Old German vise restoration.
When I found this vise on the flea market, I was pretty sure that it was Heuer vise - an excellent forged vise from Germany 30s.
I was a little embarrassed by their condition. The two halves of them did not look symmetrical and looked more like casting than forging. But the price was reasonable, and I bought them.

First, I've applied a paint stripper and scraped the old paint. It allowed me to unscrew the bolt and disassemble the vice. After disassembling, I have used the paint stripper once again and scraped it with a metal brush.

When the paint was gone, I saw the condition of the vice, and for the first time, doubts crept into my mind about their identity.

The condition of the vise was poor, it was clear that it was not a forged product but cast, and of poor quality casting, caverns and rust were everywhere.
I cleaned the place where the logo should have been with a wire brush, and the logo turned out to be not a German company Houer but some NKMZ logo. As I found out, this logo belongs to the Soviet now Ukrainian machine-building plant. As I found out, they made this vice in the 50s. Most likely, it was a copy from the German captured Hoer vise brought from Germany after the Second World War.

Anyway, I like this vise and will keep it with me.
After stripping the paint, I've scraped it with a wire brush and sandblasting. I have welded wholes and cast imperfections and ground them with a file and angle grinder. After that, I puttied and primed the vice and painted it. I've polished and burnished the handle and assembled it.

Restoration Timecodes:
00:11 Condition before restoration
00:51 Paint stripping
01:30 Paint clean off
02:25 Vise disassembling
03:25 More paint stripping
03:45 Handle disassembling
04:34 Wire grinding
04:54 Sandblasting
05:44 Cast imperfections
05:54 Grinding cast imperfections with file
07:04 Grinding with belt grinder
07:19 Grinding with angle grinder
07:39 Cleaning void cavities
08:19 Welding void cavities
08:39 Grinding welding seams
09:50 Making a plug for the hole
10:40 Welding the hole
11:15 Grinding the vise
11:45 Grinding the logo
12:10 Applying putty
12:30 Grind the putty
12:35 Masking with tape
12:45 Painting with primer
12:55 Painting
13:10 Grinding and polishing the handle
13:45 Burnishing the handle
14:24 Assembling all together

The restoration took me almost two weeks.

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