Betcha Hank was a member of the greatest generation. The skill, patience, and initiative inherent in that vise are attributes that made America the most admired nation on earth. Thank you for doing such a sympathetic restoration.
Great video today. You analyzing Hanks thought process into making the vise and your thoughts on disassembling and repairing and restoring it. Excellent!👍
Great show Magdad! My dad was a machinist and he made a lot of difference items to help him in his work. When I first seen your vise it sure looked like a shop made. You did an Excellent restoration !!! Thank You for sharing!
Looks like a shop project. There was lathe work, milling, taping, and pining. The vise was a wonderful shop project. Over tightened screws are the sign of a young man making sure that the screws do not come out (not conjecture but personal experience on this old man's part). Nice restoration.
Magdad I think Hank is smiling and clapping the way you have restored his vice! 👏👏👏👏👏👏❤ You get an applaud from me as well. I can see my father doing the same thing that Hank did.😊
Thanks Magdad, that was a great restoration and a nicely made vice, those shims give just the right clearance for a smooth but slop free slide ! I think you made the right call on those troublesome threads, it's so easy to push on and wreck the job or snap a tap !
Hank would be very happy with your work Magdad. I was very nervous when you were removing those cap screws with that cheater bar. Thankfully it went well.
As you said, shop made, but very well made. I did get a smile from the hole. I expect some words were uttered when the drill broke through. I know the feeling, I have my share of hiccups. A very good find for $20. I have a shop made machinist vise, about the same width but not as long and smaller diameter screw. Also very well made. I paid $40 for mine, which was also a good deal, excellent condition. It does come in handy. Well done on the restoration. Dave.
That vise is a work of art! My grandfather was a machinist at Ryerson Steel in Chicago and made exceptional tools for use on the job. Looks familiar! Thank you!
Hey !Bonjour Magdad vraiment une superbe restauration de cet étau de machiniste, il est vraiment très beau. Il est vrai qu'avec la perceuse à colonne, avoir un petit étau est parfois indispensable pour percé les petites pièces et les maintenir en place. ❤
That is a very impressive shop made vise. 4 location holes with pins and 4 screw holes for the jaws means a very accurate vise. The restoration looks great! Thanks for sharing this.
What a really great piece MagDad. Hank would be proud! Good judgement on backing off that tap. I broke one off in a rifle receiver once and had to take it to a machine shop to get it out. Since that day I tread very carefully with taps and dies. 😁
All this talk ( 0:20 ) about square things reminds me of my favorite cartoon line-“Fat Albert, how can you be so round and so square at the same time?”
It took a lot of patience and care to bring that vise back. I was holding my breath as you removed those socket screws. I didn't want any of them to break. Besides gaining a very useful shop tool, your careful work is a nice tribute to Hank.
The Hank vise is restored and looking good. No "Made in China" on that beauty. I've broken a couple of taps in my time, glad that on stayed in one piece! You now have a real heavy duty and useful vise. Really nice vise!👍🏻👍🏻
Great results, that vise will definately help you with small items! BTW, Uncle Bob flew in and is resting comfortably on my kitchen table! I’m trying to decide where his permanent place will be!
Great find Magdad. I don't see many of those either. It would be nice to learn something about Hank. I'd bet he was a wealth of knowledge. Nice job bringing that old vice back. Have fun working with it. 😀👍
Mr Hank was a very talented Machinist Beautiful looking Home Made Machinist Vice he must have spent hours in the shop making that vice .. Mr Magdad good thing you found Old Hanks Machinist Vice or it would have ended in the scrapheap the restoration came out great If Mr Hank was still wilt us i am sure he would be very proud of you restoring his home made vice .. Take care and enjoy your Sunday looking forward to Wednesday video What could it be 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Hey Magdad, it’s possibly an apprentice piece because in a lot of trades making a particular piece is part of their final exams. My mum used to sell Wedgwood porcelain and would sometimes get an apprentice piece through and the same with glass cutters that made vases ect. Nice restoration. Cheers mate, Stuart 🇦🇺
Nice vice refurbishing project. A much have for any drill press. Amazing how many times I use a similar vice with my floor model drill press... Thumbs Up!
Back when i was in school shop class in the late 60s i made one of them from ruff castings it taught us how to use the differant machines to do the machineing of the parts and they fit and worked great.
