Some improvements to the shop

[steven c newman]

Like replacing the old Craftsman 6" grinder with a better one...
Shop Improvements, main grinder installed.JPG
While trying to "fish" bolts through....found a small nail....under the plank...with the back of my hand...
Shop Improvements, knicked knuckle.JPG
OUCH! Then removed the old Monarch vise...it was back behind the sanding center, where I could not access it...so...
Shop Improvements, vise base.JPG
Bolt it down to a new base....base can be clamped in the bench's vise..
Shop Improvements, Base details, vise.JPG
5/4 Ash batten,,,3 screws to attach it to the base of 3/4" plywood....3 bolts to attach the vise to the base..
Shop Improvements, vise completed.JPG
Need to place this on a shelf, and out of the way...Vise?
Shop Improvements, Model numbers.JPG
Monarch No. 215....has a 10 45 number stamped in the side...
Next, made a base for the old grinder, now New Buffer..
Shop Improvements, Buffer Base details.JPG
There IS a power strip behind the bench ( mainly for lights and the bandsaw)
Shop Improvements, new buffer 2.JPG
Just need a spot on a shelf to stash this on, as well....

Note: wife's dad inherited the vise from his uncle....then I wound up with it....still work away like new...Thinking that 10 45 MIGHT be a casting date?

[Stew Denton]

Hi Steven,

Good improvements. I especially like the vise, it looks like a major beast......good vise. For what it's worth, I think it looks like it could have been made back in 45.

I have two vises, both fairly inexpensive, a big one and a 3", and both are on wooden plates so I could C-clamp them onto wooden planks on sawhorses, etc. I put my first vise on a wooden plate about 40 years ago, it was scrap wood, but that was about all I had at the time. I used it for a long time before giving to a son in law when I got my second vise, the big one. I don't yet have a real bench, but have planned to add vertical plates to them for a long time when I get a real bench, virtually exactly what you have done.

After using my big vise for a few years, having given my small one away, I realized that that small vise was sure handy because it was infinitely handier to move around from the garage and into the back yard than the big (and heavy) vise. Much of what I do does not require a big vise.

Thus I bought another small vise to replace the first one....it turned out to be a good move, and although also inexpensive, it has proven to be not too bad (a used EBAY craftsman made by Columbian.) (Not remotely as good as the Wilton Bullet Vise I use at work, but you could probably buy 6 to 8 vises like mine for what one equivalent size bullet vise costs.)

At any rate you set yours up very similarly to how I want to eventually set mine up....GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE I guess!

Stew

[Mark Rainey]

When was your last tetanus shot Steve?

[Stew Denton]

Mark,

Good point.

Stew

[steven c newman]

2 yrs ago.

[Tony Zaffuto]

1945 ain't that long ago, is it?

[steven c newman]

Hmmm, about 8 yrs BEFORE I was born.....Although, FIL WAS a flight instructor for B-17 bomber crews back then...

[Tony Zaffuto]

Hmmm, about 8 yrs BEFORE I was born.....Although, FIL WAS a flight instructor for B-17 bomber crews back then...

A youngster! About seven years before I was born.

[Stew Denton]

You are both youngsters, it was 6 years before I was born.

Stew