Back in September 2023 I investigated rust eaters for no particular reason other than to avoid getting ripped off by market leading proprietary brands (aka Evapo-Rust). In order to challenge my solution to this problem (sorry), I used an old vise I found rusting away in my mother in law's garage.
This was fairly convincing, although it was in a royal mess to start with. It finished up looking a lot better than it started out but still looked pretty sorry.
What it needs is some wire brush action and a lick of paint.
That's better.
The jaws came off easily. Bizarrely, one of the screws sheared off, yet it was easy to remove the remnant. I'm not complaining!
Bizarrely, the jaws are not parallel but slightly tapered. Is this really intentional??
This needs some attention from the belt sander:
There.
There we go.....
Just needs that set of jaws and the unnecessary roller thrust bearing I ordered yesterday, and we should be good to go.
Here's the leadscrew and tommy bar. I may need to machine a washer to spread the thrust load and possibly a cup to shield the bearing from dust and grit. I'll deal with that later on, after I've got the bearing in my hands.
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