Looking for valve handle

[bassinbuoy]

 

[MicEd69]

The splines on the valve shaft look pretty shallow, so the apparent use of pliers may have ruined it to the point a handle will not work. But you could measure the diameter of the shaft and count the splines to see if a local hardware store or plumbing supply house would have something that might fit.
Here's a handle from Amazon that has twelve splines, but it doesn't tell what the shaft diameter is.

 

[Twowaxhack]

The stem was probably square at one time but pliers have rounded it. It also looks to be a gate valve.

Replace the entire valve.

 

[bassinbuoy]

The splines on the valve shaft look pretty shallow, so the apparent use of pliers may have ruined it to the point a handle will not work. But you could measure the diameter of the shaft and count the splines to see if a local hardware store or plumbing supply house would have something that might fit.
Here's a handle from Amazon that has twelve splines, but it doesn't tell what the shaft diameter is.
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Thank you very much. My local searching has been in vain. No handles for splines exist. I assume it takes a nut as well?

 

[Rickyman]

Here's the handle for it

 

[bassinbuoy]

Here's the handle for it
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Just what i needed!!!

 

[MicEd69]

Thank you very much. My local searching has been in vain. No handles for splines exist. I assume it takes a nut as well?

Yes, it would take a nut, but that should be pretty easy to find on a valve that old. It would be a standard NC threaded nut.

But as I said, it may be too damaged for a valve handle to work on it anyway, so I like Rickyman's "handle".

 

[Twowaxhack]

Thank you very much. My local searching has been in vain. No handles for splines exist. I assume it takes a nut as well?

I’ve never seen a valve handle with splines that’s secured by a nut.

That leads me to believe the stem was square. It’s usually a very slight taper on 4 sides and the nut pushes the handle onto this taper to secure it. Yours appears to be rounded off. If you could remove the entire stem, you could use a file or grinder to put 4 flat sides with a slight taper and find a cast iron handle at just about any hardware store that would fit along with a nut.

But…..like I’ve said in an earlier post, it looks to be a gate valve and a lot of times if you close an old gate valve it either will not turn the water off or if it does operate when you turn the valve back on the stem will strip out of the gate and the valve will not open. I’d be prepared to replace that valve if I attempted to operate it.