Broken Vice Repair - Restoration
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 มิ.ย. 2024
- Last time when I visited my friend with the spray booth to paint the Gresel bench vice, he told me that his vice is broken. I looked at it and saw that it wasn't running as smooth as it should anymore. He took it off his bench and gave it to me to take a look at it. I asked you guys on Instagram and Facebook if you'd like to see a video of this on my second channel and you all clearly said yes.
After the disassembling I've quickly found the issue, the beginning of the threads of the spindle were damaged. I removed all the burrs with the rotary grinder and used grinding compound to remove all damage on the thread and that was it to get it running again.
Half way through the job I decided to go a bit further than just a repair job. I talked to my friend and we decided to give it a new paint job as well. Also a light restoration on all the parts. A bit unusual for a „my mechanics“ video are definitely all the new screws, but just for a quick job this was definitely the right decission. You'll never doing something wrong when replacing old with new screws when taking something apart and put it back together. We also discovered an until unknow function of this vice, it can rotate! That's a very cool feature of this little vise in my opinion.
After all I think it turned out very well just for a quick repair job.
I hope you like my work and the video.
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Timestamps:
00:00 preview
00:44 disassembling
01:48 showing all the parts
01:57 cleaning the parts with the parts washer
02:15 finding the issue
04:04 paint stripper
04:41 finding the brass pin
04:52 prepare for sandblasting
05:13 sandblasting
05:36 restoring the fix jaw
06:44 restoring the movable jaw
07:12 restoring the spindle nut
07:32 restoring the housing
07:58 restoring the mounting plate
08:07 spray painting
09:10 restoring the spindle
09:53 restoring the jaws
10:43 making new pins for the jaws on the lathe
11:11 showing all new screws
11:25 making a new brass pin on the lathe
12:04 customizing a new screw on the lathe
12:29 showing all parts before reassembling
12:37 reassembling
14:54 showing the finished restoration
15:38 final test
16:22 Patreon supporters
Time and costs of this restoration:
I was working on this project for 4 days
$4 new screws
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.
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When a quick repair still means doing a better job than most other restoration channels
Archoir ”Restoration channels” I would call them ”A quick clean and a mediocre paint job channels”
I came to the comments to see if someone else thought this. Et voila... They did...
Most ? You mean..... None right ? Yeah, no one even comes close to MM
I know some other pretty good restoration channels aswell
@Silvester and Veradona Restoration too
I like how you put this on your second channel so your Gressel vices wouldn't know you were cheating on them...😂
I mean he used the first one to hold it
Yeah
@@bandbigred yeah, like a captive, so it doesn't count.
I bought new ones.
Well, didn't expect that lol
zeta555 that’s why he uploaded on the second channel
zeta555 that’s why he uploaded on the second channel
It made me laugh out loud!
federico marcuzzo hahaha exactly😂😂😂
well, it wasn't a full restoration, was it?
"I bought new ones" - what is this madness?!
Binging with Babish, is that you?
Since when do you BUY new ones??
No wonder this is on the second channel!!
TRAITOR!!!
Diego Lama 🤣🤣🤣
He did say it wasn't a full restoration... I think he can buy some bits.
Hell froze over!
my mechanics: "I'm just going to do a quick repair job on this one".
also my mechanics: returns the vise in a brand new condition
we: "Where exactly it was quick then?"
my mechanics: "I bought some screws instead of making new ones".
we: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Oh no. I got a spoiler.
He didn't fix that chipped part near the jaw either...
Fine job ! Love that Blue !
That was exactly my thoughts and I was up to comment this, when I saw your posting. So first one´s first. All likes to you :-D
and didn't fill in all the casting imperfections before painting.
my mechanics: Ok, i am doing just a quick repair.
Result is better than 99% of other restoration channels.
M T exactly what I thought
Not better, different style of restoration
You spelled 100% wrong. 🤣🤣
@@jonny555ive No, the other 1% is my_mechanics.
