Float Lock Vise Rework #1 

70 years old, couldn't sleep, some very nice content from a favorite contributor. Thanks James Kilroy!

I love watching a metal shaper in action. It's almost poetry in motion when you see how the mechanism ratchets itself over to make uniform cuts across your work piece.

Just won one at auction and can't wait to get it!

My great Uncle was a machinist. He passed away when I was just a boy, in the early 60's. My father inherited some of his tools. I remember he had a lead hammer like the one you use. I never knew, at that time, what it was used for.

Weld up the drill marks on that shaft and turn them down and polish. It'll looks just like new! Always enjoy the videos :)

thanks for the sharper action. keep up the good work

Love watching the shaper in action. I hope to own one some day. thanks for the video.

Yess the first time through did put me to sleep!!! Thank You was needing it!

who would want to skip the shaper work...... best part of the show...

I have a Float Lock bandsaw vise and it has one jaw with v grooves and one with out. So I believe both of those jaws are original to your vise.

Bring that Pacemaker gear up before Saunders event and lets get that tooth cut! I see it still sitting on the table. I wonder if they had that thick jaw on there because the locking section was damaged and it wouldn't hold closed that close anymore? Always good to see some straight line lathe action. :-)

james great shaper work , cool.

COOOOL SHAPER ACTION !!!

I guess that was a sleeper hence the message to sleeeep. Thanks for the video.

thanks for the shaper action does it matter which way you feed with the shear tool

would the thickness of the sliding jaw pad have something to do with lining up the shaft groves for locking in place because of the short tightening length?

Why would anyone skip the shaper action? 😀

Sorry to bother you with this kind of question, but are you using a new video format? I only ask because I experienced simply horrible buffering delays watching this video. It stalled roughly every ten seconds to buffer the video. As a test I jumped over and watched Adam Booth's newest video and watched Keith Fenner's newest video just before and experienced no such buffering problems. My link is fairly fast and I seldom -if ever- experience buffering delays. In fact it is usually fast enough for me to download a file in background without buffering delays. Just curious. Problem solved! Just had to update RU-vid app. This time it actually worked. (Last update just gave me black screen with audio. So I had rolled back to what seemed to work.) These weekly updates are getting old. I've been computer literate since the mid seventies and I have a hard time keeping up with things. Can't imagine what it is like for computer newbies.

If something like that was in a flea market around here the price would be $50 firm and missing the moving jaw :(

What kind of $%$%@# puts holes in the shaft of such a vise. For crying out loud, i get it, some things are inevitable, but this just screams laziness. Good thing it got in to your hands, i know you'll do it justice, these are really good tools and it's a damn shame when they get abused in such ways.