We live in a ‘throw-away’ society, so great to see you taking the time to restore this old vice. Blacksmiths can always use an extra vice. The purple reminds me of my purple Wild Cat Mustang bike I had as a kid. Good work!
What I like about this is that it's a practical restoration to make a working tool rather than the perfect restorations of many RUclips channels which make things that look very "pretty" (if a vice could ever be pretty) but you wouldn't really want to use for fear of damaging the restoration.
I have been waiting patiently for a vise to turn up in the scrap metal pile at the local dump and this weekend a 5 inch cheapy was there so I went ahead and did exactly everything you did minus the paint. Really hope to find a beauty like yours someday. You've done a fine job and oddly enough I do like the paint color. It is the color I painted some exterior doors, on the inside face, at my house. Go figure. Cheers!!
Try writing 'Vice Wanted' on a bit of card, along with your contact details, and get the scrapman to pin it on the office wall .... It also helps if you write your number on a £5 note and pass that over at the same time ;
Very good job restoring this great old vise. Importantly, the jaws align nicely. For saving such a nice old tool, I think you're allowed to paint it any color you wish. A little care and it will be good for 100 years. Respect from the USA.
I don’t know what it is about these restoration videos that really rocks my world but this was a great one, Compliments on the sound and camera work on top of the magic you worked on that vise.. P.S. thanks for speeding up the hand painting of the lettering I was starting to sweat. Subscribed
I'm about to restore an old Record No.2 and was worried about picking a custom colour instead of the standard blue until I saw your restoration. Great to see these old tools being restored. Well done
I came looking for this one because I bought two old work benches for $50 a couple of years back mainly because someone had overbuilt them, they were sturdy and I made my money back just in lumber cost. However, there was/is an old vise mounted to one end that I'm eyeing trying to restore. Your video is a wealth of information and I really like what you did. I kept waiting for you to break out the sand blaster and was really encouraged when you made do without one. The purple color is a daring choice and I actually like the way it set off the gold lettering. I think I'll probably go with some variety of Daytona Yellow in honor of my favorite car of all time and just simple black lettering. Thanks again and all the best.
This was excellent to watch, when you first slapped the purple on I didn’t know if I should cry, scream or throw up, but after a few minutes and a punnet of blueberries, I loved it. Cheers 👍
Thanks for the effort. I have been watching you forge metal for 2 years now and consider you to provide the best content out there for my style. Keep them coming, any and all. I hope you get to restoring a well used hand crank blower before I do as it is definite that your product and video production will be top shelf.
Nice job you did. Last year I did a similar restoration of a little Paramo nr. 1. My next one is a nr. 4. Very nice work do do in your free time. What is exactly the spray cleaner you use? Is it just a degreaser or a more acid product?
I'm with worldtraveler on the color, but you did a fine job on the restoration. I'm getting an old vise in a couple weeks, so it was good to see your video. Thanks for your time Nathan.
An observation... I see that all of the jaw ledge is missing from the dynamic jaw and both ends of the ledge on the static jaw are broken off. Those ledges help hold the removable jaws in place when there is downward pressure on the removable jaws. Those jaws would rely fully on the strength of the screws holding them in place under vertical pressure. That's probably why the jaw screws were broken off. To do the restoration more completely you would have to have devised a way to replace those ledges on both jaws. This is probably the reason the vise was tossed in the first place. I was hoping to see how you were creatively going to fix that problem. Oh well. Maybe next time when you work on it (to change the colour). 😉
that vice has taken some real abuse to have broken both jaws like that. Would take some very inventive work to fix that issue, as it is it's ok to hold stuff
The only way I'd think you could "Fix" that without further weakening the area would be to lightly clean up the area, then braze in some steel bar that's been filed to follow the contours of the break. If he just wanted to add some vertical support back to the Jaws the easiest way would be to drill a couple of 8mm holes in the vice behind the removable Jaws, use paint to transfer the hole locations to the Jaws, drill the back of the Jaws part way through, then refit the Jaws with some stubby 8mm steel dowels.
