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The one on the left is pure filth.

Which is YOUR fave bit on this vid?

clearly a numpty as wd 40 is not a releasing agent, should be using plus gas or heat.

I liked his mechanical solution to taking it to bits. I'd not call somebody who does that good a restoration job a numpty. 

I find it impossible to choose, I just like the whole process of him taking something which another person might have thrown away and giving it another lease of life, and the obvious skill and care involved in him restoring it too. He does a brilliant job.

you are probably right. I would be more impressed if it was Kirky doing it, I think the only time he’s got his hands dirty was when he fell over.

Brilliant video - I am really envious of the equipment he has at his disposal. I also like the way he makes tools to do certain jobs of working on the vice, I inherited some of my Dad's tools and there were lots that he made for specific jobs he had to do at work. He worked on Lancasters then Vulcans for Avros at Woodford.

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Mesmerising vid, I was riveted! (Yes, I know ...)

Not often that YouTube will allow people to upload films of themselves at their favourite vice.

Not sure why he did all the finishing of the contact surfaces and then blasted the rest, the sensible option I would think would be to do the opposite, blasting with a finer grit to remove the rust but not damage the contact surfaces.

He covered the contact surfaces to protect them during blasting, he used sticky aluminium stuff which looks like smooth metal (which it is I suppose) once stuck down. 

When everything was hyper-clean from the blaster he put his greasy, bare fingers over it all! 

I just thought he could have saved himself the effort of masking everything up before blasting if he'd done the finishing work after blasting it.

They've got new ones of those in ToolShed...

....and the whole result was ruined.

Well, it'll probably have to be redone in another hundred years or so! He could have avoided faffing around with the degreaser if he'd put primer on it straight away. Many years ago, when I was rebuilding a Triumph GT6, I got my wrist slapped by a professional sandblaster for the same cardinal sin!

If I was a professional sandblaster I'd have said the same thing I'm sure.