A few quick vise handle questions

[ThomasPowers]

I've had a number of vises where repeated dropping of the handle let the sphere on the end hammer out a sharp ridge on the screw end.  Well worth filing that down so if you get some skin caught it's a bruise instead of a divot!

[C-1ToolSteel]

I had had to take a post vise to the machinist to get a repair done, and one of the first things he said was "and whatever you do, don't let go of the handle when your finger is in the way!".

[natkova]

So i dont open new thread.
Wich steel is good for vice handle (my machinist vise) 

I used rebar it bend too much .

What is good so it wont bend, coil spring?

 

[Frosty]

I've never bent the handle on a bench vise! How tight are you trying to clamp stuff? Coil spring steel should be more than stiff enough, even normalized.

I suspect vise handles bend as a safety device so people don't break hard to replace parts of the vise by over tightening them. I could be wrong of course but I've watched too many guys put a cheater pipe of vise handles when just bouncing their body weight was tighter than necessary. 

Frosty The Lucky.

[ThomasPowers]

My old post vises had quite soft real wrought iron handles. My new ones seem to be mild steel.

Like Frosty, I think that the handle bending is a feature and not a bug---easy to straighten a handle; hard to replace a screwbox!

[natkova]

I lost original and I compensate with rebar it's realy thin rod for that vise like Les then 1 cm less then 1/2 inch

 

[ThomasPowers]

Try a normalized coil spring then.

[Frosty]

That'd be my choice too but a concrete form stake fits my large leg vise were I to replace it.

Frosty The Lucky.