"Silvan" wrote in message
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Dan wrote:

friend gave that I was able to break loose with liquid wrench. He told
me he got it from his uncle who'd been using it since the fifties, and
he believes it was old then.

Wow... I like old stuff.

Haven't looked at it for a few weeks and I can't leave work right now to
go check it so I might be remembering a few things wrong. Maybe I can
take a few pictures this weekend to see if it might look like yours.
From your description, mine is definitely smaller. :-)

Not necessary. I can tell you for sure that mine isn't the quick slide
type
you describe.

In any event, after electrolyzing away most of the rust, then stewing in
Liquid Wrench overnight, then heating it and beating the crap out of it, I
finally got it to move.

I had to whack on it with a big ball pein hammer for a very long time to
get
it to do anything, and now it has lots of dents on the pipe, but it's
moving by hand.

It's not very smooth, but it's free enough that I think I can get it into
service from here. Maybe. I'll see how it goes after I get it mounted,
which is a pretty non-trivial undertaking in of itself. I'll have to
reconfigure my poorly-designed workbench.

At least I finally got it to move after two years of fooling with it.


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Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan
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I've got the 200A which is the quick slide release type. It has a nice
wooden handle on it. Mine just needs a little clean up. Looks and adjusts
pretty nice.