Easy Metal Casting - Making Pewter Soft Jaws for my bench vise

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10 ай бұрын

I needed a set of soft jaws for my Polish made bench vise. So I thought it would be a good opportunity to try making some out of pewter. Pewter is a very easy metal to work with as it is soft and has a very low melting point.
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@prismaticc_abyss 10 ай бұрын

Now make some out of tungsten for maximum damage while gripping stuff

@simonfox_8559 10 ай бұрын

with extra sharpened teeth.... i think tungsten has a really high melting point tho lol

@motormemoirs8831 10 ай бұрын

Tungsten is brittle? 😂

@UniverseUA 10 ай бұрын

@@simonfox_8559yep, the highest of all metals

@Subimaru 9 ай бұрын

@@simonfox_8559 going to make this man get diamond tooling just to machine those xD

@vortecmacs 9 ай бұрын

😂

@simonfox_8559 10 ай бұрын

Great video. However, it is probably pretty important to mention that older pewter often contains lead. If you are going to work with leaded pewter, then it is important to take the appropriate precautions, especially around the dust and small chips, and anything that may come into contact with food.

@karl_alan 10 ай бұрын

That file in the clamp trick for making the faces parallel is brilliant.

@Serbianguy432 10 ай бұрын

Great job showing how someone can make a pair of soft jaws for a home workshop vise without having to resort to specialty tools. As usual, keep up the good work!

@kayleas5328 10 ай бұрын

Those Jaws look amazing

@PJZ 10 ай бұрын

Beautiful work!

@Sheighton13 10 ай бұрын

Great job. Thanks for making it simple. Very useful!

@sheep1ewe 10 ай бұрын

Honestly the best use i ever seen for that type of candle holders...

@thunderbasilisk1352 10 ай бұрын

Awesome video. Pewters fun to work with.

@HWMDesigns 8 ай бұрын

Neat soft jaw build. Having a set of soft jaws is essential for any metal shop.

@erchamojosue8530 10 ай бұрын

I did the same thing only with a piece of a maple tree, cheap enough to remake anytime and strong for the use I give to it.

@homemadetools 9 ай бұрын

Good project. We shared this video on our homemade tools forum this week 😎

@brianmoore1164 10 ай бұрын

Great video! I like the pewter idea.

@slomkaadas9603 10 ай бұрын

Very useful, thx for upload. Cheers from Poland 🍻

@MASI_forging 10 ай бұрын

Great work as always 👍👍

@garychaiken808 9 ай бұрын

Good job 😊

@DolezalPetr 10 ай бұрын

Great idea!

@pimpompoom93726 10 ай бұрын

Very nice. I think if you cast the copper grips in bronze, you'd have less porosity in them but equal grip affinity.

@Nobe_Oddy 9 ай бұрын

this was a REALLY COOL project! it's helpful, simple, and VERY EASY for a beginner to get done. Finding the pewter is probably the hardest part, but just like you said: YARD SALES!!! lol :)

@richj5735 10 ай бұрын

Great video! Love how you did it as simple as possible, I bet it was tough not using your mill to flat them off! 😁

@RamsesTheFourth 4 ай бұрын

I think that couple aluminium sheets bent to the shape to cover the jaws is enough to work just fine. We used to have those in my old job.

@MikeOrkid 10 ай бұрын

Good stuff. I think you should do a set of delrin jaws next.

@demersus 10 ай бұрын

Just for a laugh I'd love to see some of these made out of bismuth

@carrestore 10 ай бұрын

good job

@antonsemenyura5337 10 ай бұрын

Awesome video and thanks for educating us about this metal! Although facing with mill both sides would make perfect flats on both sides of soft jaws and it wouldn't take long too!

@hayleyxyz 10 ай бұрын

Yeah I was surprised he didn't mill the faces to make them true

@gavingilchrist9346 8 ай бұрын

I think the whole point of the video was to show how a beginner without all the fancy tools like a milling machine could make some jaws. He could’ve milled them at the end to make his own jaws perfect, but he probably wanted to show that the jaws can work perfectly fine without needing to make them perfect.