Nice vise Magdad! Just for the record, my 3 year old daughter has been watching your videos with me now and refers to CHUCK as Chucky Bird 😂. She just randomly said it😂
Real nice clean up. I remember that being one of the shop projects in metal shop in high-school reserved for the seniors. Junior year we forged 10" Bowie knives out of files. Could you imagine the pearl clutching and hand wringing that would go on today if that was a metal shop project? 😂 Hank was probably a teen when he made that.
Just a thought, Hank might have used a manual impact driver to set those Allen head cap screws in place at final assembly, those screws are, I believe, a grade 8 in the industry. You were right in saying the screws were to fasten component parts together, it is the dowel pins that take the vise pressure and align the parts, but either with or without the dowel pins the vise would be strong enough to take load pressures being that it is a hand tightened vise, Dowels are for alignment stability/ repeatability of parts location. Great job of refurbishing the vise and they are about the handiest small parts vise in a shop, enjoyed watching.
I don't mind offering a back-handed compliment on your technique for video capture. I was real interested in this restoration when you had acquired the vise.
I agree that Hank made that vice. If it was a production piece, it would have some markings. I enjoy your videos. I hope you and your family (and Chuck) have a wonderful Christmas and the best new year ever!🇺🇸👍🤪
Very nice! I need one for my drill press. Antiseize is very good thing. So many people don't use it. Especially with all the dissimilar metals used today. It helps cut down on galvanic corrosion...
An uncle of mine was a machinist and worked in tool rooms part of his career. That vise looks like something a tool room machinist would have made post war in the late 40's or 50 's
Oh Magdad, you should have used Scoutcrafter 50/50 mix on those 10 bolts. Made my teeth hurt watching you take them out. Ha ha. I really love watching your videos. Hank would have proud of you.
I don’t think Hank made that vise. Someone with the skills to do that wouldn’t have scratched his name in it with a buzzer. He would have stamped it. I bet Hank found it at a sale and marked it to identify it as his. That will make a great addition to your working tool set. Oh, you can clean up the flats on the top of the jaws. Those are meant to hold something up at the top of the jaws, for drilling through for example.
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Betcha Hank was a member of the greatest generation. The skill, patience, and initiative inherent in that vise are attributes that made America the most admired nation on earth. Thank you for doing such a sympathetic restoration.
Thanks! Hank did a decent job on the vise and I can tell he made use of it in the shop.
The sprit of Hank lives on thanks to you. Lovely restoration of a great vise! 😃👍
Thanks ScoutCrafter! I was using Hanks vise this afternoon!
Hank knew what he was doing when he made the vise. Great restoration MD!
Hank did a decent job!
Great video today. You analyzing Hanks thought process into making the vise and your thoughts on disassembling and repairing and restoring it. Excellent!👍
Thanks Frank! Hank did a decent job. I'm proud to be the new owner.
Great show Magdad! My dad was a machinist and he made a lot of difference items to help him in his work. When I first seen your vise it sure looked like a shop made. You did an Excellent restoration !!! Thank You for sharing!
Thanks Jack! I'm happy to be the new owner of Hank's vise.
Looks like a shop project. There was lathe work, milling, taping, and pining. The vise was a wonderful shop project. Over tightened screws are the sign of a young man making sure that the screws do not come out (not conjecture but personal experience on this old man's part). Nice restoration.
Thanks Brian! Hank made sure those screws were TIGHT!
Magdad I think Hank is smiling and clapping the way you have restored his vice! 👏👏👏👏👏👏❤
You get an applaud from me as well. I can see my father doing the same thing that Hank did.😊
Thanks Stephen! I'm glad to be the new owner of Hank's vise!
Magdad, I think Hank was a pretty good machinist! That's a really nice vise you got and will last you a life time. 👏🇺🇲
Thanks Roger! Hank made a solid vise!
Thanks Magdad, that was a great restoration and a nicely made vice, those shims give just the right clearance for a smooth but slop free slide ! I think you made the right call on those troublesome threads, it's so easy to push on and wreck the job or snap a tap !
Thanks Andy! I tried the vise with and without the shims. Hank had them in there for a reason.
Hank would be very happy with your work Magdad. I was very nervous when you were removing those cap screws with that cheater bar. Thankfully it went well.
You and me both! I thought I snapped the first one for sure!
P.S. Thanks Hank
Thanks for a fantastic video and a amazing vice thanks for sharing your time and skill 🥃🥃👍👍🇬🇧
Thanks Brian!
