Can i save a vise from the scrap yard? Restoration project

[@ShikokuFoodForest]

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!

[@LennartSteffens]

I love that purple! ❤

[@Urusay]

Yes please ! Old beat up discarded tools coming back to life is a joy to watch.

[@workingwithiron]

Quite therapeutic I think hoping to do a lot more in the future. Have some great tools that need restoration here.

[@vinnysmith587]

agreed. It is still good steel, just needs some attention!

[@TimeIsHoney]

Everything was cool until the purple😞

[@Landrew0]

Perfect color for the wife or child.

[@w.d.m-1899]

Record blue dumb ass

[@АндрейНикитенко-ф4с]

... and painting with drips. In addition, painting over rust is a mortal sin.

[@BestUserNameUK]

@@w.d.m-1899 Yep. Roundel blue, like the original Sheffield made vices.

[@jmase8544]

@@w.d.m-1899 yeah my men.... dark blue!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@budmartin8297]

I love that you saved that beauty from the recycler! I was embarrassed for it when the lavender paint came out. LOL

[@Santosh-xy6tk]

The old vise came back to life due to your efforts but you killed it again with the purple colour !

[@iradenver5223]

i realize it is kind of randomly asking but does anyone know a good website to watch new tv shows online ?

[@asherwilliam5389]

@Ira Denver flixportal :P

[@iradenver5223]

@Asher William Thank you, I went there and it seems to work :) Appreciate it !!

[@asherwilliam5389]

@Ira Denver No problem =)

[@Traderjoe]

I like the color! It came out great.

[@mattsadventureswithart5764]

What I like about this is that it's a practical restoration to make a working tool rather than the perfect restorations of many KZbin 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.

[@workingwithiron]

Exactly Matt, it works now, that's all that matters to me. Glad you enjoyed it 👍

[@Tictac-37]

@@workingwithiron very nice restoration, just the color which is not terrible!

[@bruceprosser8332]

A labor of love. I love old tools and especially bringing them back to their former glory the best I can. Thanks for sharing!

[@davidbasile1570]

I love the purple.

[@danielc6106]

Great choice of colour. It's nice to see something different.

[@jasonhergert7573]

Great job mate 😄. I like the purple, you do you.

[@smokingbutch]

thank you so much had a old vice would hardly move now have a great working vice cheers

[@patjohnson3100]

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.

[@grahamditchfield4318]

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!!

[@bigoldgrizzly]

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 ;

[@patriciamueller6892]

Now it it looks like Papa Smurf vise!!! The Smurfs are taking over the world!!! Bad ass Smurf!!!

[@jagboy69]

Nice old vise, but why did you paint it purple? Oh I get it! No one will want to steal it that way.

[@workingwithiron]

That's a great point. It was left over paint so used what was left.

[@howardlovecraft750]

@@workingwithiron Was it leftover paint from painting your kids bikes?

[@workingwithiron]

@@howardlovecraft750 it wasn't. it was leftover from a Kitchen garden fence that was painted this same colour.

[@howardlovecraft750]

@@workingwithiron Just messing with you man. It looked good.

[@Tictac-37]

@@workingwithiron shame, work baclée for me! And you didn't have anything like color? it pains me for this poor vice !!

[@donaldwingett198]

Good job, very nice work. And yes I like the purple and the gold letters.

[@dillotexan]

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.

[@barthanes1]

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.

[@alisondrefahl5153]

It must be the ugliest vise in the world, lol

[@diaasameh]

hahahahaaaaaaaa

[@Monuments_to_Good_Intentions]

There is a purple bandsaw with polka dots on it some woman did. Very nasty looking.

[@mloupee4926]

It takes a real man to work with a purple vise. Fuck it Nathan, you a boss.

[@maskedavenger2578]

The only colour a vice should be is natural & battered ,because it’s getting used as a tool not an ornament .

[@davidhudson6894]

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

[@lincolnjones552]

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 👍

[@hectorquinones4824]

Looks awsome with the color purple great job.

[@plunder1956]

Thanks for saving another Record. They are good.