IncognitoTorpedo and Tysy Tube
'I'm just going to do a quick restoration on this one'
*10 mins later*
Congratulations Mr Stark you have created a new element
Proceeds to grind off all the rough edges the original builder left.
“It’s not a full restoration” he says. Pshhhh.
It really isn't. There was no welding on the rough edges of the anvil or the jaws, and no filler used on the rest before paint. :)
Had it been a full restoration, it would have looked like it belonged in an art gallery. ;)
He wouldn't buy screws for a full restauration. He would make new ones.
... but goes ahead, and does a job, few could ever do..
Henrik Paulsen is it not better than most restoration guys on TH-cam? Yes indeed.
He means that its not rusted beyond recognition
The grinding compound trick was so great. I’m saving that one for sure.
I posted this a year ago and I’m just now getting around to ordering some. That lapping compound is kinda pricey. $65 for a 16oz can from McMaster. 16oz will probably outlast me though.
@@MrCarnutbill67 Use with care though, the threads on a vise are THICK compared to most other threads.
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@@MrCarnutbill67 I've done it just by mixing sand into grease. The actual stuff probably works better, but grease with sand in it works well enough for me.
@@PlatypusVomit Great tip! 👏👏👏
Who here saw the full restoration coming when he took the face plates off the jaws. I’m no Swiss mechanic but I think I knew they weren’t causing the problem! Great video as always!
my mechanics: “i can’t reuse these pins”
me: say it... just say it
my mechanics: “i make new ones”
me: Yaaaay (tears in my eyes)
I swear this is the most fun part of any video.... "I make new ones".
Nice vice!
This really shows why you usually use filler before painting when you're doing a full restoration. Very interesting to see the different results :)
10:57 part-catching-box: *AM I A JOKE TO YOU?*
I scrolled down in the comment section right after seeing that, hoping someone else had noticed and had made a funny comment. And here it is 🤣🤣
My thoughts as well. :)
I had to watch again hahahahaa
That is the only reason this isn't on the main channel
I find myself holding my breath to see if the part makes it into the box....
I don’t know if the expression “golden hands” exists in the English-speaking environment, but this is exactly the case when it accurately reflects this phrase
Maybe this will do: "He has the Midas touch" :-)
@@AAAyyyGGG well it's not the same. Midas turns everything he touches on gold. Golden hands just means that you fix everything you touch. At least, in Dutch it is.
At the fear of seeming superficial or sexist... oh well I'll say it anyway.
You have very nice hands. We don't get to see them often because you have to wear gloves.
@@marycasadone6865 I don't see why it's sexist or superficial. In this line of work it is very hard to keep nice hands. My cuticles are always torn, burrs often scrape skin and sometimes filing and sanding eats away your fingertips and what was left of your nails.
This man clearly maintains a very good manicure regimen.
@@MsDrientje Whilst it's true that the Midas story means something different, the expression in English 'The Midas Touch', has actually come to mean the same thing as your 'golden hands'.
my mechanics: "I'm just going to do a quick repair job on this one".
16 minutes later: *completely restored Vise*
insert *Task failed succesfully* meme
Haha, I went just a bit further than I first planned.
😂
@@mymechanicsinsights If you didn't, you wouldn't be you! (Just in case, that's a compliment)
Not quite complete restore! There was no body filler so it still has casting dimples! Lol.
@@mymechanicsinsights Beautiful work, as always. Out of curiosity, how could you tell that the jaws had been case-hardened as opposed to homogeneously hardened?
My mechanics: just a simple repair.
1hr later...
My mechanics: Can't. Do. It. Must. Make shiney. Make new.
He can't help it. He's obviously a perfectionist and may have a touch of OCD. I get it
Her: So what you are into? Me: It’s Complicated
I just watched Adam Savage butcher a hammer build. I needed this to cleanse me.
MatonMastersound I still wake up in a cold sweat from that.
Very few people would give that vice as much respect. But it honestly deserves it. You save tools. I like that.
So many quality tools just get scrapped, dumped or neglected, though they have decades - even centuries - of life still in them.
This channel has become my new happy place.