I hope Hank or his relatives see this video. Would be great to hear about how the vice was made! Great job. I have one with plastic jaws!
That would be cool Steve!
@@357magdad That is my vise, I made it in high school with a hacksaw, bow drill and files, I would appreciate its return, thank you.
-Hank
As you said, shop made, but very well made. I did get a smile from the hole. I expect some words were uttered when the drill broke through. I know the feeling, I have my share of hiccups.
A very good find for $20. I have a shop made machinist vise, about the same width but not as long and smaller diameter screw. Also very well made. I paid $40 for mine, which was also a good deal, excellent condition. It does come in handy.
Well done on the restoration.
Dave.
Thanks Dave! I'm surprised Hank didn't weld up the hole or make a threaded plug. Maybe it was a high school shop class project?
That vise is a work of art! My grandfather was a machinist at Ryerson Steel in Chicago and made exceptional tools for use on the job. Looks familiar! Thank you!
Hank did a decent job on the vise. I'm enjoying using it!
Hank put alotta thought and work into that thing!! He would be proud of ya Bud!!☻
Thanks RoadKing! I'm glad to have it!
Hi magdad. You really put your heart that vice. It is really looking good now. Hats off to you. 👍👍👍❤🤠...
Thanks Larry!
Hey !Bonjour Magdad vraiment une superbe restauration de cet étau de machiniste, il est vraiment très beau. Il est vrai qu'avec la perceuse à colonne, avoir un petit étau est parfois indispensable pour percé les petites pièces et les maintenir en place. ❤
Thanks Patrick! I was using it this afternoon!
It’s a great vise! That’s a great thing for your collection!
Thanks Steve! I was using it this afternoon!
Chuck must have been busy wrapping presents when you did the one. Otherwise he would have insisted on a Flitz mirror shine!
Chuck will be at it again on Wednesday.
Very nice resto!!
Thanks Daniel!
Looks great Magdad! That's a nice tight made little vise. I hope Hank sees your video
Thanks Ivan! I wonder if Hank is still with us?
That is a very impressive shop made vise. 4 location holes with pins and 4 screw holes for the jaws means a very accurate vise. The restoration looks great! Thanks for sharing this.
Thanks John! Hank got a little carried away with the dowel pins...
Look's great! Lot's of character too! The shop made tools are some of the coolest out there!
Thanks! It will be handy to have at the drill press!
What a really great piece MagDad. Hank would be proud! Good judgement on backing off that tap. I broke one off in a rifle receiver once and had to take it to a machine shop to get it out. Since that day I tread very carefully with taps and dies. 😁
Thanks Bill! A broken tap is not a good time...
Super nice press vise and a great cleanup.
Thanks!
All this talk ( 0:20 ) about square things reminds me of my favorite cartoon line-“Fat Albert, how can you be so round and so square at the same time?”
We watched the Fat Albert Halloween special this year!
It took a lot of patience and care to bring that vise back. I was holding my breath as you removed those socket screws. I didn't want any of them to break. Besides gaining a very useful shop tool, your careful work is a nice tribute to Hank.
Thanks Pat! Those screws made me nervous!
Getting the last screw out of something like that is such a rush of VICTORY!
I was relieved when it broke free!
The Hank vise is restored and looking good. No "Made in China" on that beauty. I've broken a couple of taps in my time, glad that on stayed in one piece! You now have a real heavy duty and useful vise. Really nice vise!👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks Mike! It is a sturdy vise!
I just bought one of these less than a month ago. Almost no use for it, but my wife can sell it when I am dead. Nice video.
My brother liked to say it’s worth having just to say you’ve got one‼️
Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.
👍 it’s looking very cool. Hank is pretty talented.
Thanks Gayle! Hank did a decent job.
Great results, that vise will definately help you with small items! BTW, Uncle Bob flew in and is resting comfortably on my kitchen table! I’m trying to decide where his permanent place will be!
I'm glad Uncle Bob arrived safely John! I was using the vis this afternoon!
Nice restoration, looks handy!
Thanks Larry! I was using it this afternoon!
Great find Magdad. I don't see many of those either. It would be nice to learn something about Hank. I'd bet he was a wealth of knowledge. Nice job bringing that old vice back. Have fun working with it. 😀👍
I was happy to find it at Jacktown!
