Dave Matticks ¨C I was not able to find a left hand wing nut.? I used Fusion 360 to do the drawings.? Instead I purchased a hand full of right hand wing nuts from McMaster-Karr in the next smaller size.? Then just drilled it out and re-threaded in left hand 3/8¡±.? The body and jaws are 1018 steel.? I have done some case hardening of small gun parts.? Don¡¯t know whether to case harden just the jaw faces or the whole thing?? It is just a hand vise after all.? May just use some Brownell¡¯s and try the jaws first to see how I like it.? Heat jaw face to cherry red, dip in the case hardening, re-heat to cherry red for a couple of minutes, quench in oil, clean up¡¡¡¡? See what happens.
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Bruce Varner