I always thought adding filler and sanding was a bit overkill, but now I see why you do it and how big a difference it makes. Nice job on this though, I'm sure your friend is grateful :)
The child in me is begging to write a K on the side in front of NOBS and see how long it takes anyone to knotice.
Glad I'm not the only one lol
Me too.
criggie .... not just me then !
You can also add a K to the end of THUN
I mean, "thun nobs" did it for me without any additional.
May we all be as good friends as My Mechanics is.
WHY IS THIS SO MESMERIZING!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? I CAN'T STOP WATCHING YOU VIDEOS!!
The battle against sharp edges continues....
Do you ever wonder what happened to him to make him hate sharp edges?
Funny, this is what many other channels do for a "perfect" restoration, and even if it is good I miss the "my mechanics perferction" :D
Great job anyways!
The epic vise trilogy is complete. Very satisfying. Ready for many sequels.
Don't forget the huge leg vise
@@mymechanicsinsights oops
My Mechanics definitely is not a mediocre, he can't let a work middle done. He is the MASTER OF MASTERS.
I don't know what the hell is thinking the people that give "unlike" to this art.
If My Mechanics is my uncle, I'd hang around his shop all the time.
I especially like the hot bluing. But over all, this rebuild was "NO B.S." and a THUN of FUN.
He didn't do any hot bluing in this video, nor has he ever in any video. He does oil blackening, which is the same type of finish that builds up on a well-used cast iron frying pan, i.e., carbonized oil. Bluing is black iron oxide (which has nothing in common with carbonized oil, aside from the color), which is why it's also known as a black oxide finish. "Hot bluing" is a real term, and it's also known as "hot salt bluing," and it's far more of a hassle to do than dunking hot steel into oil. A simpler method of bluing is "rust bluing", where you let the steel develop a coating of surface rust (red rust), then you boil it in water to convert the red iron oxide to black iron oxide, and you card off the excess with a wire wheel. You repeat the process until it's as black as you want it. It doesn't require the highly caustic salts and delicate procedure that hot bluing does, but it's more time consuming. It's the original method of bluing.
"Cold bluing" isn't actually bluing either. It's selenium dioxide, and unlike real bluing, it offers little to no protection against rust and it wears off easily.
@@MaximRecoil is the cold blue thing reall that bad? i gota bottle and it doesnt seem very weak
I've started saying to myself at work "can't use this...I make a new one".
Your mathematical skills have got to be legendary.
A new professional restoration job, what I miss is a new video every day because it's so much better than Netflix. Thank you very much and receive a cordial greeting from Spain.
Haha, give me some time to rest ;-)
Never, NEVER rush an artist! :)
I'd rather see perfection than a rush job.
I always wonder how he keeps his hands so nice. I'm starting to think he's just so precise and so practiced that no energy is lost when he sands or files something, therefore no extra energy is available to transfer to hand damage.
If I was your friend and you did this sacred repair for me, I'd be scared to ever use it
Exactly my thoughts. He ruined it as a usable tool because now it is art!
Do you see this vice? I love this vice. It holds things admirably. When the sun shines on it, the paint glimmers beautifully. When I turn the handle, it moves smoothly. Yet for me, this vice is already broken. When the handle bends and the paint is badly scraped and the screw threads are ruined, I say, ‘Of course.’ But when I understand that this vice is already broken, every minute with it is precious. Likewise remind yourself that you love what is mortal; that you love what is not your own. It is allowed you for the present, not irrevocably, nor forever; but as a fig, or a bunch of grapes, in the appointed season.
I love how a 'quick repair' turned into basically a full restore. It's like he can't help himself but make it look pretty.
Friend asks my mechanics to fix his Volkswagen, my mechanics returns it as a Porsche.
my mechanics' definitions:
Light restoration: Works and looks better than new.
Full restoration: Becomes a piece of art.
That grinding compound is like magic. Just don't brush your teeth with it!! I'm glad that you now have two channels! Keep the excellent content comming!
My takeaway from this is: "I wish my mechanics was my friend."
I don't know if you started the restoration genre, but you're by far the best.
