[TheForge] File Handles

[Jerry Frost]

An old trick is to use a chisel to cut a couple barbs on the file's tang so 
the handle will stay on.

Plastic handles at Grizzly are 5 for $3.95 right now. No old tricks 
necessary. <grin>

Thanks Larry

Frosty
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From: "Larry Zoeller" <zman59 at earthlink.net>


> To All,
> I have been using wooden file handles for a long time and have never been
> happy with them.  You drive the handle on to far and you split the wood or
> if you put any pressure on the file and it falls out of the handle. I have
> made some out of aluminum round stock that worked fairly well. I have seen
> people use old corn cobs and golf balls for handles   Then a while back I
> got the new 2006  Grizzly catalog and saw were they were selling plastic
> file handles with rubber grips on them.  Well I order them and have been
> using them for a while and am happy to say that they are a great
> improvement over the old wooden ones.  There are two different sizes and
> they are less than a dollar a piece.  They are on page 401 of there 2006
> catalog or you can see them on there web site grizzly.com, there catalog
> numbers are H3089 and H3090.  I just thought I would pass the information
> along, because I am sure that you have experienced the same problems that 
> I
> have with the old handles.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Larry Zoeller
> 4312 Lahnna Dr.
> Louisville, KY 40216
> zman59 at earthlink.net
> http://www.geocities.com/zoellerforge/
>