Speed handle for 5" mill vises?

Looks good Ken,
I had some time today, so I set up to run 2 of these at once from 1 piece of stock, they came out pretty good about 6" long, 5/8" thick with .635 hex for 5/8".
If anyone would like either of them I'll post em up in the trade forum. Trade for tools, stock, aluminium or steel, endmills or whatever you got I'll consider.


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Making your own speed wrench is a great practice exercise. Here are some pictures of one I made for my Kurt 6" vise. I made it out of a spare 3/4" deep well 6 point socket laying around my shop, welded to some shaped scrap metal. It has a swivel handle with a plastic bushing and it works great. Not particularly pretty, but I was more interested in trying to learn how to cut tapers and make a swivel handle. The entire project took a lazy afternoon piddling in my shop.2015Nov-01.JPG 2015Nov-02.JPG 2015Nov-03.JPG 2015Nov-04.JPG

Regards,
Terry
 
Ive made a small batch in sizes commonly found on vises, other than 3/4.

14mm, 9/16, 5/8 and 17mm. On average, ive sold about 1 per week on ebay. Oddly, the 14mm seems to be the most popular.
 
My favorite vise handle is a cutoff wrench of the appropriate size with a large ball bearing welded to the end. Mine is about 1 1/4" dia that I bought off ebay. You can spin it with your finger and has great leverage to tighten. Saw it first on oxtoolco's your tube channel.

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