I clicked on video so fast when I saw it was My Mechanics. TFS
*I've Many Vices*
One is: Watching this guy work
When you're waiting for weeks for my mechanics to post a new video and rewatching the old ones, then discover he has a second TH-cam channel with tons of unseen videos: glad I'm saved!
Let's face it, there was NO WAY you were gonna just fix it and return it without doing a restoration. It's what makes you so friggin awesome!
When your "quick repair job" is still better than the original article!
Vice recursion. A vice secured into another vice.
Vice inception.
viception
"I used the vice to hold the vice"
My Mechanics: I'm going to do a quick repair job.
Me: Yeah, sure...
Beautiful work. "Quick repair." Way better than I could've done!
Repairing vises is obviously your speciality. Deja vu😆
I hope you're friend is happy with the restoration. I would definitely be that. 👍😊
1. Great job as always !!!
2. PB Swiss screwdrivers - the best in the world!
3. "L" brackets that You use to protect your bench vice jaws... are you making them yourself??? great idea to extend the lifetime of the jaws!
I bought them, the prisma ones are selfmade. Maybe a new video coming soon about them??
@@mymechanicsinsights perfect... looking forward to another video from you :)
I have a stubby PB swiss i altered for use in armory for fencing. Working very good so far.
You are one of the few youtubers that seem to understand the difference between repair and restore. Most restore videos are actually repair videos. This is a great repair video
May all jobs in the world be as quick as this one. ✨✨👏
And the mini grinding machine says: let me sing you the song of my people.... NEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAA NEAAAAAAAA NEAAAAAAA :P
I just love the sound of it! Cheers from 🇧🇷. Amazing work as always! Best of the best!
I'd love to see a video where you had to cut a new acme thread. "this vise spindle is maimed. I make a new one." 👍
I'm ol ways smiling when you start to finish the job, it's beautiful 👊👊👊
Greetings from Brazil
I was going to make a joke about how this quick restoration is better than 90% of other channels, but I got distracted by how cool that swiveling vise actually is
You have to applaud this mans workmanship
My mechanics: "I am going to replace all these screws"
We: "I make new ones"
My mechanics: "I bought new ones"
We: "What???"
Great Restoration About Tool! I Think We Need Other Restoration Channels Restoring Old Tool :)
It is my obvious duty to like every video of my mechanics in 1st 5 seconds.BRAVO NICE JOB👌💞🇵🇰
I like that this is a project for a friend who is going to put the tool to use. Sometimes it's a little sad knowing some of the things you restore will be sitting on a shelf. Both video ideas are great, but I think I might favor this type of video a little more.
I agree! One of the things I love about this channel is seeing him using tools he'd previously restored.
We may have different definitions for the word "quick repair" LOL
Well, at least now we know that mymechanics believes four days is a quick repair
We all need friend like you.
I'm imagining your friend just indulgently being like "yes, you may countersink the screws if it makes you happy." XD
I don't know why, but vise restorations are always the best, hope you have some more laying around!
10:59 you wouldn’t have missed it if it was the pub 🤣
When I read "quick repair job," I let out a little laugh. I knew your level of professionalism would not accept anything less than what you showed us. Beautiful!
I think your channel is the best restoration channel. Please keep the vids coming.
Amazing job as always 🤩
I think you posted on your second channel because the pin dropped out the box at 10:58 😆
my mechanic: "I bought new ones"
me: < confused, checks the channel to make sure this is the right video >
Metal and you were made for each other....you breathe life into anything mettalic that you touch. Thank you for this restoration .👍👌
Amen :-)
I’m so glad this was just a quick repair job and not a full on restore I don’t think I could have time to watch the full restore excellent job
Ayy another vise, love these
"I can't reuse these pins."
Me: *lying in bed with a goofy grin* Here coooomes.. 😆
For some reasons i feel very satisfied whil watching restoration videos
Please start restoring items and put them up for auction. I and I'm sure others would love to have a piece of your awesome work!!
Quick repair ??? Lol 😂 I could see that coming. I love your stuff.