Mr Hank was a very talented Machinist Beautiful looking Home Made Machinist Vice he must have spent hours in the shop making that vice .. Mr Magdad good thing you found Old Hanks Machinist Vice or it would have ended in the scrapheap the restoration came out great If Mr Hank was still wilt us i am sure he would be very proud of you restoring his home made vice .. Take care and enjoy your Sunday looking forward to Wednesday video What could it be 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Thanks Roger! Chuck will get to do some polishing on Wednesday!
hank's vise is a functional, well-made work of art that you honored by restoring.
I'm glad to be the new owner!
Hey Magdad, it’s possibly an apprentice piece because in a lot of trades making a particular piece is part of their final exams. My mum used to sell Wedgwood porcelain and would sometimes get an apprentice piece through and the same with glass cutters that made vases ect. Nice restoration.
Cheers mate, Stuart 🇦🇺
Thanks Stuart!
That's a sweet little vise!
It has already come in handy!
IF you got paid for that restoration you would have earned it. Great looking vice and great job.
Thanks Dale! Hank made a nice puzzle for me!
What a great project!
Thanks Gary! I'm glad I got those screw loose!
Nice vice refurbishing project. A much have for any drill press. Amazing how many times I use a similar vice with my floor model drill press... Thumbs Up!
Thanks Gary! I've already been using it!
I think this is your noiseist video ever, lol.
Love all your stuff
I did a lot of grunting...
Nice work on the vise! I was sure you were going to snap that allen wrench - what a relief that all the screws broke loose.
I thought I broke the first screw. Hank had them super tight!
Looks great! Hank would be proud. That's going to come in handy in the workshop.
Thanks! I was using it this afternoon!
Definitely shop made,I made 3 different sizes. When I retired I gifted all my tools to one of the apprentices.
I'm sure they appreciated them Thomas!
Back when i was in school shop class in the late 60s i made one of them from ruff castings it taught us how to use the differant machines to do the machineing of the parts and they fit and worked great.
I think Hank may have made this one in shop class too Larry.
There's always 1! Neat vice Thanks
Thanks Jerry!
Id say that was most definitely diy by a tool & die maker. Ol Hank would be pleased with your work.
I feel like it might have been a high school shop class project.
@ if it was they did a pretty dang good job.
Nice vise Magdad! Just for the record, my 3 year old daughter has been watching your videos with me now and refers to CHUCK as Chucky Bird 😂. She just randomly said it😂
Chucky Bird loves his new nickname! I'll try to work it into Wednesday's video.
@357magdad I bet she smiles real big 😇
Great job on that vice! That looked like it was a a lot fun to work. Thank was a craftsman, for sure.
Thanks! I'm glad I was able to get it apart!
Real nice clean up. I remember that being one of the shop projects in metal shop in high-school reserved for the seniors. Junior year we forged 10" Bowie knives out of files. Could you imagine the pearl clutching and hand wringing that would go on today if that was a metal shop project? 😂 Hank was probably a teen when he made that.
Thanks Phil! I think it was a high school project.
Just a thought, Hank might have used a manual impact driver to set those Allen head cap screws in place at final assembly, those screws are, I believe, a grade 8 in the industry. You were right in saying the screws were to fasten component parts together, it is the dowel pins that take the vise pressure and align the parts, but either with or without the dowel pins the vise would be strong enough to take load pressures being that it is a hand tightened vise, Dowels are for alignment stability/ repeatability of parts location. Great job of refurbishing the vise and they are about the handiest small parts vise in a shop, enjoyed watching.
Thanks Roger! An impact driver would have helped me get them loose!
Really nice job, but I don't understand why you don't wear hand protection we you are using your grinding wheel! It also would keep you hands clean.
I get nervous about wearing gloves around rotating machinery. Plus I like to be able to feel when the metal is getting hot.
I don't mind offering a back-handed compliment on your technique for video capture. I was real interested in this restoration when you had acquired the vise.
Thanks! LOL I was already using this vise yesterday!
I was told that the first project an apprentice would make was a machinistçs vise. Hank was proud of this project, and it shows. 👍🍻😉
Hank did a nice job!
Nice work! I see how convenient that vise could be.
Thanks! I was using it this weekend!
I agree that Hank made that vice. If it was a production piece, it would have some markings. I enjoy your videos. I hope you and your family (and Chuck) have a wonderful Christmas and the best new year ever!🇺🇸👍🤪
Thanks Thomas! Merry Christmas!
