Broken Vise Restoration - Gressel Switzerland.
In this video i'm restoring a broken swiss vise.
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I bought this vise from a friend for 20$. It was super rusty and dirty, one part was missing, two screws were broken off and the movable jaw was completely stuck. Gressel is very well known in switzerland for making very good, if not the best vises. That fact made it absolutely worth to restore it. They still produce this type of vise today, they just made some very small changes over the years. I found out that they built their vises in this style until 1991. So it's at least 27 years old. It had the rough jaws on, but you could always choose if you want them with rough or flat jaws when you buy a new one. I'm not a fan at all of the rough jaws, because they ruin every surface of clamped pieces. So I decided to put flat jaws on. I still restored the rough ones and I'm going to keep them. I restored this vise for myself.
I hope you like my work and the video.
Timestamps
00:00 preview
00:35 loosen the stuck movable jaw
02:09 disassembling
04:39 restoring the spindle
05:11 removing the pins
05:45 restoring the movable jaw
06:58 restoring the body (fix jaw)
08:14 sandblasting
10:09 painting
11:02 making the missing part
12:10 restoring two screws for the missing part
13:10 restoring the jaws
13:27 reassembling
15:53 showing off the finished product
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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