I love that you just had to restore it ha ha!! Beautiful as always!
I just couldn't let it untouched ;-)
@@mymechanicsinsights "The ocd is strong on this one"!
You're the only channel makes me sit and watch a vice being restored. It's what you do and HOW you do it. Cheers
He actually put this video on his second channel, and probably lost a few million views and a few thousand dollars, just because he thought this wasn't good enough for his primary channel. He could just name it "a quick restoration" and put it there, it would have far more views, like his other vise restorations do, but he didn't want that. Mad respect.
Very nice . Hard to tell that the finished product didn't just come out of the factory packaging. If l may share a trick l use on gun parts - on parts like the jaw plates , place them in boiling water for a few minutes. This will expand the pores in the metal . When you take each part out of the water it should dry itself just from the retained heat . When dry but still hot apply the cold blue , then oil . l find that this seems to give a sturdier coating as it penetrates a little deeper . Stay safe .
I think that's because chemicals react better with more temperatur. Thanks
I notice when your painting the letters and they are raised. Would it be easier to get a long flat sponge and just press down and do all the letters at once? awesome job!
Maybe, but i'm too scared to mess it up
@John Harwood hmmm, I'm going to try this one. I usually use the Geoffrey Croker method of a tightly rolled piece of fabric, folded tightly again, which makes a nifty blotter.
John Harwood great tip, thanks.
You are the best bloger in TH-cam among all who do the same repair work. And others copy your style.
A prefect "lockdown" video! A Restoration with NOBS on it! For us here in the States!
My hands vise the phone, I watch a vise getting its vices repaired in vise because My Mechanics is a vice for me.
"Grip me harder. Tighter! Ah..."
Of all the years I've seen the "hair" for a pfp, I finally fell for it and just caught myself about to blow on my screen to get the hair off.
@@op3crimsin 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
The third one XD Awesome as always!
There's a fourth one, don't forget the huge leg vise ;-)
@@mymechanicsinsights of course, how could i forget! XD
The care you show even when it's a 'quick' repair is obvious. You make these tools like new and give them decades more useful life than as an antique. Thanks. It warms my heart.
Hi my mechanics 👋👋👋 good restoration of the vise 👍👍👍 every time I watch your videos and every time I admire, respect ✌🏻💪
My mechanics: 'I'm not going to do a full restoration"
Then does a full restoration better than new.
Nah, he skipped the rough edges around the anvil and the jaws.
Those "battle scars" are why it is *not* a full restoration. :)
as we all know, when MM say "I'm not going to do a full restoration", he means he will make a new one🤣
That ending! So clever with that bolt and brass pin... i had no idea that was coming. Brilliant!
We live in the same country, but not in the same world. When I lend a tool to my friends, it leaves in perfect condition and it returns broken after a rapid destruction. The video of my ’my mechanics’ ’, but backwards…
Seriously, congratulations on your work, it is magnificent, of exemplary quality and of a magnificent finish. This gives us, humble handymen, the example, the desire and the goal to achieve for our work. And even if we don't get to the top of the mountain, we will end up reaching the top of a hill. Thanks for that.
This dude's channel can easily be summarized with "You know what? Screw it, I'm gonna go fix and repair things and nobody can stop me."
- can't reuse these pins
- OMG he's gonna say it! He's gonna say it
- I make new ones
- Yaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy
This is the first time you bought a new pair of screws, I'm surprised
Great job! I think this restoration would look nice on the main channel.
Just missing some details for the main channel. I'd go way further than this
it's just 200% better than other channels. Not enough. 😂
Your “quick” repair is amazing.
I was going to post asking what the brass pin was for, glad I watched all the way to the end. Makes me want to pull my old vice off my bench and overhaul it, then I remember I don't have any of the tools you have so I'll just let it sit.
Great content and love your videos!
Let's put it this way: My Mechanics is the Original and others are pure imitation.
and bad imitations at that my friend.
The sounds of the machines in combination with the lack of other noises like music actually made me dose off about halfway through... after watching another time, I love the end result!
Pride in workmanship 100%