Broken Deadlocked Vise Perfect Restoration ( I did it again)
I bought this vise pretty much 1. 5 years ago together with the other Gressel bench vise I already restored and made a video. I also payed 20 for this one. Since then it was laying aroung in my basement. I always knew that I ll restore this one as well, just because it s a Gressel and it will totally worth to safe it from the trash. This one wasn t that rusty like the other one, but it was also completely deadlocked. The handle was beaten up and bent. The jaws, some screws and two pieces to hold the spindle were missing. The pin that secures the spindle from turning was broken. Because of all that the spindle fell out. This vise has two threads and two concentric bushings to keep the jaws in place. Talking to Gressel I found out that this method was only produced until 1960, so it s at least 60 years old now. It could be from 1943, as both parts had a 43 stamped on them. As these original jaws are getting no longer produced, I decided to drill an extra hole between the threads to be
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