@@tedmattingly7564 Possibly, but only if he has (or has access to) a milling machine. The cost of paying a professional machine shop to do it would be more than the finished vice would be worth. To recreate the ledges fully would mean having to machine both sides back quite a bit to get past the big areas of break out below the Jaws, so it would also need the original bolt holes welding up, new ones drilling, and thicker one off bolt on plates making to take up the space (So the Jaws still came fully together before the lead screw bottomed out on the nut). This is why I first suggested adding metal rather than removing it. Pinning the Jaws would also take vertical load off the bolts, but still wouldn't be as strong as re-adding the ledge (But it would be a lot easier to do).
That is actually in great condition comparing to mine I scored in 2011 after the floods. Mine had a bent base. Jaws we're not lining up and loose. I lined up the jaws ( everything) welded the base. Now I take it to my big brother and borrow his ridiculous overkill press to straighten the side flanges. My little shop press won't do it. Lol works on wheel bearings but this old girl? The steel? Damn strong. Throwaway society. She's a beauty.nice job. Cheers from Australia 🙂👍👍👍
Well done! I think British Racing green would have been sweet! But it is fun to watch. I just dropped a vise off to have the cast base repaired, after which I might spend some time making it look right. Its in good shape, but the base cracked at some point - it is an old vise with two coats of paint & 3" jaws from a telephone office, rescued it from a dumpster! Maybe I will try the BRG for color.
When u are opening it you spin the handle and threaded rod comes out but Jaws don't open right away. Is this just dirt n goo? Or that pin? watching n asking
Watched this video because my dad gave me a vice that my grandfather had under the workbench. My dad had plans to scrap it because it was rusted solid I refused. He gave the vice to me and u got to work. After some pb blaster and a hammer I got it free but it wouldn't spin out on its own. I made a new dowl pin and painted it up. Now it's sitting on the workbench waiting for its first job in probably many years
Seems to be a lot of criticism about the color you chose. They don't realize that the color purple is the color of a King. Beautiful job and I like the color. I just got hold of a Number 6 Record but it's in way better condition than what you started with. I will be cleaning it up and painting it. Your vide was a must see for me, thanks.
My Vice is in about the same condition yours was when you started. A bit of grease and it would have been right for another 50 years. But hey, I like the purple it gives it some groove!
15:50 BUTTERmeVICE. Loved this man, watched this just before bed, was hypnotic. Satisfying seeing a overlooked standard workshop tool (my old man has about 3 of these in his back garden in the same state) given this amount of care - ready for another 50 years use. Nice one. PS. The purple’s grown on me.
Just wd40 but a lot of it. Have you removed the pin on the bottom that the screw goes into? I didn't realise that was a thing and couldn't get it free until I loosened that.
We live in a ‘throw-away’ society, so great to see you taking the time to restore this old vice. Blacksmiths can always use an extra vice. The purple reminds me of my purple Wild Cat Mustang bike I had as a kid. Good work!
I love that purple! ❤
I love that you saved that beauty from the recycler! I was embarrassed for it when the lavender paint came out. LOL
Yes please ! Old beat up discarded tools coming back to life is a joy to watch.
Quite therapeutic I think hoping to do a lot more in the future. Have some great tools that need restoration here.
agreed. It is still good steel, just needs some attention!
Everything was cool until the purple😞
Perfect color for the wife or child.
Record blue dumb ass
... and painting with drips.
In addition, painting over rust is a mortal sin.
@@w.d.m-1899 Yep. Roundel blue, like the original Sheffield made vices.
@@w.d.m-1899 yeah my men.... dark blue!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love the purple.
The old vise came back to life due to your efforts but you killed it again with the purple colour !
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Great job mate 😄. I like the purple, you do you.
I like the color! It came out great.
Great choice of colour. It's nice to see something different.
What I like about this is that it's a practical restoration to make a working tool rather than the perfect restorations of many RUclips channels which make things that look very "pretty" (if a vice could ever be pretty) but you wouldn't really want to use for fear of damaging the restoration.
Exactly Matt, it works now, that's all that matters to me. Glad you enjoyed it 👍
@@workingwithiron very nice restoration, just the color which is not terrible!