[@theropesofrenovation]

Nothing better than being able to recognize your tools from a mile away and I mean that!

[@dadratsforge]

Nice job, nice content and my daughter wholeheartedly approves of the colour. 👍😊

[@barthanes1]

I can't believe the handle was straight when you found it.

[@DragonBuilds]

I kinda like the purple color! It makes it unique.

[@shopdoc]

Bold color choice and I like it! It's unusual and that makes it cool! Great job!

[@sunilpandeyjipandey7681]

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[@simpleforging3339]

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.

[@WihGlah]

First restoration I ever saw where someone used anti-seize on the jaw screws. Kudos. Bold colour choice as well.

[@bigoldgrizzly]

I use Copaslip on everything - long after I'm dead and gone, someone will thank me. ;

[@sureshlingabathina]

Nice idea to compress spring

[@amitbhattachariya9357]

Very good restoration job.

[@robertlaxton6883]

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.

[@Banjo-lm2wl]

What a great job well done

[@RESTORATIONOFSCRAPMETAL]

Cool restoration 👍

[@user-ov1jz8rh1l]

Im waiting for ordinary paint - black/gray, but WOW!!! This purple! So beautiful and crazy! Nice job!!!

[@andrewcullen3235]

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

[@kfgrip]

Purple? OK whatever, You go girl!

[@dannysantos1266]

Hard work! Thank god you didn’t paint it a boring black, red, blue or green like everyone else would have. Badass.

[@workingwithiron]

Restoration of an old vise From a skip. so someone had thrown this old record No5 vise in the scrap bin/skip, it was missing the jaws, the screw was good but the spring assembly was incorrect. rusted together and in a very sore state, so i couldn't leave this beauty to go and be melted down into something new so i pulled it out, assessed the work that was needed and decided to bring the old girl back to life. a bit of cleaning up, wire wheeling and a nice purple paint job, a bit of grease and a new washer for the screw, we had this beauty back up into a servicable working condition. I decided to film this for people that may think old broken tools are only worth throwing away. I'm not usually one for restoration work on film but i think i enjoyed this more than i should have and here on the farm we have a lot of tools that need refurbishing so i will be doing plenty more in the future, so stay tuned, please if you enjoyed the video, show some support with a like, leave us a comment if you like the colour or not and if you haven't already please join us in this wonderful community we have here and click that Subscribe button.... its all free!

[@petepeterson4540]

That's great would like to see tools being restored and I hope you chose purple or lavender because that's all you had hope to see you repaint it at a later date in a machinery kind of color grey, teal blue, emerald green, or dark cherry red, or even black metallic flake or strip it again fill all pit chips gouges with weld file and grind them down heat and apply wax car wax is great floor wax also to do it in a blacksmith's black you don't think I am a traditionalist do you, You don't think I am opinionated yes I am LOL your restoration mate cheers! you have it your way.

[@dragan3290]

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 🙂👍👍👍

[@em0_tion]

Copper anti-seize, left-over purple, some nail polish from the wife :P I like your ingenuity, keep it up ;)

[@mwills802]

Well done!!

[@upbuild4397]

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 👍👍

[@5StarRestorations]

Great job!

[@carlosalbertopiran1612]

Amigo muy buena restauración.tengo una igual made in Ingland very very good😁😷

[@michaeldavid4227]

Parabéns amigo 👏🏻 congratulations my friend

[@billpugh2931]

The colour absolutely makes it perfect, brilliant idea. I was wondering what colour to paint my refurb', now I know! Thank you...........

[@rudybriskar5267]

Hopefully you have a blast cabinet by now.

[@MadStiles]

Wow great transformation!

[@darrenjones2435]

Great job, I hope I can get anywhere near that with one I have rescued

[@johnsims1259]

BEST PART OF RESTORATION - *"IT'S A GREAT WORKING VICE" ... "NICE SAVE!"*

[@sayoflores9840]

EXCELENTE RESTAURACION DESDE LIMA-PERU,BENDICIONES

[@JkLow]

Nice color 👍

[@artnels2]

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). 😉

[@MrTtekcalb]

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

[@Reman1975]

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]

It wouldn't take anything to mill those ledges back and to "fit" those jaws correctly

[@Reman1975]

@@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).

