5" Record Vice going spare.

Respect.

 

Firstly, I couldn't weld then and I can't weld now.

When I was an apprentice I needed to, for reasons long forgotten, weld
two pieces of metal together. I was crap at dropping the mask and
striking an arc and had managed to near blind myself. When I did get it
running I was so pleased I didn't notice I wasn't welding the angle to
the angle but the angle to vice.

It was all rather firmly done by the time I'd finished. I never would
have believed pigeon shit could be so resilient.

 

I take this was days pre-Angle Grinder?

 

You mean you're not really a highly skilled itinerant wood-turner

had me fooled ...

 

You don't, perchance, have a black and white striped best mate? With a
penchant for mashed potato?

 

Grip seized up component solidly in vice, heat for 5 minutes with
oxy-propane pre heater, apply scaffold pole to seized up component and
pull like ****. Seized up component stays seized and vice cracks in
half. Easy.

 

<VVBG>

 

Btdt.

 

Or, use them to press rubber bushes into car suspension parts. When the
bushes aren't going in get a 3 or so foot length of pipe and slip it
over the vice 'bar' (I'm tired and have forgotten the correct word.)
Lean on this hard until you hear a snapping sound when the screw fucks
up the metal it was er.. screwed into.

Then curse a lot.

 

He may well have, but the UKRM choo choo left without the item in tow,
as I was away pickling myself in Real ale that night.

So i'll either hang on to it, or give Big Dave 1st dibs on it again
when I come up northwards.

Cheers

Paul.

 

said...

I had no idea it was there to be taken with me and dropped off anywhere.
Sorry.