I have been waiting patiently for a vise to turn up in the scrap metal pile at the local dump and this weekend a 5 inch cheapy was there so I went ahead and did exactly everything you did minus the paint. Really hope to find a beauty like yours someday. You've done a fine job and oddly enough I do like the paint color. It is the color I painted some exterior doors, on the inside face, at my house. Go figure. Cheers!!
Try writing 'Vice Wanted' on a bit of card, along with your contact details, and get the scrapman to pin it on the office wall .... It also helps if you write your number on a £5 note and pass that over at the same time ;
I can't believe the handle was straight when you found it.
thank you so much had a old vice would hardly move now have a great working vice cheers
Very good job restoring this great old vise. Importantly, the jaws align nicely. For saving such a nice old tool, I think you're allowed to paint it any color you wish. A little care and it will be good for 100 years. Respect from the USA.
A labor of love. I love old tools and especially bringing them back to their former glory the best I can.
Thanks for sharing!
Nice idea to compress spring
First restoration I ever saw where someone used anti-seize on the jaw screws. Kudos. Bold colour choice as well.
I use Copaslip on everything - long after I'm dead and gone, someone will thank me. ;
I don’t know what it is about these restoration videos that really rocks my world but this was a great one,
Compliments on the sound and camera work on top of the magic you worked on that vise.. P.S. thanks for speeding up the hand painting of the lettering I was starting to sweat. Subscribed
I'm about to restore an old Record No.2 and was worried about picking a custom colour instead of the standard blue until I saw your restoration. Great to see these old tools being restored. Well done
I came looking for this one because I bought two old work benches for $50 a couple of years back mainly because someone had overbuilt them, they were sturdy and I made my money back just in lumber cost.
However, there was/is an old vise mounted to one end that I'm eyeing trying to restore. Your video is a wealth of information and I really like what you did. I kept waiting for you to break out the sand blaster and was really encouraged when you made do without one.
The purple color is a daring choice and I actually like the way it set off the gold lettering.
I think I'll probably go with some variety of Daytona Yellow in honor of my favorite car of all time and just simple black lettering.
Thanks again and all the best.
This was excellent to watch, when you first slapped the purple on I didn’t know if I should cry, scream or throw up, but after a few minutes and a punnet of blueberries, I loved it. Cheers 👍
Good job, very nice work. And yes I like the purple and the gold letters.
Behold the purple vise!!
Im waiting for ordinary paint - black/gray, but WOW!!! This purple! So beautiful and crazy! Nice job!!!
Nice job, nice content and my daughter wholeheartedly approves of the colour. 👍😊
Great job, I hope I can get anywhere near that with one I have rescued
The colour absolutely makes it perfect, brilliant idea. I was wondering what colour to paint my refurb', now I know! Thank you...........
Very nice to see the old girl brought back to its former glory. Purple's my favorite color but I still would like it a touch darker. Nice work.
What a great job well done
Thanks for the effort. I have been watching you forge metal for 2 years now and consider you to provide the best content out there for my style. Keep them coming, any and all. I hope you get to restoring a well used hand crank blower before I do as it is definite that your product and video production will be top shelf.
Thanks for saving another Record. They are good.
Nothing better than being able to recognize your tools from a mile away and I mean that!
Nice old vise, but why did you paint it purple? Oh I get it! No one will want to steal it that way.
That's a great point. It was left over paint so used what was left.
@@workingwithiron Was it leftover paint from painting your kids bikes?
@@howardlovecraft750 it wasn't. it was leftover from a Kitchen garden fence that was painted this same colour.
@@workingwithiron Just messing with you man. It looked good.
@@workingwithiron
shame, work baclée for me! And you didn't have anything like color? it pains me for this poor vice !!
Looks awsome with the color purple great job.
Hopefully you have a blast cabinet by now.
The vice formerly known as Prince.
Very good restoration job.
the record colour was royal blue - in the UK you can use Hammerite - int he US Rustolem have matching colours
The record blue was BS110 Roundel blue 👍
Record vices are very well made... Definitely worth "saving", if one could say purple was saving, lol
Hard work! Thank god you didn’t paint it a boring black, red, blue or green like everyone else would have. Badass.
