Wow! When I saw that vise I thought it was way past the point of 'no return' ... but you stuck with it so all credit to you. Great result. Thanks for sharing! Greetings from Southport.
I love this restoration! I am in the process of restoring some of my gramps engineering tools that I was lucky enough to inherit and a nippy vice is one of them. I struggled so hard separating the jaw from the threaded bar, in the end I heated it up until it almost glowed which done the trick, it was a last resort as I was petrified of bending the bar! Mine too has the makers mark on the jaw as well. Great work all the best Ryan
I couldn't quite tell from the thumbnail, once I got a good look at the damage I was sure parts of this were write-offs but man was I wrong! Brilliant job, you went more than the extra mile and truly brought this back from the brink... we say that a lot in restorations but sooo true here!
Very nice work !! Great job filling in all those drill hole's you would never know they were there !! Alot of time and patience paid off good sir !! Looks great love that 🔨 blue paint !! From totally trashed to totally useable !! Very nice work !! 👍👍👍
Looks like either high school kids or apprentices learnt their drilling techniques on it. I guess it got to the point where it was more hole than vice, so they chucked it out. Amazing job, Mate, that was just little more than a lump of scrap metal when you started.
What have you and every other Restoration video person on RUclips have against securing your tools/work to the table to prevent it from moving? Incredibly dangerous! Love the videos, hate the disregard for safety.
Thomas Van Driel I don’t think I’m overly unsafe, quite often I will have a different set up when I’m taking shots compared to when I’m actually carrying out the bulk of the work, clamps etc can get in the way of the shot! It does annoy me when my vice moves around but I haven’t decided where I want it to live yet...
I was going to say whst numpty owned that, school kids would be a good candidate. Shame we don't have corporal punishment in school anymore, but accidentally dropping the vice on a kids foot would serve.
This wasnt a "Restoration" it was a Revival!! That thing was Dead!!!! Lol was the previous owner a Blind and trying to drill a record amount of holes in a vise? Lol Beautiful Job! I cant imagine how many hours you spent filing that weld flat. You out did yourself. I truly didnt think that vise could be saved! But you did it. Brilliant work mate! Cheers.
daviddaddy the main body had 4 rounds of welding grinding and filing 😂! I enjoy this stuff though so didn’t mind how long it took really! Thanks for watching!
Can I just ask, please would you secure your vise to the bench? Watching you file down with a loose vise made me think you’re wasting time because you can’t get a full stroke on the material. Otherwise, great restoration.
Nice job. Someone really abused that thing for an extended period. If you ever get jammed up on screw pitches, length, etc.; you can get some threaded rod and make the caps yourself. Or, simply fill them in with weld and tap them to a more convenient thread pitch for your part of the world. I like how you tried to keep it original. Considering the shape it was in; quite difficult. Nevertheless, very nice restore on a difficult subject matter.
This is a schools' special. There are hundreds of these things still in service in schools - ours were in the same miserable condition after forty years. Curently one (in unmarked condition) for sale on eBay asking £200. Hahahahaha!
_i have several questions about your workflow_ - *why are both the grinder motor* (for polishing and brushing) *and the vice not mounted to the table* - why didnt you make the top surfaces of the small vice (not the sliding surfaces) flat too?
"Cast iron" can refer to different things. In a machine tool, what you're often looking at is cast _ductile_ iron(aka. black iron), not the metal used for old cast iron cookware(aka. grey iron).
Very nicely done sir. Above and beyond the call of duty that one. Its criminal how some people treat their drill press vices. in good condition those Nippy vices are fetching around a hundred quid on ebay. Has Hammerite blue changed colour? I never used to like it but seen a few resto videos now where it looks quite nice.
Midnight Joker thanks man. This colour is hammered blue, has a nice effect. Standard blue is probably closer to the original colour of the vice but I love the hammered effect finishes 👍
@@sparesorrepair9118 Thanks. I've been using Roundel Blue from Paragon paints, which is the record colour. Think I'll do a couple of the hammered blue now though.
