I had to buy replacement bolts from the US. Many of the original bolts were gone or rusted out. Nothing a good clean up with a power wire brush can not do. It had been under a workbench set on dirt floor, and after a few floods had sunken in the ground. I don't have pictures of the vice in the original state I bought it in. I will need to increase the weight of the counterweight to 40 or more kilos since it turned out to be insufficient.īelow some photos of the tripod construction and an ad from when the vice was new. I used 4, 5KG old gym barbell disks for that purpose. The back leg got a counterweight just to be safe. Front legs are in the same plane as the front edge of the base so they do need to be tucked in a bit so not to interfere with the vice handle that is rather long. the two front legs are at 20 degree and the back leg goes out at 30 degree. The old cold saw struggled a bit to cut it but it's all done now. The base is on a tripod, same material I used for the anvil stand. The base is a 12mm plate 380x520mm Welded a ledge on one end where all the hammering is going to be. well as mobile as a 60 kilo vice can get. It's a bench vice but I want it to be mobile. Some time ago found a 100 years old vice on Gumtree and made a stand for it. When I replied about 100 years, he nodded and said. He took it in his parents garage, covered it with a tarp, and the anvil stood there for the next 40 years. He told me that when he was 15, a friend of the family then in his seventies, asked him if he could "-get rid of this for me". It turns out this was his parents house and he lived there all his life. To smooth things out I made some small talk and asked how he came about the anvil and if he did some smithing. The owner of the house was in his sixties and seemed a tad shy or something, like he was not in his comfort zone. The suburb was a very posh Sydney suburb, not your usual second hand tool burb.Īll went normal, the usual tyre kicking, the price was way up there, so I offered about half, and we settled half way. The supernumerary attachment is my boat's fuel tank and shouldn't be there, yet I don't know how to get rid of it. I am sorry that the photos are on their side, they are upright on my computer. Sand makes the tripod silent and oil prevents rust. The stand is a tripod with a 19mm top plate and the legs filled with sand soaked in oil. Ancient stock gift from a neighbour who found the stuff buried in his backyard. ![]() The stand is made of RHS 5" x 2.5" x 1/4". There is an anvil weight calculator to convert from hundredweight to kg or pounds in Anvilfire website, but not sure if it may be considered competing website. this photos are from when I built the stand for my work anvil.
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