Nice moxon on the cheap- using dumbell handles

[Mike Wilkins]

You must be the same guy who posted this idea in one of the woodworking magazines. Now you got me looking around the local Habitat resale stores for something similar.

[Robin Dobbie]

Now you got me looking around the local Habitat resale stores for something similar.

$6 each at walmart, looks like.

[Dennis McCullen]

Thanks Mike. I may have seen the idea in a woodworking mag but also found a guy who had used parts of a 3-pc barbell. The idea was the same - Nice large knobs already made spin freely (quickly) for opening and closing on the 1 inch shaft. I decided that the 4-inch thread would be enough to give me a vise opening of 2+ in. And Robin, I did order the pair of dumbbell handles from Wally World for $15 after realizing that I wanted to go ahead with the project rather than hunt for the dumbbell handles. I do enjoy the hunt and very often get lucky at a thrift store when ideas have been relegated to the back burner. BTW, this was engineered on the fly and one could possibly increase the opening capacity to 3 inches by leaving more of the handle without threads exposed out front since the 2-inch thick movable jaw can ride on the unthreaded handle. It is only the knobs that need threads and not the movable jaw.