The_Yellow_Ardvark
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This vice was a recent item I acquired. It is a solid cast item.
Each bolt and nut are hand made. This means each need a spanner to fit and they can not be mixed up. They will not fit.
Lucky, when it was made each item was stamped.
To de-rust I stripped it down and placed it in Citric acid for a week.
The red oxide now converted to Black oxide/
Being a casting it is porous. So it needs to be baked or heated to draw out the moisture. This shot shows a porous par, casting flaw, weeping.
Plus a bit of flash rust growing.
This will get heat into the metal. When the parts are hot I apply a mix of Linseed oil and bee's wax.
Slowly getting there.
Theses cast iron thread rivets (RHS)are heated to dull red, fitted and the nuts fitted.
The LHS fixings are C/Sunk thread Rivets.
They have failed, so they were welded into place to fix them.
