Rusty Vise Restoration Record NO.3 

I have one of these and it's a turd--I bought it cheap for a job and promised I'd restore it once the job was finished. It's finally time to get down to it, so cheers for this one Alex.

Great video, no waffle or filler just got on with the job, now know how to dismantle mine! Thanks.

Pretty good restoration. Good enough for me to subscribe. Just one point; use the largest screwdriver the screw will take. Gives you more leverage. Thanks.

This is a nice high quality vise. The care and maintenance you gave it will add many years of life to it. Besides, it's always more pleasant to use a clean, nicely functional tool than a dirty neglected one. Thanks for saving this good vise, and regards from the USA.

Beautiful restoration. Thank you for keeping the character and functionality to keep that vice working.

When you do electrolysis the red positive lead goes on a piece of scrap steel so the rust gets attsched to that not the part of the vice, spart from that you did sn awesome job

Great job. I am puzzled why some people feel the need to be rude in comments. So dumb. You did a really nice job here.

I’ve seeing a good restoration without a weird modification. Thank you, great work.

Alex, great job. Also, your timing of the film was excellent.

I just bought a Number 3 on an auction. Will be picking it up tomorrow, don't really think it's in bad shape but it does need some clean up. Hope I can do as good a job as you did. Thanks for the video, I will use it as my guide. That's a nice color Blue you used on the repaint. Well done.

Nice job, just in the middle of restoring my dads old no3. He brought it home when he retired 40 years ago...it’s been bolted to an outdoor bench since. Remarkably it’s not in too bad a condition but wears its battle scars.

To get rid of a old vice to extinction is not logical we must preserve for future generations good job mate! Bye bye shipmate!!!

Good job man!

Nice job thanks for sharing 🍺🍺👍👍👍👍

Great job. It must have take massive force to snap that base in half. The remains of the little hole along the middle of the broken edge is where a retaining pin was driven in to prevent the threaded part from moving backwards.

Bravo ! Bon travail, j'aime beaucoup tes vidéos !

That was a nice restoration. Blue gloves+blue hammer+ blue vise=favorite color, blue. :-)

thanks, l have the same and couldn't work out why it isn't working. now l see where there is a pin on the rod, need to get the pin and replace, though l can't see that there was one. closer look after your great video.. but seeing this, l am going to clean mine up first. Great job

Thanks Alex!...Just what the doctor ordered.

good work on the vise I like the color choice!

Really good job thank you

Well done again!

Great video, I have exactly the same vice that I am looking to restore. It has given me some ideas thanks 👍

Good restoration bro 👍👍👍👍

Looks great man,well done..

Wow man that's awesome thanks

Holy wow!!!

Nice restoration

Ok, I am glad to see you put something in the tapped holes for the jaws. Too many times I see guys who've had to move Heaven and Earth to get a rusted/broken screw out and they always just put a new one in with nothing on them to prevent the same thing happening in the future. I always wipe mine with a anti-seize lubricant, you shot in some grease. Good job. Also, primer and paint. Double good job. However, you didn't get all the old paint off before painting. Points off for that. LOL!

I noticed that the rear of the footplate was broken off which should have a 3rd fixing hole at the back of the vice, have you found it stable in use with only 2 locating bolts?

Great job bro, ready for another 20-30 yrs...

Well done nice job.

Lovely job. What shade blue did you use ?

Alex, one more thing. That screw driver you used was too small, you could have damaged the screws.

Hey there, thanks for the video. This was EXTREMELY helpful. I couldn't figure out how to get my old seized #3 working and low and behold, you explained everything. I am however, missing the tightening bar's spring pin. It's a 1/8 inch (I believe) where would I get a replacement or does it matter as long as it's metal and fits?

Was there a big piece missing on the base or was it made that way?

Fun to watch. Good pace and clear videos. For my benefit, I wish you showed the products. What type of paint, stripper, the other end of the leads etc...

Excellent restoration. I would prefer to have a spoken commentary, but thanks anyway.

Top job. 👍🏻 I have the same vice, which is why I’ve searched for it on RU-vid. Please could you tell me what you used for the electric passing through the acid bath? Was it a 12v battery or something mains powered? Kind regards.

Well Done! Nice color! Subscribed!T-Wrecks

All very well if you've got the tools.

It would be really useful if you could tell us how long it took you in total, and how much it cost (paint, etc.)

I just refurbished a Record No 3 (video uploaded on YT) vice and mounted it on a stand because I need mine to be portable. These are great vices. You could use another steel to weld a repair section on the base. Weld it on using dissimilar welding rods and a Manual metal Arc welder. You would need to pre-warm the vice beforehand in an oven to raise the temperature so as to avoid a thermal shock and then weld failure.

Have the same little vise on my bench, old records have serious quality. Just restored a no.24 today, makes this vise look tiny compared to it 😁😁

Hey, thanks for the video! I’ve followed your video step by step but had to stop before I could finish and the vice has been sat in the garage for a couple of months. The non painted metal has started to rust again, despite the initial citric acid bath and rub down. Any thoughts as to how this can be avoided? I’ll rub it down again but don’t want it to keep happening. Thanks, N

What about the broken base?

A great restoration, but why did you not use the correct size screwdriver to remove and replace the screws ?

What colour is that paint?

Muito bom.

got one of these in front of me now and the paint is long gone. a burnished dark brown . with a family of ceramic ducks and a kill switch, an ignition switch locating plastic locknut, and a carb choke plunger from a kawasaki triple on the projecting bit at the back of the vice. thats russian literature mr romanov. and true.

Great restoration job. What voltage did you use for the electrolysis?

Not bad, but the title is somewhat misleading - it's a Vise paint job, not a restoration.

Алекс молодец Спасибо

How much citric acid do you add to the water?

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That record no.3 made england pure coper or not?

Great restoration except the cheap paint.

O cara pintou o negócio quebrado! Isso não é restauração!

I did not say replace the screws,what I did say was you should have used a wider bladed screwdriver as you looked like you were struggling with the narrow one you were using.

I Bought The Same Record No.3 Made In England Vice From A Carboot Sale In The UK For Either £2.00 Or £3.00 It Works Fine I Greased & Oiled It Up After Taking It Apart The Base Of The Vice Is Broken On Your Vice I Have A Collection Of Record Vices The Largest Record Vice I Have Is The Record Heavy Duty No.112 Made In England.

its bust at the back not worth restoring >scrap

That paint looks like sh*t