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?

Thanks,

Kevin Gallimore

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Check out page 1143 www.mscdirect.com
Ball knob - threaded.

Martin
Martin Eastburn
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NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder
IHMSA and NRA Metallic Silhouette maker & member


axolotl wrote:
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?

Thanks,

Kevin Gallimore

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"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

Martin H. Eastburn wrote:
Check out page 1143 www.mscdirect.com
....

Go to the "Browse" page to enter the catalog page number.

You can make up two ends from oversize round stock drilled through. Weld
them to the ends of your screw taking care to avoid burn marks or damage to
your machined surfaces.
The first end can be chucked by itself and machined and filed to shape. The
other end has to be welded with the screw attached. Oil the screw/handle
location and chuck the handle with the screw laying against the ways.
Carefully machine the second end and file to shape.
If you don't like the idea of welding then you can machine the ends of
the handle and the knobs with a countersink. Rivet/peen the end into the
countersink and machine clean. You can move a massive amount of material
into the countersink if you are patient with the ball end of your hammer.
Done right you cannot see a line after machining.
Randy

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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?

Thanks,

Kevin Gallimore

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I've seen small vises with the center bar threaded on both ends, then
larger rod segements tapped axially about half-way through for that
thread and screwed on. The rod segments are usually about as long as
they are wide, they don't look too bad. Bevel the ends slightly to
remove sharp edges. Larger vises sometimes have leather washers at
the handle ends, keeps the noise down when the bar slides through.
I've used rubber o-rings for the same purpose on the smaller vises, you
can also slide them along to keep the bar centered, if desired. For
cheap and cheesy, you could use a long bolt and turn the hex head down
to a cylinder.

Stan

On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 22:02:33 -0400, axolotl
wrote:

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?

The bar handle on the bench vise in my shop has cylindrical ends,
somewhat shorter than their diameter, bored to fit over the turned
down ends of the bar which have then been peened to retain the
cylinder. By countersinking one end of the cylinder, the peened bar
can then be filed flush.
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada

Robin S. wrote:
"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

Hi Robin,
thats a nice piece of work. Hope I can eventually do as well.

Andrew VK3BFA.

"Andrew VK3BFA" wrote in message
oups.com...

Hi Robin,
thats a nice piece of work. Hope I can eventually do as well.

Thank you. The finish was achieved with a file (if you can't make it right,
make it bright!) The slot in which the moving jaw rides in the vice body was
milled to better than .001" so it actually slides very nicely. At shop rate
that vice is worth more than $3000.

Regards,

Robin

You can do cylinders or barrels - beer ones - end wise or in a T :-) wood grain optional.
You could 'blue' them brown and the handle blue.

Martin [ causing trouble again ]
Martin Eastburn
@ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net
NRA LOH & Endowment Member
NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder
IHMSA and NRA Metallic Silhouette maker & member


axolotl wrote:
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?

Thanks,

Kevin Gallimore

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Heat and upset the bar stock to produce a thick end and then dress to
shape.