easton2
Plastic
- Joined
- Feb 21, 2005
- Location
- Long Beach, California
I currently have a 6-Jaw Buck Chuck and I am looking for a source for soft jaws for it. Anyone have any suggestions ?
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Lathe Chuck Soft Jaws
- Thread starter easton2
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metlmunchr
Diamond
- Joined
- Jul 25, 2004
- Location
- Asheville NC USA
Try US Shop Tools. As good a selection of softjaws as anyone in the business, with good quality, price, and delivery. Also, if you have a mill, its real simple to make your own standard tongue and groove type softjaws.
TheMetalDoctor
Titanium
- Joined
- Oct 26, 2001
If you have a CNC mill, make'em yourself is the way to go. Measure up your hard jaws and make a drawing. Once you have a program they can be made in minutes. During the past 30 years I have made them all myself and you can make specials if you have the blanks on the shelf.
TMD
TMD
Forrest Addy
Diamond
- Joined
- Dec 20, 2000
- Location
- Bremerton WA USA
Criminy, make 'em. Chop up some 1 x 2 flatbar (alum or steel) into jaw lengths and go to town on a turret mill. In an hour or two you'll have your jaws. Make about 5 sets at a time. They're consumable tooling; you use them and bore them out to use them again until there's nothing left.
ottoluck
Cast Iron
- Joined
- Mar 5, 2005
- Location
- Central WI - ~USA~
The more set's you make or buy up front the better!. It will save you time and save boring out a set made up for a small diameter when you need a large diameter job done. It's like having a set of something, more efficient. Most the time I can use an existing set of soft jaws and don't need to spend any time altering an existing set!. Do learn the proper way to set up a spider and bore out the soft jaws a couple thou's smaller than the part you need to chuck, in this case, bigger is not better!.
Ferrous Antiquos
Titanium
- Joined
- Mar 23, 2004
- Location
- Lawn Guylin, Noo Yawk
Mud
Diamond
- Joined
- May 20, 2002
- Location
- South Central PA
Does the chuck have 2-piece jaws? If it does not, then the manufacturer is likely the only source.
