Axminster Soft Jaws?

[Bill21]

Anyone tried making these to directly fit an Axminster SK100? They seem to be a handy thing to have but the Axminster ones are nearly £27 and you can get the material (Nylon) on eBay for half that price.

I’m just wondering if anyone has a drawing of the required groove diameter and bolt spacing to save me sitting down and working it out! 

[Valkrider]

The sizes are all on Thingiverse.com for printing them on a 3D printer.

[Bill21]

Thanks for that, I’ll see if I can find it.

[Valkrider]

Here you go Bill https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4109059

[Bill21]

Thanks, I found it earlier. It only really gives bolt centres so I measured my Chuck and the figures don’t exactly tally with that drawing. With my C jaws set at 70mm OD as suggested by Axminster I can say that the register on the Chuck is appropriately 66mm OD and 60mm ID. The register is actually very slightly under 3mm wide and the corresponding recess on the accessory jaws seems slightly over 3mm. The bolt centres appear to be 19mm. I’m going to make some pins to fit the holes in the accessory jaws to measure the distance to the register as the jaws proper move about a bit too much to take an accurate measurement. Absolute accuracy isn’t needed but I may as well get it as accurate as I can.

[turningal]

Anyone tried making these to directly fit an Axminster SK100? They seem to be a handy thing to have but the Axminster ones are nearly £27 and you can get the material (Nylon) on eBay for half that price.

I’m just wondering if anyone has a drawing of the required groove diameter and bolt spacing to save me sitting down and working it out! 

Have you considered mounting the nylon on wood plates that axminster sell to make custom built wooden jaws? Once you have the wood plated you can fashion all kinds of wooden/nylon jaws?

[Paul Hannaby]

I bought some lengths of cylindrical plastic to make sets of soft jaws. It worked out to less than a fiver per set.

[Bill21]

Have you considered mounting the nylon on wood plates that axminster sell to make custom built wooden jaws? Once you have the wood plated you can fashion all kinds of wooden/nylon jaws?

Yes I did consider that but for small stuff it seems easier to use soft jaws. I just don’t like Axminster’s pricing! 

[Dancie]

You now have to spend at least £45 at Axminster to get free postage, last year it was £30 . . . . .  50% difference

[Bill21]

I don’t object to paying postage on small orders as long as it’s reasonable. Some places I’d like to have bought stuff from in the past want £8.95 postage or more and I won’t pay that.

[Martin Lawrence]

  I made myself a few sets of these, I bought a Nylon chopping board and made them from that, they worked fine.

  Cheers Martin.

[Bill21]

It’s interesting that the Axminster soft jaws are £26.68. The Record Power ones are only £18.99. I’m thinking it may pay to buy a RP SC3 at some point in the future if I see one on special offer.

Edit: I’ve just seen the Nova ones (in a lovely shade of Red  ) for only £15.25. This is all making the Axminster ones look rather expensive!

[jay]

  I don't know if this is of use but I make custom router bases for myself by photo copying the base of the router then sticking the copy onto plexi glass That gets all the bolt centres accurate

[Paul Hannaby]

I was looking for something completely different in my workshop and what did I find - a set of Axminster soft jaws! I have no idea when I bought them but it must have been a long time ago!