BedsitBob if I had the space I’d already have one! My current workshop is tiny, we are thinking about moving house in the next year or so and big workshop is top of my list! Probably won’t have anymore space though as I’ll just fill it with bigger projects 😂
I always thought these vice main body was cast iron? By the way the UK is not metric BSF, BSW, BA, BSF etc are all still available including the American versions
madox76 something tells me that an apprentice was involved, or the night before they watched the film “Driller Killer”. I have a vice like it in the workshop, that anyone can can use, then after purchasing a Bison 4” machine vice that has a quick release lever for the final locking of the product, I will not share it about the workshop after people who shall not be named, started to pepper pot the top , that was soon stopped, Great restoration job on the vice though.👍👍👍👍👍
Read the description for full details, but I couldn’t find exact replacements at the time, I have since ordered the correct length cheese head screws and will be fitting them as soon as they arrive! The screws sticking out wouldn’t affect the use of the item though
Iazarus To be honest I’m not sure about it myself, in my head it looked much better but I think it’s probably a bit too much. I’ll see if it grows on me but I imagine it’ll be getting removed and left blue if not!
To my knowledge Murray Son ltd made Nippy vice's and not Record,i own a Nippy myself and it clearly has Murray Son ltd stamped into the jaws,Murray Son ltd might have made castings for Record at some point but i don't think they were ever bought out by Record like Woden and Parkinson were,also Whitworth thread is the worlds first national standard thread, BSW (British Standard Whitworth) so in the UK we still have a fair bit of Whitworth knocking about on old equiptment, you can still buy it, you just need to know where to get it thats all.
haemhorrhoidian cheers for the info, I did a bit of research before and found a site stating that record distributed the vices and had a lot to do with the company in the later days, just presumed they’d bought them out. This one had Jones and shipman jaws on it, but that vice was a different design casting, I’m thinking this one came from a college or something and they chopped and changed parts from different vices over the years. I have loads of spare BSW fixings laying around but for the life of me I couldn’t find any cheese head screws for sale! If you have a link to where I could get some I’d really appreciate it, would love to put the proper screws in it rather than the UNC cap heads I used
@@sparesorrepair9118 Well thats very interesting,you learn something new every day indeed,i personally have 2 Nippy type vice's,one of them is a real Nippy by Murray Sons and Co,the other is a Jones and Shipman without the Nippy casting so we certainly have a cross over with your vice :-) it wouldn't surprise me at all if Record did buy them both out,it wouldn't have been the first time they followed that practice. Now i did some digging about and there happens to be a ton of sellers on Ebay who stock BSW,there's one particular seller who has 1/4" x 1 1/2" BSW BZP Cheese heads in stock :-) just copy and past the size into Ebay ;-) chips as cheap too,i'll probably stick them in my watch list for spares so's to speak.
@@sparesorrepair9118 np :-) you got me thinking actually,i own a small lathe and thought i could use it to make BSW when it becomes scarce,there's bound to be sizes people need but can't get hold of,i also thought about my soon to be milling machine and refurbing old vices,it would be quite easy to mill out the bed after welding,i'll have to start buying up old Nippy's and get on Ebays selling game!! ;-)
Swiss vise, no? :P
Brilliant
WOW! Never in my life have I seen such an abused tool ! Yet you have made it both functional & pleasing to the eye. Thank you for sharing.
This has to be one of the best restorations in terms of how absolutely destroyed the beginning piece-work was. Wow.
Wow! When I saw that vise I thought it was way past the point of 'no return' ... but you stuck with it so all credit to you. Great result. Thanks for sharing! Greetings from Southport.
I love this restoration!
I am in the process of restoring some of my gramps engineering tools that I was lucky enough to inherit and a nippy vice is one of them.
I struggled so hard separating the jaw from the threaded bar, in the end I heated it up until it almost glowed which done the trick, it was a last resort as I was petrified of bending the bar!
Mine too has the makers mark on the jaw as well.
Great work all the best Ryan
That turned out much better than I thought possible. Great job. 👍👍👍
Excellent restoration. This "throw-away- world we are living in has got to stop. It all started with the BIC pen.
That one has had a hard life. Amazing reconstruction 👍
Yes, man. This is the correct work that depends on mastery, sophistication and focus. Otherwise, it is better to leave it.👏👏🙋♂️
I couldn't quite tell from the thumbnail, once I got a good look at the damage I was sure parts of this were write-offs but man was I wrong! Brilliant job, you went more than the extra mile and truly brought this back from the brink... we say that a lot in restorations but sooo true here!
