"axolotl" wrote in message
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I'm making a handle for my 3" milling vise. For simplicity, it will
probably be a sliding bar handle type. Has anyone come up with something
spiffy to make the sliding bar ends? Making spheres and tapping them seems
to be customary. Anyone have something different?

We had to turn a shaft for the handle, and two knobs for our vises in
school. The shaft had reduced ends and the knobs had countersunk holes. The
shaft ends were peened into the countersunk holes to retain the knobs. See:

http://www.metalworking.com/dropbox/smallvise.jpg

Regards,

Robin