Capri Tools vise = laughable bullshit

  Let me tell you something; I am approaching sixty, I've been a home improvement nut, a machinist, an engineer, I've been using vises since I was ten, and never, NOT ONCE, have I ever seen a vise from which the handle could be removed without a very concerted effort and possibly an act of Congress.

 EDIT: I am informed by my wife that her father's vise had handles with removable nuts on the end - they unscrewed.

 I for one cannot imagine why I would ever want to replace a vise handle. 

EDIT 2: the locking pin is an unwanted "feature" which no one - NOT ONE SINGLE USER - ever asked for; if you are used to using the swivel-head feature, that locking pin is constantly in the way, and they didn't provide a way to disable or lock it out.  So if I were to keep this vise and fix the handle issue on my own, as one reader suggested, I would need to take the whole thing apart to remove the pin.

 So, how many thousands of pounds of force do you suppose were required to remove the handle while it was en route from the factory - where I presume it still had the handle, if in fact they check for that sort of thing - and my front door?

 Who would even WANT a vise, that the end caps of the handle come off, even with a serious pounding?  Jesus wept.

 I thought I had found The One, I really did, but it was just another cheap disappointment.

 I'm gonna give all my shit to a school for wayward girls and become a hermit in a fuckin' cave, I give up.

 Fuck a bunch of Capri Tools, they should be called "Crapi Tools".

 Fortunately, I bought this joke through Amazon, so right back to Amazon it goes.  Unbelievable.

 They sent me a replacement handle.  It is different from the other handles on the vise, in that it is completely unfinished (mill scale!) and it has cheap little plastic bumper caps which are to be forced over grooved bosses on the ends of the handle.  I'm fairly certain this is not the correct handle for this vise.  I would like very much to send it flying through Crapi Tools office windows, walls, and/or roof.