Thank you. I have the same vise, and I was wondering how to get the screw out. Now I can finish it,.
Awesome project. It's always nice to see something that was in the scrap yard get life breathed back into it. But......why purple?
Nice job you did.
Last year I did a similar restoration of a little Paramo nr. 1. My next one is a nr. 4. Very nice work do do in your free time.
What is exactly the spray cleaner you use? Is it just a degreaser or a more acid product?
You must live in a high crime area, or that paint was free. I'm still questioning your use of that color even for free.
It must be the ugliest vise in the world, lol
hahahahaaaaaaaa
There is a purple bandsaw with polka dots on it some woman did. Very nasty looking.
It takes a real man to work with a purple vise. Fuck it Nathan, you a boss.
The only colour a vice should be is natural & battered ,because it’s getting used as a tool not an ornament .
I'm with worldtraveler on the color, but you did a fine job on the restoration. I'm getting an old vise in a couple weeks, so it was good to see your video. Thanks for your time Nathan.
I kinda like the purple color! It makes it unique.
Plenty of years left in it now great job
Cool restoration 👍
An observation... I see that all of the jaw ledge is missing from the dynamic jaw and both ends of the ledge on the static jaw are broken off.
Those ledges help hold the removable jaws in place when there is downward pressure on the removable jaws. Those jaws would rely fully on the strength of the screws holding them in place under vertical pressure.
That's probably why the jaw screws were broken off.
To do the restoration more completely you would have to have devised a way to replace those ledges on both jaws. This is probably the reason the vise was tossed in the first place. I was hoping to see how you were creatively going to fix that problem. Oh well. Maybe next time when you work on it (to change the colour). 😉
that vice has taken some real abuse to have broken both jaws like that. Would take some very inventive work to fix that issue, as it is it's ok to hold stuff
The only way I'd think you could "Fix" that without further weakening the area would be to lightly clean up the area, then braze in some steel bar that's been filed to follow the contours of the break.
If he just wanted to add some vertical support back to the Jaws the easiest way would be to drill a couple of 8mm holes in the vice behind the removable Jaws, use paint to transfer the hole locations to the Jaws, drill the back of the Jaws part way through, then refit the Jaws with some stubby 8mm steel dowels.
It wouldn't take anything to mill those ledges back and to "fit" those jaws correctly
@@tedmattingly7564 Possibly, but only if he has (or has access to) a milling machine. The cost of paying a professional machine shop to do it would be more than the finished vice would be worth.
To recreate the ledges fully would mean having to machine both sides back quite a bit to get past the big areas of break out below the Jaws, so it would also need the original bolt holes welding up, new ones drilling, and thicker one off bolt on plates making to take up the space (So the Jaws still came fully together before the lead screw bottomed out on the nut).
This is why I first suggested adding metal rather than removing it. Pinning the Jaws would also take vertical load off the bolts, but still wouldn't be as strong as re-adding the ledge (But it would be a lot easier to do).
@@Reman1975 brand new starter kit6
Bold color choice and I like it! It's unusual and that makes it cool! Great job!
लेथ मशीन के दाम कितना है
Purple? OK whatever, You go girl!
Now it it looks like Papa Smurf vise!!! The Smurfs are taking over the world!!! Bad ass Smurf!!!
That is actually in great condition comparing to mine I scored in 2011 after the floods. Mine had a bent base. Jaws we're not lining up and loose. I lined up the jaws ( everything) welded the base. Now I take it to my big brother and borrow his ridiculous overkill press to straighten the side flanges. My little shop press won't do it. Lol works on wheel bearings but this old girl? The steel? Damn strong. Throwaway society. She's a beauty.nice job. Cheers from Australia 🙂👍👍👍
Gucci'd that vice. Beautiful but it looks so good I would be afraid to use it.
Nice work sir! What type of paint did you use?
Wow great transformation!
Great job!
Well done!!
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Copper anti-seize, left-over purple, some nail polish from the wife :P I like your ingenuity, keep it up ;)
I was a little unsure about the colour, but now I really like it.