Very nice! I need one for my drill press. Antiseize is very good thing. So many people don't use it. Especially with all the dissimilar metals used today. It helps cut down on galvanic corrosion...
Thanks! I had been lookin' for one for a while.
Another great restoration. You should have 100K subscribers.
Thanks Steve! Maybe someday...
Hank would be pleased.
I hope so!
Hank seems like he fit in just right around here! Nice job! Now go mix up ya some 50-50😅
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An uncle of mine was a machinist and worked in tool rooms part of his career. That vise looks like something a tool room machinist would have made post war in the late 40's or 50 's
Thanks! It seems shop made.
Great restoration as always 👏👏
Hank would be proud, came out great!
Thanks David!
Oh Magdad, you should have used Scoutcrafter 50/50 mix on those 10 bolts. Made my teeth hurt watching you take them out. Ha ha. I really love watching your videos. Hank would have proud of you.
The screws weren't seized, they were over torqued by Hank.
Hank would be proud 🎉
Thanks Sean!
Sure, now we know everything like the back of YOUR hand! 😊😊
The director should have yelled "cut"! and had me move the camera.
DUDEZILLA! 'HANK' built that thing to survive a nuclear holocaust!!
It is a solid vise!
I was praying for you those were not going to break when you were using the cheater pipe. Looks great, thanks to hank and shop classes.
Thanks Troy! I thought I snapped the first screw!
Very nice job done on the vise.
Thanks! It is a good addition to my shop.
@@357magdad 👍
Speaking from experience, I was sort of holding my breath that you didn't break off that tap. It would have been hell getting it out.
It was touch and go there for a while Stephen.
Hank probably made that on company time, cost one of the automakers about 5 grand to make that vise.
I think it was a high school shop class project.
I see how handy one can be it came out great
Thanks! I was using it yesterday Larry!
👍 for Magdad at 9:35
Thanks! Spielberg should take notes...
@@357magdad Madgad hand is top tier visuals compared with the modern Shaky-cam that exists everywhere now days, even in documentaries or comedies
Hank was obviously a master!
He did a nice job Chris!
Great video 👍👍👍
Thanks!
They should be standard machine bolts. (1/4-20) I'd replace them. Even though the pins do all the work. Bolts just keep it together.
The socket head cap screws are 1/4-20. It was good practice cleaning up the threads.
Here's to you, Hank!
Hank did a decent job!
Nice video.
Thanks!
Hank must have been a skilled machinist.
Hank did a nice job on the vise.
You need to grind the mushroom off the back of the punch at the 9 min. mark.
That's just a hunk of brass that identifies as a drift.
@@357magdad IT would still be a good idea to grind it down. Wouldn't want a peace splitting off.
Thank you for the video
I'm glad you enjoyed it Joe!
KILLER VICE ! I'll gladly double your money for it ! ...Newk from Kentucky
Thanks Newk! I was using it this afternoon!
most important tool in rebuilding a vise...is a bigger vise
That's great ad-vise!
Was hank a navy machinist?
Thanks for watching! All I know about Hank is that he engraved his name on the vise.
😂 Back of hand.
Spielberg should take lessons from me...
👍👏
Thanks!
Was this not functional prior to disassembly? Why not just clean and lubricate? Seems over the top this time.
It was dirty and rusty. Now it's clean and running super smooth. Cleaning up old tools is fun!
I made one of like that when I had to do na engineering course
It would be a great final project for a student.
What no flitz? Did Chuck flip you the bird? 😅😅
Chuck will be back at it on Wednesday!
👍🤓
Thanks Jim!
Hello. Perhaps education was done as a job. I have almost the same.
I think the vise was a high school shop class project.
I don’t think Hank made that vise. Someone with the skills to do that wouldn’t have scratched his name in it with a buzzer. He would have stamped it. I bet Hank found it at a sale and marked it to identify it as his.
That will make a great addition to your working tool set.
Oh, you can clean up the flats on the top of the jaws. Those are meant to hold something up at the top of the jaws, for drilling through for example.
Thanks!
U out of Scoutcrafter 50/50? Would made that alot easier. But not as entertaining 😅
The bolts weren't seized, they were over torqued.
@357magdad 🙂 Hank is my kind of guy then...
A thumbs up for your hand. NAH.....
Thanks David! 🖐️