Very nice work !! Great job filling in all those drill hole's you would never know they were there !! Alot of time and patience paid off good sir !! Looks great love that 🔨 blue paint !! From totally trashed to totally useable !! Very nice work !! 👍👍👍
Looks like either high school kids or apprentices learnt their drilling techniques on it. I guess it got to the point where it was more hole than vice, so they chucked it out. Amazing job, Mate, that was just little more than a lump of scrap metal when you started.
I really enjoyed this restoration I think it is the contrast between the starting state and the final restored condition. Thanks.
Amazing job! Now that was a true restoration. Thank you for saving this tool. It has many more years of useful life thanks to you.
I can dig it. Nothing over the top, just restored to something a commoner would use in his shop. Restored to be used! Can’t wait for the disc sander.
Cheers, thanks for watching 👍
Wow, nice restoration. That thing was basically DOA and you gave it a new life.
Brad Thayer cheers man, I’m happy with the results. Thanks for watching!
Bravo. Seriously, bringing that one back is impressive.
Brilliant restoration. Just the job for your pillar drill. Really looking forward to the next project 🙂
Graham Pickering cheers! These items are all going to come in really useful in an upcoming restoration I have planned!
You did an Amazing job on that piece! Outstanding!
Inspirational. Lovely restoration of a dead vice.
i really like that blue paint, tried to look it up online and wooooweeee that stuff is PRICEY- nice work by the way
What a fantastic job love the colour and thanks for sharing excellent quality work fantastic video Bonney lad thanks again. 🍺🍺🍺👍👍👍
Holy Toledo, what a difference! Nicely done.
Very nice restoration
Tappy tap tap!...From FUBAR to usable tool. Excellent!
If termites ate metal this is what their work would look like. Good save.
What a beautiful restoration!
Nice refurbishment. Gave it a second chance at a good life.
Great job. Need to buy yourself and impact screw extractor. It has saved need tons of drilling😀
Nope, today I won’t mention your bench... 😆👌
I’ll just say it’s cool done, we are waiting for the continuation!👏 Boring without your videos, bro...
Got a couple of sanders to repair/ restore, might give the bench a smoothing out when I get round to them 😂.
Thanks for sticking around!
Wow, I surely applaud your refurbishing effort on this one. I have to say, I would have done it the same way. Thumbs Up for sure huge effort!
Gary Mucher cheers man, I’m happy how it turned out!
What have you and every other Restoration video person on RUclips have against securing your tools/work to the table to prevent it from moving? Incredibly dangerous! Love the videos, hate the disregard for safety.
Thomas Van Driel I don’t think I’m overly unsafe, quite often I will have a different set up when I’m taking shots compared to when I’m actually carrying out the bulk of the work, clamps etc can get in the way of the shot! It does annoy me when my vice moves around but I haven’t decided where I want it to live yet...
That vice definitely came from a school.. school kids did that on purpose
A school for chimps?
Probably right, kids are destructive for the fun of it!
I was going to say whst numpty owned that, school kids would be a good candidate. Shame we don't have corporal punishment in school anymore, but accidentally dropping the vice on a kids foot would serve.
Yes definitely, it looks like the vice at my school, I’ve seen kids just drill into it for no reason.
man the work you put into it just the dogs bollocks
Very nice vise resuscitation!
This wasnt a "Restoration" it was a Revival!! That thing was Dead!!!! Lol was the previous owner a Blind and trying to drill a record amount of holes in a vise? Lol Beautiful Job! I cant imagine how many hours you spent filing that weld flat. You out did yourself. I truly didnt think that vise could be saved! But you did it. Brilliant work mate! Cheers.
daviddaddy the main body had 4 rounds of welding grinding and filing 😂! I enjoy this stuff though so didn’t mind how long it took really! Thanks for watching!
Dude it used to hold swiss cheese
Nice save!
Bubba did it again, impressive work, look out Bubba want make another hole
Whitworth cap and machine screws, bolts and nuts are readily available in the UK. Google is your friend
Great stuff as usual . thanks for sharing.
Anthony Kent Thanks for watching!
Did you consider a light skim with a milling machine just to tidy up the bed of the vice? Draw filing might have helped too.
Not everyone has a milling machine, and to find a company willing to do small jobs at a reasonable price isn’t easy
-- Finding a home shop machinist who does it as a hobby is an excellent thing to do... hint, hint. Best wishes!
