Broken Vice Repair - Restoration

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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[MrArchoir]

When a quick repair still means doing a better job than most other restoration channels

[MrCarnutbill]

The grinding compound trick was so great. I’m saving that one for sure.

[treypowell]

WHY IS THIS SO I CAN'T STOP WATCHING YOU VIDEOS!!

[brianlindauer]

I like how you put this on your second channel so your Gressel vices wouldn't know you were cheating on them...😂

[dieterpeter]

This really shows why you usually use filler before painting when you're doing a full restoration. Very interesting to see the different results :)

[MrHarpless]

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!

[evilcab]

I bought new ones.

Well, didn't expect that lol

[midjetville]

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 :)

[JACING]

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)_/¯

[janvanassen]

I'm ol ways smiling when you start to finish the job, it's beautiful 👊👊👊
Greetings from Brazil

[robomonkey]

'I'm just going to do a quick restoration on this one'

*10 mins later*

Congratulations Mr Stark you have created a new element

[joelsanders]

“It’s not a full restoration” he says. Pshhhh.

[bob-nykn]

I especially like the hot bluing. But over all, this rebuild was "NO B.S." and a THUN of FUN.

[oldesertguy]

Beautiful. I restored an old Wilton vise I inherited from my uncle. It turned out okay, but nothing like what you have done.

[GatoLand]

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.

[M_to_the_T]

my mechanics: Ok, i am doing just a quick repair.
Result is better than 99% of other restoration channels.

[diegolamaart]

"I bought new ones" - what is this madness?!

[BallerinaPocket]

Great Restoration About Tool! I Think We Need Other Restoration Channels Restoring Old Tool :)

[pronzfalcon]

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)

[oatlord]

I don't know if you started the restoration genre, but you're by far the best.