Re: I "SNAG"ed A Couple Tool Boxes Yesterday

"Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:v54iph$3a24m$1@dont-email.me...
On 6/21/2024 11:57 AM, Jim Wilkins wrote:
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A pipe vise is awesome for holding, but he wants to create zero cosmetic
damage.  Pipe jaws in a bench vise, or the chain style pipe vise will
both dig in.  I'm not even sure I'd risk prismatic aluminum soft jaws
for the zero chance of cosmetic damage he is going for.  I'd go straight
to the leather surfaced plywood vise jaw liners.
Bob La Londe
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You made me look through my library. In a Ruger SA shop manual that I hadn't even unwrapped Jerry Kuhnhausen suggests barrel vise inserts cast to fit from Brownells Steel Bed compound, with powdered rosin (for baseball pitchers) to increase grip. Optionally the barrel can be padded with paper shims, also sprinkled with rosin.
The barrel vise shown is a hydraulic jack within a large U bolt frame, pressing on a 3" x 3" x 3" split block with a hole for the barrel-specific insert sleeve, also 3" long to spread the pressure and not deform the barrel.
The barrel should turn 30 to 45 degrees after contact.
He suggests Delrin frame wrench inserts in a Maryland Gun Works revolver frame wrench from Brownells. He does NOT recommend an axe handle through the frame, as old timers used to do with the Colt SAA.
The manual does not appear to assume you have a machine shop. He mentions that now you can buy the tools that older gunsmiths / machinists had to make themselves. I found more useful info in older books that assume you need to make, harden and temper springs etc.