09-15-2013, 03:42 PM
(09-15-2013, 09:56 AM)Highpower Wrote: ...
What kind of jobs would you normally use the soft jaws for?
Willie,
They are good for working with thin pieces. An example is I needed a bronze thrust bearing for a project so bought one from McMaster. I needed it to be a certain thickness which was not available so I used a pot chuck to hold it in the lathe to face it off to the thickness I needed. Soft jaws on a 3-jaw chuck would do the same thing. I just didn't have one at the time so I made a pot chuck to hold the thrust bearing. That's just one example of what soft jaws can be used for. There are numerous uses for them that I'm sure some of the more experienced members can fill us in on.
Ed