Making And Using Soft Jaws

摘要

Probably the main reason why soft jaws for a three jaw chuck are rarely seen in magazine articles is that they do not come as standard with a chuck as purchased, or supplied with a new lathe. Limited understanding of their use, and/or a desire to keep costs down, invariably results in the chuck being obtained without this useful accessory. Also, suppliers do not list soft jaws for many of the chucks they supply and in many cases those on offer are for the more costly ones, as a result, being another deterrent from purchasing them for some.rnIn their absence, when a task arises that would benefit from their use, other methods are found resulting in an ongoing delay in them being obtained. Eventually, especially after some considerable time, there will be some concern that the jaws being offered in the catalogue will not fit the aged chuck possessed. Making one's own, whilst not impossible, is a time consuming project but if you like a challenge, or have an aged chuck of unknown make, then I will give my method of producing these in the second part of this article.