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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