MWF FEED
14th January 2020, 02:51 AM
Hi Guys,
I cut up a piece of aluminium plate the other day and was left with a 72 mm long by 40 mm wide off cut of 10 mm thick plate. I don't like just throwing material in the scrap bin, so I looked around for a use for it. Then it occurred to me that I'm always putting soft jaw covers on the 3" Parmo vise ! Why not make a set of replacement jaws out of this piece of aluminium. Ok they would be about three or four mm short, but that wont make a lot of difference.
So I cut the piece in half length ways on the bandsaw, clamped them in the mill vise and cleaned the two pieces up. I used one of the existing vise jaws as a template, by gluing all three pieces together with superglue and drilling both pieces of aluminium together with a 5.5 mm drill. After cracking them apart, actually I just banged them down hard on the top of the vise, I countersunk all the holes on one side to suit the screws. After fitting them to the vise this is the result. They are a bit taller than the original hard jaws but no matter.
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Before and after. My new vise soft jaws. :U You can see one of the old bits of aluminium angle that I was using before at the very top of the last picture.
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I cut up a piece of aluminium plate the other day and was left with a 72 mm long by 40 mm wide off cut of 10 mm thick plate. I don't like just throwing material in the scrap bin, so I looked around for a use for it. Then it occurred to me that I'm always putting soft jaw covers on the 3" Parmo vise ! Why not make a set of replacement jaws out of this piece of aluminium. Ok they would be about three or four mm short, but that wont make a lot of difference.
So I cut the piece in half length ways on the bandsaw, clamped them in the mill vise and cleaned the two pieces up. I used one of the existing vise jaws as a template, by gluing all three pieces together with superglue and drilling both pieces of aluminium together with a 5.5 mm drill. After cracking them apart, actually I just banged them down hard on the top of the vise, I countersunk all the holes on one side to suit the screws. After fitting them to the vise this is the result. They are a bit taller than the original hard jaws but no matter.
13-01-2020=001.jpg (https://metalworkforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=384241&d=1578928750) 13-01-2020=002.jpg (https://metalworkforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=384240&d=1578928750) 13-01-2020=003.jpg (https://metalworkforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=384239&d=1578928750)
Before and after. My new vise soft jaws. :U You can see one of the old bits of aluminium angle that I was using before at the very top of the last picture.
Attached Images
https://metalworkforums.com/images/attach/jpg.gif 13-01-2020=001.jpg (https://metalworkforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=384241&d=1578928750) (155.8 KB)
https://metalworkforums.com/images/attach/jpg.gif 13-01-2020=002.jpg (https://metalworkforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=384240&d=1578928750) (146.1 KB)
https://metalworkforums.com/images/attach/jpg.gif 13-01-2020=003.jpg (https://metalworkforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=384239&d=1578928750) (246.9 KB)
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