[@tedmattingly7564]

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[@rami3433]

Very nice job

[@DannyStroup]

Behold the purple vise!!

[@griseobarba7989]

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.

[@TheCaptainLulz]

Thank you. I have the same vise, and I was wondering how to get the screw out. Now I can finish it,.

[@zubrismusic]

Great video. I’ve never seen so many people pissed off about the color purple 😂 nice work.

[@bigoldgrizzly]

I painted one shocking pink for my son, just to embarrass him, He returned the favour by painting my wheelbarrow .... from the same tin ;

[@zubrismusic]

@@bigoldgrizzly 😂😂

[@CreatorTips.007]

Amazing

[@techronmattic5876]

Nice Job Nathan, i think the resto vids would compliment this channel nicely

[@whodoneit218]

Great for working on your purple Dodge Charger!

[@sudo_nym]

Fabulous vice, darling! 🦄🌈

[@workingwithiron]

Haha, thanks!

[@zipzippery]

the record colour was royal blue - in the UK you can use Hammerite - int he US Rustolem have matching colours

[@jaimiekeirle3761]

The record blue was BS110 Roundel blue 👍

[@johnqpublic9074]

Record vices are very well made... Definitely worth "saving", if one could say purple was saving, lol

[@vidarsigrun]

Gucci'd that vice. Beautiful but it looks so good I would be afraid to use it.

[@zeeshanfarhan5794]

Nice job.

[@armiguelvilla2020]

Beautiful morsa.....😉

[@tructieptinvui1248]

You guys do great, let's create together, see you next time

[@mynameisfen]

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.

[@hassleoffa]

The vice formerly known as Prince.

[@theropesofrenovation]

Nice save from the scrap heap!

[@sureshlingabathina]

How did you compress the spring.

[@restoreandmake]

Absolutely brilliant, your work is a great inspiration for my own videos😊👍

[@paddy120]

Plenty of years left in it now great job

[@marios152]

Where can i get a spring like that? Mine got destroyed

[@davebuts1921]

Nice find, good restore mate.

[@rigilkentaurus3313]

This actually a very good restoration. BS free and no unnecessary fabrication or sandblasting. Congrats

[@grandadz_forge]

Looks great. Attention to detail is golden

[@metalartRestoration123]

Nice one tricky painting the letters I've done it a couple of times.

[@blackpassatjohan]

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?

[@constantinoarnaldoclemente4900]

Bom trabalho SC...Brazil.

[@nigelstone3229]

Excellent paint job!!!!!

[@workingwithiron]

Thanks Nigel 👍

[@MrVip1txrr]

Nice work sir! What type of paint did you use?

[@MrKjm444]

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.

[@alanr4263]

Ha well done I like the choice of color

[@jamesparkerone]

What was the white you painted first? Just a primer.? I did one in straight hamerite no primer and wasnt happy with it

[@workingwithiron]

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.

[@jamesparkerone]

@@workingwithiron cheers

[@mortadhaallami9354]

Lol the colour is like 🍬 and lots more

[@AD-kq2nx]

Everyone hates the purple i think it turned out pretty clean

[@jontypiper9881]

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

[@workingwithiron]

I don't know unfortunately, I was lucky enough to have a working one in this.

[@jontypiper9881]

@@workingwithiron no worries I'm sure I can find something somewhere 👍

[@tuffy16]

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

[@EXELENTEDISCO]

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[@hardrock1826]

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.

[@workingwithiron]

yeh they love the colour 🤣 im gonna cover the next one in glitter i think.

[@plunder1956]

I was a little unsure about the colour, but now I really like it.

[@daig1984]

Nice drill

[@petergaiser4213]

Does it glow in the dark?

[@glennh2965]

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!

[@XWA2203]

Hahaha! I bought an old vise and was curious if any one would dare to paint one purple as I think to be a fancy color for a vise. 😂 Looks great, I like purple, maybe I go for it in the end.