Well done! I think British Racing green would have been sweet! But it is fun to watch. I just dropped a vise off to have the cast base repaired, after which I might spend some time making it look right. Its in good shape, but the base cracked at some point - it is an old vise with two coats of paint & 3" jaws from a telephone office, rescued it from a dumpster! Maybe I will try the BRG for color.
Very nice job
Nice Job Nathan, i think the resto vids would compliment this channel nicely
BEST PART OF RESTORATION - *"IT'S A GREAT WORKING VICE" ... "NICE SAVE!"*
When u are opening it you spin the handle and threaded rod comes out but Jaws don't open right away. Is this just dirt n goo? Or that pin? watching n asking
Just got a number 1 vise from my father-in-law and need a new compression spring and pin, any idea where I can get one? Great video looks amazing
I don't know unfortunately, I was lucky enough to have a working one in this.
@@workingwithiron no worries I'm sure I can find something somewhere 👍
Nice save from the scrap heap!
Great for working on your purple Dodge Charger!
Where can i get a spring like that? Mine got destroyed
What was the white you painted first? Just a primer.?
I did one in straight hamerite no primer and wasnt happy with it
It was a primer, just leftover paint from a previous job. Hammerite is definitely not the best paint without a primer. Unless you thin it down a bit.
@@workingwithiron cheers
You guys do great, let's create together, see you next time
Amazing
How did you compress the spring.
Watched this video because my dad gave me a vice that my grandfather had under the workbench. My dad had plans to scrap it because it was rusted solid I refused. He gave the vice to me and u got to work. After some pb blaster and a hammer I got it free but it wouldn't spin out on its own. I made a new dowl pin and painted it up. Now it's sitting on the workbench waiting for its first job in probably many years
Love that! They are worth saving for sure I wish a lot more people had that attitude to fix things. I hope it brings you many years of joy 👍😃
@@workingwithiron Thanks to your quality video I was shown how to take it apart and figure out what was wrong thanks
Wow! that definitely looks a bit better, I though I was been bold going for bright red on my oil bench vice makeover haha. That looks great 👍👍
Nice find, good restore mate.
Lol the colour is like 🍬 and lots more
Nice job.
Nice job. End customer is Ru Paul?
Ha well done I like the choice of color
Nice find, not hating on the "Purple Color". way to be different in restoration.
Seems to be a lot of criticism about the color you chose. They don't realize that the color purple is the color of a King. Beautiful job and I like the color. I just got hold of a Number 6 Record but it's in way better condition than what you started with. I will be cleaning it up and painting it. Your vide was a must see for me, thanks.
yeh they love the colour 🤣 im gonna cover the next one in glitter i think.
Nice color 👍
My Vice is in about the same condition yours was when you started. A bit of grease and it would have been right for another 50 years. But hey, I like the purple it gives it some groove!
15:50 BUTTERmeVICE. Loved this man, watched this just before bed, was hypnotic. Satisfying seeing a overlooked standard workshop tool (my old man has about 3 of these in his back garden in the same state) given this amount of care - ready for another 50 years use. Nice one.
PS. The purple’s grown on me.
Amigo muy buena restauración.tengo una igual made in Ingland very very good😁😷
Excellent paint job!!!!!
Thanks Nigel 👍
I still saw some rust and pits in the vise. What's up with that?
Hi, what did you use as a release agent I've used WD40 with no luck on a No. 5.
Just wd40 but a lot of it. Have you removed the pin on the bottom that the screw goes into? I didn't realise that was a thing and couldn't get it free until I loosened that.
Agree to disagree on the paint job, and painting over the oil hole, but otherwise great job saving this beauty from the scrap heap.
I was so excited to see the final product. Damn............
Parabéns amigo 👏🏻
congratulations my friend
Everyone hates the purple i think it turned out pretty clean
Thats a handsome vise however, the color purple makes it look like a toy rather than a tool.
Nice drill
Great video, but purple?
Great video. I’ve never seen so many people pissed off about the color purple 😂 nice work.
I painted one shocking pink for my son, just to embarrass him, He returned the favour by painting my wheelbarrow .... from the same tin ;
@@bigoldgrizzly 😂😂
The Barney vice!