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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bridgeport Knee Mill Conversion?
« on: August 17, 2016, 06:45:48 PM »
I use soft jaws all the time, the Gerrardi vice I have has holes in the top that you can bolt on soft jaws, quite expensive to buy them but I made 3 sets up.
I do prop shafts for boats on occasions and they have to stick out the hatch I cut in the Chirons enclosure, because the key is on the taper I need to tilt the shaft and because of that it won't fit out the hatch because of the vice height being too low, so I just welded a couple of blocks to the top of the soft jaws , problem solved
Another great thing about soft jaws is if you have to quickly grip a round bar for a quick job it is simple to just clamp something in the jaws which is maybe 10mm smaller than the dia and 10mm shorter than the jaw height, fire up the circle wizard and cut a circle 5mm or so deep the same dia of the part. Remove the bit you clamped and then when you close the jaws on the part it is spot on and you already have the center, so no need for even using the Haimer
Hood
I do prop shafts for boats on occasions and they have to stick out the hatch I cut in the Chirons enclosure, because the key is on the taper I need to tilt the shaft and because of that it won't fit out the hatch because of the vice height being too low, so I just welded a couple of blocks to the top of the soft jaws , problem solved
Another great thing about soft jaws is if you have to quickly grip a round bar for a quick job it is simple to just clamp something in the jaws which is maybe 10mm smaller than the dia and 10mm shorter than the jaw height, fire up the circle wizard and cut a circle 5mm or so deep the same dia of the part. Remove the bit you clamped and then when you close the jaws on the part it is spot on and you already have the center, so no need for even using the Haimer
Hood