morning everybody Randy Richard in the shop today lathe
Chuck soft jaws there you go copper these are silver plated busbar or
old copper flashing busbar takes about ten minutes and you got yourself some
soft jaws so it's a quick video and they come out really nice we're going to make
some soft jaws this is up this is something pretty easy to do now this
here and put this way this is a strip it's a about one inch wide and it's
about sixteenth of an inch thick this is an old flexible bus bar that came from a
control panel now it's copper its silver coated actually it's right now it's got
this plastic insulating tape on it which I'm going to have to get off but anyway
so I've cut a four inch strip okay inch and 3/4 in I left a half-inch in the
middle so I can just line it up in the jaw a little more light so this is a
piece of inch and a half aluminum that's off just around anything will work slip
it in there align it with now I'm lining it square
with the the front of the jaw and I put in the center between those two marks so
it's roughly in the middle a lot of eyeball work here tighten it up
yeah just kind of bend it too soft you know deadblow hammer here and I'm just
going to take a piece of tool steel here and just kind of give it a couple smacks
down in there and then bend it right up over the edge of the jaw and on the
other side I'm going to take a sharpie and Mark it down right next to the face
of the jaw and line at the bottom where it's going to get folded over so I'm
going to make a cut and then this little tab will fold over fold over and then
we'll trim them and that'll hold it onto the onto the jaw you'll see here as we
go
so I'm going to make seed my marks so I'm gonna make a cut down
and a cut-down
again now line up that cut with the edge of the face because we're going to fold
these in it's going to line up your cut tighten up the jaw again knock these
over which that's the idea there we go I'm going to trim those off a little bit
they're little on the long side so we don't hit
and we're going to squeeze them together today we're going to roll that in there
so just take your pair of pliers anything will work channel locks work
and works just roll them just kind of squeeze it and roll it in there and
basically you're done there you go you can clean up the corners a file clean
them up and there's your cell jaws but easily adjustable
they pop right off see that
so they come right off and they're ready to go just find yourself some copper
scavenge scavenge scavenge here's the soft jaws I'll cleaned up took a couple
days of soak and an adhesive remover to get that tape off it's pretty tough
stuff but these are like I said being all they're silver-plated copper so
we're going to slip on there see how they look when they're just kind of nice
yeah nice and snug II a little bit perfect fit really there this one's a
little loose right just pinches but
five-minute soft jaws see how they look there get focused
I was a little loose but most are tight little tension to be good
hey guys thanks a lot
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