It's April of 2024, 3 years after I posted this video, and those other sets of copper vise jaws are STILL at that local flea market, vintage but priced at today's full retail for new ones 🤣
i have this exact same c2 vice in my shop at work . they are stupid strong . i have been beating and abusing it for over 20 years . still works like new
lovingly restored, I love the design of a C type wilton vise, you get more use of it, deeper jaws allowing you to hold thing further down when needed and the look of the vise is totally unique!
The Delaware City Refinery has 2 of the c2s in the welding booth in the main shop we used when I worked there for the maintenance contractor. They are the only vises that you can buy today that are not Chinese junk
@@jonbender9110I am always on the look out for a nice condition Wilton 1940s-60s vise as I love the design on them. I go to estate sales and garages sales very sat so fingers crossed!
Just watched this on Labor Day 2022 :) Nice work. I just bought a C-0 last week from my SIL and I plan on making it as functional as I possibly can. Thanks for the great video. Very therapeutic :)
That's very nice and most likely the approach I would have taken to the restoration. The music was initially pleasant but by 16 minutes, the repetition made it sound like a loop and it was as unbearable as a dripping faucet in a quiet room. I finally muted it to get to the end because I was touched by it being grandpa's vice and couldn't turn it off.
Thank you for the feedback. I agree that it gets monotonous. I needed a quiet "background music" kind of song for this one and the RU-vid music library was somewhat limited in that regard. I hope to have a little more variety in future restoration videos, and some of my other "tool rescue" videos already don't repeat the same song more than once.
Nice work and good restoration. I think you will have many yrs of service out of that and you did it well enough to enjoy it, but (IMHO) you didn’t make it so perfect that you are hesitant to use it. Enjoy!
That was the goal. Preserve the character and keep it usable. Some channels restore vises to museum quality condition, better than factory, and they're so perfect that you never want to use it. This vise has gotten plenty of use in the past year and has lost a little paint but still works great.
i did call wilton to try and verify the age of my vice. she said made in Chicago is the oldest stuff i think it must have been their first plant? the jaw covers are definitely super old, a very nice find!!! she told me the Schiller Park was circa 1957-70.
The method I found that worked had you put an allen wrench in with the short side angled down against the inside of the pin, and you hammer on the long side, which will drive the pin out from the inside. Once it comes out enough, you have to wedge something in there against the allen wrench so you can keep applying force from the inside. Once one pin is out, the other comes out easy with a long punch straight through. You can't just punch one of them to the inside, it's just too long. (Found that out quickly.) I think I linked the video at 8:19 in the message bubble thing at the top right.
I got the same one unfortunately is missing the back cap . Is missing rotating base and the locks for the base . It came just like urs with a nut instead of the lock handles
i picked up my first wilton yesterday idk how old it is but it says 80178 under the wilton logo and C1 101169 up by the jaws its still smooth as butter
If you pull the movable jaw off the vise completely and look under it, there's usually a date stamp on the metal plate that keeps it from spinning in the vise body. "670" stamped on it would be June 1970, for instance. This forum post has a lot of good info on these older Wilton Vises. www.garagejournal.com/forum/threads/old-wilton-vise.118535/
@@SunkCostGarage thank you my friend, u did a great job on your vice and im sure your pops is looking down all smiles that his vice is in the right hands. now that can be passed down to your kids and even their kids. hope you guys have a great weekend over there. subbed up BTW great channel
I have a C0 Wilton from the 70’s (3.5” jaw width) unfortunately just like you mine is missing the pipe jaws. I called the factory and the don’t make them anymore. They have a new version for $180. I am probably going to just live without them.
Search for a seller called "autopts" on ebay. That's where I got mine. They have a pipe jaw for a C0. If you buy two, they are $56.06 each. $112 plus shipping is better than $180.
The tiny garage shop was a mess because I was simultaneously restoring a large Wilton vise and this tool while working on vintage Jeep brakes and a master cylinder, plus doing a couple of woodworking side projects all at once. The barely controlled chaos was temporary and things are more neat again.
Beautiful vise. Wish I had one that size. But....ever thought of cleaning up that shithouse of a work bench? How the hell can you possibly enjoy working in that mess? Good grief!
Next time your tool shopping (whoo-hoo) grab yourself some wire wheels with brass bristles...they are less abrasive so less scratching. I hope your wearing safety goggles when using those wire wheels, those bristles will come loose and take out an eye!
I have the pipe jaws where can I buy the clip that goes on the with the screw. My doesn’t have those bolts on the side for the pipe jaws not even a hole
When I bought my replacement pipe jaws, they came with those spring clips. They were made to work with both the older C2's that had set screws, or the newer ones that used the spring clip style. You could try messaging the ebay seller I linked in the description to see if he can offer just the spring clips and screws, or you could try checking with Wilton. They still make the C2 bullet vise today and some parts are available.
Surprisingly, not too hard. Found a store on Ebay that had the exact jaws needed. The same vise is still produced by Wilton today with a few minor updates to the casting, but the modern replacement jaws still fit the older ones too.
@@zm23fI think it was something like $80 for the pair of main jaws and closer to $180 for the pipe jaws that were missing. (I saw this as a "buy it for life" kind of purchase since I don't see myself ever getting rid of the C2.)
Yep! Brass when I don't want to tear something up or just want to gently polish it, steel when I want to remove rust or junk, or polish something after sandblasting. Safety glasses too unless I like steel stuck in my face.
Thanks for the feedback. I'm still working to improve my skills, but I understand that I can't meet the high standards of some people. I will someday sandblast this vise and redo it again with better paint and overall finish now that I have more tools available to me.