- Max Giganteum
Can I just ask, please would you secure your vise to the bench? Watching you file down with a loose vise made me think you’re wasting time because you can’t get a full stroke on the material. Otherwise, great restoration.
Great work, wondering your next project!
Nice job. Someone really abused that thing for an extended period. If you ever get jammed up on screw pitches, length, etc.; you can get some threaded rod and make the caps yourself. Or, simply fill them in with weld and tap them to a more convenient thread pitch for your part of the world. I like how you tried to keep it original. Considering the shape it was in; quite difficult. Nevertheless, very nice restore on a difficult subject matter.
Good job
VERY Well Done!
Who does that to their tools!? That vise was destroyed!! Excellent restoration!!
This is a schools' special. There are hundreds of these things still in service in schools - ours were in the same miserable condition after forty years. Curently one (in unmarked condition) for sale on eBay asking £200. Hahahahaha!
Get you some flap disks .. you'll never go back to grinding wheels 😁
I do use flap discs most of the time, this disc was on the grinder from the last job I did on my car so I just rolled with it 😂
@@sparesorrepair9118 poor car!
Well done👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Стиль лофт-рестоврация =) Поражаюсь терпению и жду видео с шлифовальным станком =)
Would it not have been easier to just make new top plates for the jaws?
In the words of Mr Pete, "Bubba at his best" Bubba must have been the previous owner of this tattered vice.
_i have several questions about your workflow_
- *why are both the grinder motor* (for polishing and brushing) *and the vice not mounted to the table*
- why didnt you make the top surfaces of the small vice (not the sliding surfaces) flat too?
Hi bro 👋👋👋 awesome restoration vise 👍👍👍💣👌🏽✌🏻
Кошмар Кошмар cheers man, thanks for watching
Really GOOD job! I wonder who was the original "Artist" with the drillpress?
Good job. And what wire did you use for welding this vise? Is it made from cast iron?
Greetings from the U.S.A.Try a supplier of British motorcycle parts for the cheese head Whitworth screws. Norton timing cover used them.
This vise was made from cast iron. How could you weld it?
"Cast iron" can refer to different things. In a machine tool, what you're often looking at is cast _ductile_ iron(aka. black iron), not the metal used for old cast iron cookware(aka. grey iron).
Looks good, but jeez why don’t you mount your red vise to your table? Life would be a lot easier. Nice usable final result.
Very nicely done sir. Above and beyond the call of duty that one.
Its criminal how some people treat their drill press vices. in good condition those Nippy vices are fetching around a hundred quid on ebay.
Has Hammerite blue changed colour? I never used to like it but seen a few resto videos now where it looks quite nice.
Midnight Joker thanks man. This colour is hammered blue, has a nice effect. Standard blue is probably closer to the original colour of the vice but I love the hammered effect finishes 👍
@@sparesorrepair9118 Thanks. I've been using Roundel Blue from Paragon paints, which is the record colour. Think I'll do a couple of the hammered blue now though.
well done
If you are going to do a lot of restorations, involving welding build up, I'd recommend getting a milling machine.
BedsitBob if I had the space I’d already have one! My current workshop is tiny, we are thinking about moving house in the next year or so and big workshop is top of my list! Probably won’t have anymore space though as I’ll just fill it with bigger projects 😂
Quedo hermosa
WOW man! That was a lot of divots you had to fix. Was it cold in your shop? It looked a little Nippy in there.
I always thought these vice main body was cast iron? By the way the UK is not metric BSF, BSW, BA, BSF etc are all still available including the American versions
Good job mash'Allah
WOW! Super!
Really nice work. How did we ever get along before Hammerite paint. :-) Thanks for the video.
I’ve pretty much got the entire hammerite range on my shelves now! Love the hammered colours!
