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I was having trouble keeping the swivel base of my vise tight enough to keep it from turning while
whacking the longeron with the hammer. So I tightened the swivel lock as tight as I could by hand
and tapped it with a hammer to tighten it up some more. After a couple taps I heard this "snap" sound
and it kinda got loose again. Uh Oh. I dismounted the vise and turned it upside down expecting to
see a cracked casting. Hrm...looks OK so far.
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Ahh I see...the head of the bolt cracked through. Well dang. I stuck a standard bolt in there
and cranked it down tight temporarily until I can get either a new vise or a replacement bolt.
This vise is kinda too small to be doing a lot of rugged work on it. It was one of the first
tools I bought as a kid...maybe 12 or 14 years old. I've used the heck out of it. Maybe time
to get an upgrade.
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Even though I put tape over the jaws of the vise I still got some marks on the inside
of the angle. After I noticed this I piled on about five layers of duct tape and that
cured it, but these marks are gonna be a real pain in the keester to polish out.
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After a bunch of work with the die grinder and a 1" ScotchBrite wheel,
I managed to polish out all the marks from the vise jaws.
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