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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 able to use new jaws. Gressel was so nice to send me new flat jaws. All the bare surfaces were in really bad condition due to heavy use, that's why I decided to weld up material and clean all these surfaces on the milling machine. I replaced the handle with a new one, but I used the old rounded ends again which turned out great. I later secured the ends with Loctite when reassembling. I also made the two missing screws and the broken pin out of the old handle. I choose to paint the whole vise the same color as the movable jaws from the new Gressel vises are, cobalt blue (RAL5013). I think it turned out very well, the white lettering, the shiny bare spots and the black parts match very well. I hope you like my work and the video. Huge thank you to all of my Patreon and PayPal supporters and specially to: Adel AlSaffar afreeflyingsoul David Barker Gregory Muzaffer Aksoy Vince Valenti Yale Baker Alan Hanson alex latzko Amanda Taylor, Esq Andreas Mimra Andreswara Hermawan Andrew Phillips Anthony Adams Arni Bjorgvinsson audi4444player Courtney Maleport Cristian Zorilla Dan Williams Dre Gilley Harper Kim Hunter R. JD Smith Jessica Alexander Joel Miller Jonas Richartz LVE Marc Cercier Martin Rønnow Klarlund Mauricio Pacheco Mellissa Marcus Mellissa McConnell Nick Cannon Paul Ambry Paul Mampilly Risky Deem Robert Everich Shikidixi Trevor Kam TRG Restoration 웅록 윤 Timestamps: 00:00 preview 00:44 disassembling 02:45 showing all the parts 02:53 cleaning the parts with the parts washer 03:11 removing the old bushings 04:24 sandblasting 05:17 restoring the fix jaw 07:57 restoring the movable jaw 09:45 restoring the ends of the handle 10:37 making a new handle on the lathe 11:48 restoring the spindle nut 13:15 restoring the spindle nut holder plate 14:05 making two new screws for the plate on the lathe and milling machine 15:27 restoring the spindle 16:21 making a new pin for the spindle on the lathe 17:04 making the missing parts for the spindle on the lathe and milling machine 18:12 applying filler 18:52 painting 19:41 showing the new jaws 19:54 showing the new hardened pins 19:57 showing all parts before reassembling 20:09 reassembling 22:26 showing the finished restoration 23:22 final test 23:49 Patreon supporters Time and costs of this restoration: I was working on this project for 2 weeks $20 vise $20 2k primer $30 2k coat cobalt blue (RAL5013) $30 steel for new parts My camera: Panasonic HC-V180 If you have any questions about the process, machines i'm using or other stuff, just ask me in the comments. I read them all and i try to reply as soon as possible. Sorry for my bad english, it's not my language. I try my best to improve my technical english. Subscribe for more of my content. I'm uploading videos about mechanical stuff, as new creations and buildings and also restorations. Thank you for watching :-) „I make a new one“ T-Shirts: My Main Channel: My Second Channel: My Patreon Page:
