DiResta 280lb VISE restoration 

Absolutely right. Actually, I've become a vice restoration junkie and need help immediately. I'm scouring RU-vid for my daily fix and happen to have come across this. Oh what a rush....

@@simonacuthbert1you’re stealing my thoughts - I like it when they sand blast to de rust them (not sure if that make me a sad case but hey)

I see what you did there... Every Dad in this room applauds ;)

I have 3 vices in my shop, named them Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n Roll

@@dustysparks this dad giggled like an idiot.

You better!

the vise would still be kinda big if that were cm...

Lol

I see you !

Your face at 2:03 is everything. :P

Lol

The smell of fresh EvapORust lol!

Oh ya noticed that too eh bud?

Huh... gonna try it this weekend :)

I was thinking the same thing. what's the alternative? pre-soak in rust remover before working the parts free? edit: I thought you were referring to the base coming off. but still, what other options are there? hydraulic press? soak in oil ore additional rust remover? I liked their heating idea to loosen the grip

@@TomsLife9 50%50% automatic transmission fluid and acetone. Chews up the rust and penetrates deep in the cracks. Freed lots of rusty things up with that mix.

I am from Erie PA also. It's great to see these old Reed vises still going strong and it's one of the few of the heavy insustries still operating in Erie. DiResta and his friends did a great job restoring that monster. The patent date on the vise is my birthday except the patent was 47 years earlier! Too bad that many of the old factories lining 12th street are mostly gone, and GE is a shadow of what it once was, there were almost 14,000 employees when I worked there. I grew up on the lake shore between Hammermill Papers and GE.

If u ever need a good home where one of those vises will b well looked after I will pay shipping lol

Hu...so it's your fault I can't find any.

Do you have any Wiltons? What models? I just picked one up

LOL

Or adding some penetrating oil, works wonders. Carl

Yup. Amateur hour.

Just going back to watch older videos and was pleasantly surprised to see this :)

IMHO acetone and ATF is fine for a small glass jar (or perhaps a quart) of parts, but the flammability risk is too great when using a larger quantity of acetone. A saner (and safer, cheaper) "solution" 😆is diesel mixed with about 30% ATF. Very old and proven mixture. Just did a large industrial chain at work a few weeks ago using 3 gallons of this very mix. Very successful as always.

just $98?

98 dollars in 2016? I'm not too sure about that folks :)

@@thomaaz My mistake - 1916 price was $98. Sorry! It's from the 1916 catalog and then the 1916 price.

You know anything about the Reed 224 1/2 R? Google doesn’t know anything about it.

@@ReedPipeTools thought so :), amazing tools, they last 2 lifetimes.

I love the replies from Abom that are sourced into a video that are simply expressions of "WTF"

@@ytwdh Tony uses that to great effect :D hehehehe