"Karl Townsend" wrote in message
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Assuming you were successful in making new jaws, you'd be in them so
damned
much time and money a new chuck would look like a bargain.

Yes, it can be done, but should it be done?


FWIW, I made soft jaws for two of my chucks. Using a CNC mill its not a
bad
job. Measure three spots on each side of one tooth, fit a circle to the
points, then write a program to cut one tooth, index, and do it again. The
program runs forever, but do something else in the meantime. My time must
not be worth as much as Harold's, I thought it was a nice little project.

Karl

Chuckle!

My time isn't worth much these days, Karl, considering I'm retired, but I
can see all to clearly how difficult it would be to make jaws for a chuck
without a CNC. As DoN suggests, it makes a huge difference. By the time
you've made all the individual cuts manually, you'd have so much time in the
jaws that a new chuck would look like a bargain, even if you figured your
time at 10¢/ hour.

Do you have any pics of your soft jaws you'd like to share with us?

Harold