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I'm Justin and today we're making an
extra hand vise stand.
Sometimes it's better to bring the vise
to the work rather than the work
to the vise. These are very handy for
doing production work where you've got
lots of small parts. Whether you're
sanding or painting them,
and you don't want to move the entire
set of parts, you just want to bring the
vise to those parts. As you can see this
project is made from an old wheel
and
various scrap metal drops from old projects.
Here I'm marking the locations where I
need to grind the extra paint
and mill scale off of this piece of metal.
I've got to get just enough of that off
so I can do a clean weld.
Now i'm marking for the post location.
It's an inch and a half by inch and a
half piece of steel.
I'm just getting some rough locations so
when I go to weld
it'll be easier to align.
I think I cut this post to make the top
of vise finish out at
36 inches. I did this to match my other
extra hand vise stand.
I wanted the mount plate on the stand to
match the shape of the base plate of the vise.
I traced it out in a location that would
work for the extra holes that were in
the scrap plate and I removed the bottom
and I'm going to use it as a stencil
to guide my oxy acetylene torch.
I used this very strong rare earth
magnet to connect the two.
In the end this was a bad idea, I ruined
the magnet.
The heat takes the magnetism away.
But it worked for the cut and I managed
to get the job done, less one magnet.
I don't think i've used an acetylene
torch for at least 10 years, so I haven't
had much practice.
I used to get a part like this to just
drop out right after the cut. I had to
beat on this one a little bit.
Looks like the edge needs a little bit
of help.
Not the cleanest cut in the world.
Using a flat disc I cleaned up the edge
and it made quick work of it.
After the edges were clean I used this
self-centering transfer punch
and transferred the marks.
I drilled the holes a little oversized
for the bolts that I'm planning on using.
That makes just a little easier to line
up with the holes in the vise.
The drill press left just a little bit
of a burr so I cleaned
it up with a countersink.
Now for the welding, I haven't been
welding for a little while so
this was a good chance to get some
practice.
I went all the way around the post.
That's not necessary for this stand.
it's way stronger 
than it needs to be. But why not get
some extra practice.
Okay, that's it for the top portion of
the post. Let's get the base put together
and attach the post.
I didn't show it on camera but I spent a
little bit of time aligning this post to
where it was plumb to the base
and then I finished my welds.
Just a little bit of cleanup with a wire
brush so I can get this thing painted.
I'm not using any special paint for this
it's a great primer.
It's going to be inside most of the
time so that's probably going to be the
only thing I put on it.
It's easy to cover up any scuffs or
marks later just hit it with primer
again.
The base of the vise was a little rusty
so I decided to grind the surface a
little bit and add some grease
Okay, I'm almost done I've just got to put
this base back on,
find some bolts, and fasten it to the
stand.
And there it is, a very simple extra hand
vise stand.
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