Cole No 11 Vise - Restoration

I picked this up on eBay specifically so I could better and more easily use the Cole No 7 drill brace I had previously restored. This rescue didn't look so bad on the surface but the bright paint hid a lot of rust that made this vise useless and not easy to clean up. Over the course of a few months I tried, failed, tried again, and eventually got a whole new sand blasting and compressor setup to help with this restoration and any future ones that come up (as long as they fit in the blasting cabinet).

From what some basic research shows, the Cole Tool MFG company pretty much mainly made the Cole No 7 drill and Cole No 11 vise. It just made sense to get a vise to work with the drill I already had.

0:00 - Intro
1:05 - Disassembly
8:36 - Paint Stripping and Cleaning
10:30 - More Aggressive Cleaning
11:45 - The Joy of Media Blasting
13:12 - Primer and Paint
15:24 - Final polishing
16:10 - Cold Bluing Parts
17:15 - Reassembly
21:15 - Testing functions and adding the Cole No 7 drill

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