A place where restoration project-type threads can go to avoid falling off the main page in the WIX hangar. Feel free to start threads on Restoration projects and/or warbird maintenance here. Named in memoriam for Gary Austin, a good friend of the site and known as RetroAviation here. He will be sorely missed.
Fri Sep 24, 2010 3:10 pm

Yes, I need a longer bench..
ok, only two actually live on that bench...

The rest live in a corner...well.. not all of "the rest" .. as there are 5 others not pictured...
Fri Sep 24, 2010 3:42 pm
Bigger bench or bigger shop??
Fri Sep 24, 2010 4:56 pm
It's not a problem, it's just a..... VICE!!!!!
I'll get my coat.
Cking
Fri Sep 24, 2010 6:05 pm
Every man has his VICES... Beats collecting troll dolls...
Sat Sep 25, 2010 12:26 pm
Sat Sep 25, 2010 2:52 pm
"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues"
Abraham Lincoln
Rgds Cking
P.S. Google "qoutes about vices" There's quite a few!! Pity you don't live in Miami
P.P.S. Of all the tools I have (and I have quite a few) I don't posses a good bench vice
Sun Sep 26, 2010 5:59 pm
nice score. Maybe Kelly Johnson himself used it. my "vice" is buying radials. I have the same vice in my shop.
Sun Sep 26, 2010 9:32 pm
Nice collection, and much better than the Chinese pressed graham cracker vises that Horrible Freight sells.
I do see the crux of your real problem, I can actually see parts of your bench which means you don't have nearly enough 'objects of interest or functionality'.
Sun Sep 26, 2010 10:47 pm
The Inspector wrote:I do see the crux of your real problem, I can actually see parts of your bench which means you don't have nearly enough 'objects of interest or functionality'.
There's another 20ft of bench around the corner that you can't see...
Mon Sep 27, 2010 2:08 pm
I think you are misguided in your hobby. You should try a hobby that requires the use of explosives:
http://www.coolestone.com/media/895/Anvils_Away/
Mon Sep 27, 2010 8:48 pm
I used to have a pyro licence... I could clear a room at a party by merely throwing an innocent cigarette packet on the table from across the room & shutting the door with me on the other side of it... people would pile out of windows...
Then after a few parties people would be at ease again & ignore the cig packets...
Wed Sep 29, 2010 5:07 pm
Fin...

Wed Sep 29, 2010 5:26 pm
Looks like you had some left over ALLISON block paint-or DDA paint *
*Detroit Diesel/ALLISON
Sat Oct 02, 2010 12:53 pm
Guess I just found out why finding a good used anvil for a decent price is so hard.....GEEZ! Now I am wondering where all my vices have snuck off to....
Sat Oct 02, 2010 6:27 pm
My neighbor is feeding my habit. Got another former Skunkworks Morgan vise today...

& he has 2 other former Skunkworks Athols for sale:
The twin of my green 614 1/2:

& a 624 with swivel base:

oh, & a REALLY BIG Reed:
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