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Welcome! Today I'll be restoring this small old rusty table clamp. I've been using this clamp in a number of my previous restoration videos, and I finally decided to give it a proper restoration. It's been a while since I've done a tool restoration video since I've been so busy restoring vintage hardware, so it's nice to change things up a bit and do a rusty tool restoration! No need to fear though, I'll be back to restoring hardware in the videos following this one haha.
To start off this clamp restoration I needed to uncrimp the jaw. I wanted to use a circlip instead of riveting it back in place, so I had to decide how to remove as little material as possible. I did this by uncrimping it with vice grips. After that I simply unscrewed the handle and the rusty clamp was fully disassembled.
Next I moved on to paint stripping. I honestly couldn't even tell if this was painted or not since the roughly casted pieces had a paint like texture to it in areas. I used an aerosol aircraft paint remover and wire wheeled any paint away - Though I'm still not convinced there was actually any paint left aside maybe a little on the cast iron main piece haha. Then it was time to remove the rust. This wasn't my most rusty restoration project, but I always use Evapo-Rust (no, not a sponsor haha) for the rust removal stage since it can soak into every crevice.
Following this I went ahead and wire wheeled all the parts. Of all my tools I use the Dremel tool the most, and I of course used that to wire wheel the small parts. Then I moved on to restoring the handle. I started by filing it, followed by sanding it and filling in all the defects with body filler. I then moved onto painting the handle, and let that dry for a week. Then I cold blued the threaded areas on the handle.
Next up I restored the jaw. It was also extensively sanded, and was then polished to a mirror finish. Like in my previous antique restoration videos I wanted to lacquer the polished jaw. Unlike in my previous restorations, this time I mixed up a green tinted lacquer which I hoped to match the paint I used. Long story short, it didn't haha. So I stripped the lacquer off and blued it too. Cold bluing steel sometimes produces a junky looking surface, and the jaw wasn't as nice looking after bluing as I would have liked but that's okay.
Finally it wise time to restore the main piece. Like earlier on I started restoring it by filing the rough areas down, applying body filler, then finally it was painted with a hammered green paint. I loved the color of this paint, but was ultimately dissatisfied with the consistency of it. This piece looked great the first couple days, but after a week it had such bad orange peel that the once glossy surface turned to a completely matte surface, despite following the directions to a t. So I repainted the main piece, and was pretty happy with how it turned out the second time.
Now it was time to reassemble it. Since there were so few parts it didn't take long. I gave it a quick test, and it works great! There wasn't anything really to repair with this clamp, but now it'll be presentable when I use it in my future restoration videos haha. This may not have been an entirely perfect restoration, but it's great to finally have gotten around to fully restoring this handy little clamp!
Time Stamps:
0:00 Welcome!
0:34 Disassembly
1:12 Paint Stripping
1:49 Cleaning Parts
2:27 Wire Wheeling Parts
3:16 Sanding the Screw/Handle
5:09 Painting the Handle
5:27 Bluing Threads
5:44 Sanding/Polishing the Jaw
6:42 Lacquering the Jaw
7:21 Bluing the Jaw
7:33 Sanding Main Piece
8:46 Paining Main piece
9:21 Reassembly
10:29 Before and After
11:04 Testing It Out
12:03 Thanks for Watching!
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