Need some assistance repairing a Columbian bench vise

RustyRatRod said

Here is how it assembles. As you can see, they show the spring on the outside, but only to show assembly. We know it cannot go on the outside and it was not, so you will assemble in this manner, but with everything on "the other side" of the outside jaw.

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Thank you! I bow to your superior “Google-foo”, sir!

So it looks like only one of the grooves was used, and I guess if you think about it, perhaps they used that same spindle in different models.

I’ll clean-up the spindle tomorrow and get some dimensions on that groove in preparation for the hardware store visit.

Thanks again!