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Lathe Jaws

Alexander

Alexander

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@kylemp and I have been working on this project for some time now. The idea is to make soft jaws that will fit an 8 inch manual chuck. This has proven to be more difficult than it sounds. The main challenge is recreating the teeth that engage the scroll plate. I didn't realize the geometry is this complicated. We did make one jaw that works in my chuck. It turns out that my 8 inch GS 3 jaw and his 8 inch Bison 6 jaw take the same jaws.
 

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Looks very good.

I have to make outside jaws for one of my 8” chucks as well. It only came with one of them.

I am hoping to use the internal ones as a template in my Pantograph “copying mode” as internal ones should have the same tooth pattern as the outside ones.

I’ll post the results as I get the project done...
 
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