A week or so there was a thread about vises, I should have posted this then. I found this little vise in the old blacksmith shop pictured below. The shop was in operation between about 1890 and 1930. Can anyone tell me about this little vise? What it's purpose was, when it was made, etc..
It's a hand vise, used to hold small metal objects like when filing or grinding on them or bending, anywhere you need to hold a small piece of metal securely while working on it. Not sure about when it would have been made.
It's a hand vise, used to hold small metal objects like when filing or grinding on them or bending, anywhere you need to hold a small piece of metal securely while working on it. Not sure about when it would have been made.
I have a couple hand vises like that one. A old one and a newer one. new and old they are nearly identical. Some of them have a small groove in the jaw, this was to hold pins or small screws to be shortened or somewhat modified. Like was said earlier, I use mine for holding small parts and hand filing those parts. Sometimes I will have a small part in the hand vise and then put the hand vise in a bench vise. Seems goofy but sometimes a bench vise is too big to hold a tiny part.
^^^^^^ Is there any demand for old belt drive hardware and equipment? I see you have some.
Lots of interest a few years ago my cousins auctioned off their dads stuff including an entire shop of belt drive tools and in many cases it bought way way more then the modern stuff
Frankly your sitting on a small gold mine there if you could get it out
I finally found a couple of other pictures from the shop. This is some of the equipment in there, the lathe is rusted up a bit, the drill press still turns but is a little rusty. Is equipment in this kind of shape still worth anything? I don't want to set to work salvaging any of this stuff if it's just scrap iron.
^^^^^^^^ No power hammer that I've seen. It was moved there by sea.
It's not a simple process to get the stuff out of there, I've talked with a couple of the owners, they have no interest in the stuff whatsoever, however, getting official permission to take the stuff is a complex issue involving petty jealousy amongst some of the owners.
Now that I know it might be worth getting the stuff out of there I will try working on the angles.