👍👍👍👍👍
Sheesh! That thing looked like it was used for target practice!
mmm swiss cheese nice a grey metallic color with the slight smell of WD-40. Nice oh this is not steve with a mre
That has more craters then the moon geez they had no respect for their tools.
madox76 something tells me that an apprentice was involved, or the night before they watched the film “Driller Killer”. I have a vice like it in the workshop, that anyone can can use, then after purchasing a Bison 4” machine vice that has a quick release lever for the final locking of the product, I will not share it about the workshop after people who shall not be named, started to pepper pot the top , that was soon stopped,
Great restoration job on the vice though.👍👍👍👍👍
You’ve put the wrong screws in it to replace the ones on top as they are sticking up too much
Read the description for full details, but I couldn’t find exact replacements at the time, I have since ordered the correct length cheese head screws and will be fitting them as soon as they arrive! The screws sticking out wouldn’t affect the use of the item though
Nice
どう使ったらパーツをそれだけ穴だらけにできるんだろう?
¿Swiss vise or swiss cheese? Thanks for the video.
Not convinced about the white background to Nippy, otherwise great restoration!
Iazarus To be honest I’m not sure about it myself, in my head it looked much better but I think it’s probably a bit too much. I’ll see if it grows on me but I imagine it’ll be getting removed and left blue if not!
This was my only 'gripe' as well. A minor one, as everything else is awesome.
yuhhhhhhhhhhhh
Це не реставрація.
З таким самим усіхом міг і автошпаклівкою все залитм.
Точності ноль.
Did whomever owned that vise hate it?
To my knowledge Murray Son ltd made Nippy vice's and not Record,i own a Nippy myself and it clearly has Murray Son ltd stamped into the jaws,Murray Son ltd might have made castings for Record at some point but i don't think they were ever bought out by Record like Woden and Parkinson were,also Whitworth thread is the worlds first national standard thread, BSW (British Standard Whitworth) so in the UK we still have a fair bit of Whitworth knocking about on old equiptment, you can still buy it, you just need to know where to get it thats all.
haemhorrhoidian cheers for the info, I did a bit of research before and found a site stating that record distributed the vices and had a lot to do with the company in the later days, just presumed they’d bought them out. This one had Jones and shipman jaws on it, but that vice was a different design casting, I’m thinking this one came from a college or something and they chopped and changed parts from different vices over the years.
I have loads of spare BSW fixings laying around but for the life of me I couldn’t find any cheese head screws for sale! If you have a link to where I could get some I’d really appreciate it, would love to put the proper screws in it rather than the UNC cap heads I used
@@sparesorrepair9118 Well thats very interesting,you learn something new every day indeed,i personally have 2 Nippy type vice's,one of them is a real Nippy by Murray Sons and Co,the other is a Jones and Shipman without the Nippy casting so we certainly have a cross over with your vice :-) it wouldn't surprise me at all if Record did buy them both out,it wouldn't have been the first time they followed that practice.
Now i did some digging about and there happens to be a ton of sellers on Ebay who stock BSW,there's one particular seller who has 1/4" x 1 1/2" BSW BZP Cheese heads in stock :-) just copy and past the size into Ebay ;-) chips as cheap too,i'll probably stick them in my watch list for spares so's to speak.
@@sparesorrepair9118 www.ebay.co.uk/itm/10-x-1-4-x-1-1-2-CHEESE-HEAD-SLOTTED-BZP-WHITWORTH-BOLTS-SCREW-CAMERA-NOS/263607585376?hash=item3d603c8a60:g:UWcAAOSw0dha0hfo
haemhorrhoidian ordered some! Thanks for your help!
@@sparesorrepair9118 np :-) you got me thinking actually,i own a small lathe and thought i could use it to make BSW when it becomes scarce,there's bound to be sizes people need but can't get hold of,i also thought about my soon to be milling machine and refurbing old vices,it would be quite easy to mill out the bed after welding,i'll have to start buying up old Nippy's and get on Ebays selling game!! ;-)
theres one like this on ebay currently , in nearly as bad condition , i chickened out from buying it ........
You need a cat.
I hope the the worker who destroyed this tool was fired!
There speed holes!
Оловом не проще было заплавить?
Welding hurts my eyes! Otherwise, this is really relaxing watch.
yeah, welding cast iron is a bad idea
It's the light that hurts tho.
@@entityct7430 would hurt more if you'd see it in person
I can imagine. I'm very sensitive when it comes to my eyes and ears!
@@entityct7430 you wouldn't even need to be sensitive, it could literally give your eyes sunburn. That's why there are welding masks
😊👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻
Треба було віддати на шліфовку
Tool necromancy xD
Not much to start with
What numbskull owned that vise?! JHC!
it looked so much nicer before you ruined it