What is this "vise"?

[nelsb01]

My thought.............I look at all the KR Wilson tools out there. Most have been repainted red.

But, it is yours and whether you display it in a place for all to see, or on a back shelf -- that could also determine how you should finish it.

[ford38v8]

Atch, for display only, your idea of JB Weld can produce excellent results. Choose the particular product with care about color for any left visible. Ensure that no burrs prevent a tight fit, groove out two narrow internal trenches on the opposing pieces and lay in JB in conservative beads to allow a full tight fit, each to have small exit ports to the surface to expel excess Epoxy. You’ll know you got it right when you see the expelled product squeeze out from each port.
As for paint if you go that route, consider Rustmort, a one step brush-on that chemically converts rust to iron oxide, while appearing as the color of Red Lead, a perfect choice. Importantly for any paint choice, leave the business end working surfaces totally free of paint.

[GB SISSON]

If you drill and tap the parts for yor special bolts, Then grind out your recesses for epoxy, you might get the best of both worlds. Belt AND suspenders.... Then hit the repair with a cheap Harbor freight needle scaler. Should you opt to weld and grind it flush, the needle scaler makes a very convincing 'sand cast' appearance upon the weld. Then buff lightly and oil it.

[atch]

I was wondering about needle scaling. I don't have one and never used one but I imagine that one or more of my friends have one I can borrow.

I probably wouldn't have thought of the "belt and suspenders" approach.

I also hadn't thought about grooves for the JB. I was thinking about hollowing out both pieces slightly first. Thanks for the tip about leaving a place for the excess epoxy to escape.

[GB SISSON]

I also liked the grooves for the JB. Kinda like a keyway and far more gluing surface. And the escape hole was an excellent addition. In my 20's I did some side work with pattern making for a small bronze foundry. There I was introduced to sprues and risers. Of course the JB needs an escape path. I like threads like this I love to learn, improvise and innovate. I wonder if anyone has ever threaded in a zerk on a big repair and loaded up a cheap grease gun with JB and pumped away? And don't forget the escape hole! ( Is that the sprue or the riser? been about 50 yrs)

[ford38v8]

Sponsored Links (Register now to hide all advertisements)

Gary, You'd have to consider the escape holes to be risers, their dual functions being to ensure there are no voids, and no captive product expansion separating the two halves. I've never worked in a foundry, but have been fortunate to have toured foundries and seen the processes from pattern making through sand and investment castings. It's the same basic tech for everything from jewelry to engine blocks. I would have loved to have been an apprentice under Henry ford's Cast Iron Charlie!
Your idea of pumping through a zerk is useful here, and can be done easily not with a zerk, but simply to use a disposable syringe butted up against one of the holes, which would then function as a sprue.

[Drbrown]

Pleased that it will survive, in what ever presentation you select. I digress .... This reminds me of my German- born immigrant grandfather who worked in NY and NYS foundaries 1905 to 1945 and started his own brass foundary in the 1930's. Before "OHSA" the "oven" was often open to the main work area. Fumes penetrated everywhere. He died of lung cancer at age 65.