Thread: Bowl jaw extensions

G'day
I decided to make a set of bowl jaw extensions to hold my eccentric bowls while cleaning up the foot.
I purchased 8 bolts 50mm long to fit my Vicmarc cole jaws from an engineering supply shop. These bolts are called "capscrew socket head M6"and cost just over a dollar each.I purchased a pack of 10 door bump stops from Bunnies ,$9.
I turned up bits of wood 45mm longX 31mm diam. to fit inside these and bored a 6mm hole through each and a recess for the socket head to fit into.Before parting the last one off,I pushed each stopper on and used a skew to cut the stoppers a bit shorter than the inserts. I also used a forstner bit to bore a hole in the top of the stopper to enable access to the bolt.
Coincidently,this months American Woodturner has a similar design but useing plastic wine bottle stoppers. It might be more fun providing these than buying door stops from Bunnies.
Ted