If you would go for most durable paint what would you use then? I too like the Hammerite paint for it's looks. But sometimes I feel it's not really tough enough.

So many people recommend "Citristrip" and I do not know why??? It really sucks!!! It does not work well at all!!! I had to redo a vise like 20 coats of it just to get a good amount of the paint off and it was extremely time consuming! I would have been better off using an angle grinder and one of those paint stripping pads or a wire wheel.

Oh God you used my favorite color 🙏🙏🙏

It's people :D

Thank you!

Thank you!

What paint did you use?

Nie wiesz czy jest jakis polski kanał o podobnej tematyce?

FPiU BISON-BIAL FPiU = Fabryka Przyrządów i Uchwytów = Devices and Chucks Factory

I have the same vise, it could be recast... The problem is that you need a local foundry that will be willing to make 1 off castings like this, as you are unlikely to get any manufacturer to replicate this design... A great design, but one strongly on the wrong side of the cost cutting scale for the modern industry... Mine has a broken dovetail bit on the gib side, and i will need to braze a huge glob of bronze there before milling it out again to restore the geometry, but once that is done, i may just go to my local foundry as i know they do 1 offs and just bring them the ready made mould of the moving jaw body, as to have a new part cast so i can machine it to oem... I dislike any welded or brazed repairs of what was once whole... Its either whole or its broken... But yeah... It can be done, but it would be costly somewhat... I could, like this guy could, have a series of these recast at the friendly foundry, then the castings could be machined(really easy work) and we could sell those... Likely with better than oem work, as cast iron can be had better today than before, and machining is done with better tooling and accessories... But how would you price such a vise? If it aint pumped out a 100 a minute at minimum, with how much shit costs, these would not be cheap... Just the metal for it and the casting service would likely be a few hundred euros for the raw casting... Then you have secondary work of machining in another shop, which is also a few hunnit bucks... All the shit in between those two and prior and after either of those two services also would add up... Then you have shipping of such a slab(not really that heavy, but they do have around 35kg from what i remember since last lifting mine up) and all the associated bullshit with imports, regulations, cock sucking and being robbed by your own country and so on... All that shit would add up to at least 1200$ per piece, and that still leaves me or this guy who went through all the shit needed to replicate them with almost 0 earnings, just covering the costs we would have and the enforced theft that you have to pay to even own something(shipping, taxes, import tariffs and so on)... The only ones who would ``earn`` something would be the foundry owner and the body which would tax your ass and the shipping company, which leaves the one who invested the effort into it with 0 rewards for so doing... You would be better off finding a dude with such a vise, asking nicely to come over and make your own casting mould thereof, taking that mould to the foundry and having the vise cast for yourself, and then having to machine it yourself, just to avoid paying around 2k$ that this whole project would likely cost all in as a product... 2k is a kurt vise for a mill, and while i know a kurt and this are different things for different work, a kurt will pay itself off quickly in a good setup, where this is a bench vise, and those dont pay themselves off directly, but rather in comfort and benefits they allow you the user of them, while doing the work to pay them off... Sorry for the long rant, but i just felt compelled to produce it... I would like seeing such great pieces made today, but if you cant do it yourself, the most likely source will be china, and then, those vices will be metallurgicaly - likely crap... Sure, they will be machined nicely, but the metal chemistry will likely be as clean as a public toilet... ``you look at ladies' johns - you could eat maple walnut ice cream from da toilets, eh, there's exceptions, but a man's? heh, piss all over da fuckin` floor, urinals jammed with cigarettes and mothball cakes... even if you keep your shoes tied and you're not draggin your laces through urine...`` that is pretty much the summation of chinese cast iron...

Thank you. The paint is Hammerite mid green. Honestly it’s not the greatest paint. It tends to chip easily but I just really like the color.

@@robinson-foundry I've seen Hammerite in European produced videos, but haven't seen it for sale in the US. That green is a great color.

Well, I just found Amazon is full of Hammerite for sale. Go figure.

Thanks! The soylent green is just simple green. Just a little joke not very many people get. Lol I should have mentioned that. Oh well also the paint stripper was just less effective and took multiple coats. Jasco is what I’m use to using and its much better, but much more toxic.

Thats why it works so well!

The Citristrip paint stripper wasn't very powerful and required multiple coats. Also it smelled like used urinal cakes.. Not pleasant. That's why I wouldn't recommend it. I prefer Jasco.

They were fairly hard. I used a carbide end mill to face them.

Bolts…for a vice made 60 years ago in Warsaw-Pact Poland. Good luck with those thread pitches and profiles.