I've a Record No23 engineers vice bought forty years ago and has served me well ever since. Once in a blue moon I will strip her down, clean up with a wire cup brush in an angle grinder, etch primer and then a couple of coats of blue Smooth Hammerite, brushed on. I replaced the jaws a few years...
I've located some on eBay - missed it first time around. It's to attach a handlebar screen to motorcycle handlebars. Th existing 9mm steel bars are too short and there isn't quite enough meat on the adjustable brackets to drill the holes out to 3/8". But thanks anyway.
I have been struggling to locate a metre length of 9mm dia. aluminium round bar. It HAS to be 9mm and not 3/8" as it has to fit snuggly into some brackets. 3/8" no problems but 9mm seems impossible. Any ideas?
I've restored both and engineers vice (Record No23) and their wood working vice (Record No57). I just cleaned everything up with turps/thinners/white spirit after removing the rust with a wire cup brush mounted in an angle grinder. Painted everything with Smooth Hammerite in light blue, oil then...
The Ajax pillar drill is now up and running now but only after a few glitches. Right, the v-belt. I bought mine from www.machine-spares.net which cost a whopping £26.48; and identical belt on eBay cost a tenth of that. It was a Dunlop A-44 by the way. I could have put a length of string between...
Thank you. Today I mounted the isolating switch against the side of the drill and wired it to the motor and 3-pin plug using some heavy duty flex. And it works! Now all I have to do is to fit the pulleys and locate a suitable v-belt of the correct size.
I have this old Ajax pillar drill Type B-16L which has been gaining dust for a few years. Now cleaned up and painted, I should try to get it going. So my questions. There is no wiring or cable from the side of the motor forwards to the missing on-off switch. I have bought a suitable on-off...