my fork lift tine with most of one leg...
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Ken, that' s a lot of good news! Congrats on the new little one! Most if not all post vises I've seen are wrought iron, which is hard to fusion weld well. (The slag in the WI apparently causes...
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Congratulations on the expected youngN. Joyous is the man that hath his quiver full.
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Thanks, guys! Didn't know they were wrought, Matt. That make sense, then, about the welding. Ken
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So you ended up getting it? Awesome. And the wagon wheel as well. Also good. Now you know what I'm going to say... "Now all you have to do is finish a knife!!!" Also, if the hub banding is the right...
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This is mostly for new folks but i got a nice post vice from ebay relatively cheap. I fell into a bit of luck because the owner didn't post it as a "Post Vice". The description was just for a "Vice"....
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Great tip, Miteeoak. That is actually how I found this one, just not on ebay. When I do a serious search, I try a bunch of permutations, including alternative and even incorrect spelling... Thanks...
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Those deals on eBay where the seller doesn't quite know what he has are great, when you can find them. I still kick myself over missing the chance to get several pairs of Tom tongs at $10 each.
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I'm sure you don't need that stove in sunny SoCal, Ken. You can just send that hunk of worthless pot metal to me and I'll take care of it for you. Wink Wink :-)
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And those hub bands are the perfect size Bring 'em over the next time! As for the hub itself, I haven't figured out what they're useful for yet. Maybe cutting down one side and opening up to get a...
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Ha ha Patrick. My wife likes camping with me, as long as she's warm... Probably the reason I was able to find a stove at a reasonable price is that the weather is fairly mild out here. Eric, that...
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Well "using" is a matter of opinion eh?... Just giving you a hard time! If you can get more hub bands, they're well worth buying, just in terms of the convenience of not having to work thick wheel...
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I "used" the brake pliers to get a 2# or 3# chunk of metal in and out of my forge, when I was annealing my home made hardy ("fool hardy"?) tool... The 1084 is 1/4". I was going to get some 1/8" when I...
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Heh, you can have some 1/8" for san-mai at the rate you're going through knives... Make an order when you've got more time to actually do a bunch of bladesmithing. Yeah, and it's weird that you don't...
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Eric, you're too generous. I'll trade you pound for pound, if you like. I haven't knocked on any doors yet, but I figure if people put the wagon or wheel in their yard, they want to keep it......
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better late than never. Here's a photo of the screw from a big house jack. I stuck my foot down for comparison purposes.
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Yikes! I hate to think about drilling a hole big enough for that in anything at all... Thanks for posting the photo! I've never seen one of those. Ken
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Just got a big antique wrench for $20, from an ad on Craigslist. It's more than twice the size of a couple I missed chances on. Should make a great twisting wrench, once I weld or braze on a bar...
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G'Day all Blacksmiths Journal has 2 drawings of how to make a post vice 1/ Mechanical 2/ Air operated Cheers new to the site John
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