@natr0n 10 ай бұрын

very nice

@pierrer.m1802 10 ай бұрын

Very cool as always. Did the piece of aluminum at the end leave any marks on the jaws?

@gawni1612 8 ай бұрын

"I want to make something more accessible" *proceeds to do the whole project with a full-sized table saw*

@curtism7203 10 ай бұрын

I 3d print mine out of TPU and have embedded magnets so they stay on nicely. they're the best and I would much perfer tpu over soft metal.

@hunterrobinson3243 10 ай бұрын

nice

@carbonstar9091 10 ай бұрын

Looks good. Sure those will make that vise more useful.

@borysfurdas3425 8 ай бұрын

Do any solid details leave marks on Jaws? Is file needed after every usage?

@andymarshall3326 10 ай бұрын

Be careful if you work with silver. When pewter interacts with silver, the silver develops pitting as a result.

@noneyabidness9644 10 ай бұрын

Maybe make a few sets of pewter jaws, since it is such a soft metal and deforms easily. It's also very cheap, so a few sets aren't gonna crunch your wallet.

@NathanNostaw 10 ай бұрын

I open use copper or aluminium, but never considered pewter. I'll keep an eye out for oppshop cheap stock. Did you consider going with soft jaw as slip on rather than bolt on? Seems to limit the vice to just one application now.

@gaffyh1745 10 ай бұрын

Do some 3d printed ones with textured diamond grips. Curious to see how well the pewter would mold to it

@josefmildner7665 10 ай бұрын

Excellent video as always! Could you give some updates on how other things you have made for your shop have been lasting?

@danielbreig9298 9 ай бұрын

What is the white powder that you sprinkle on before the petra bond sand??

@DanelonNicolas 10 ай бұрын

it's was awesome! would love to see more video "without fancy tools" 😅

@dingythedingster 10 ай бұрын

make a pure silver cup next

@andrewsale6289 10 ай бұрын

Q.. How thin can you cast a piece of bronze... is there a point where molten alloy will not fill up entire mold due to constriction...??

@J4M35UK1 10 ай бұрын

Can you make some depleted uranium jaws?

@johnostler5458 10 ай бұрын

Very cool. Just curious why you didn't just mill the pewter jaws parallel?

@autumn5592 10 ай бұрын

The point of the video was to be accessible to basically everyone. Not everyone has a milling machine, so milling them flat would be unrealistic.

@Grael_bbx 10 ай бұрын

Do you take on projects? I have no experience or equipment and would really like this 3D print I have cast into bronze. If not can you please help me find someone that would?

@BoatNectar 10 ай бұрын

Supposed to use leather mate

@DannyBeans 10 ай бұрын

Everybody says not to scribe with calipers. Everybody does anyway. I think it's just a mantra at this point.

@FlyXenonRC 10 ай бұрын

Cool video. I made some aluminum ones for my vice. Perhaps you could have faced the jaws in the mill and skipped the filing step. I’m sure these jaws will work great

@dickard8275 10 ай бұрын

The point was to do it with common tools

@FlyXenonRC 10 ай бұрын

@@dickard8275 yeah but the mill was used to drill the holes

@autumn5592 10 ай бұрын

@@FlyXenonRCTo take the place of a drill press... or a hand drill. Not exactly difficult to drill a square hole.

@dickard8275 10 ай бұрын

@@FlyXenonRC Knew someone would say this… he literally said any old drill will work while using the mill for this reason 🤦🏼‍♂️

@Etrehumain123 10 ай бұрын

I made jaws out of thick felt and a strip of magnet

@haitianrefugee8454 10 ай бұрын

Is lead poisoning an issue filing pewter like that? I know it's possible to be poisoned by lead drinking out of pewter mugs/cups.

@AxcelleratorT 10 ай бұрын

The big issue with lead is that you just really don't want it inside you. So, if you are generating lead dust from filing, or lead fumes from melting, then yes, you want to make sure the fumes and dust stay outside your body. That can mean proper ventilation, appropriate dust mask, hand washing etc. Also you can go with "lead free" pewter. That can still have other hazardous heavy metals in it though like antimony. And, at the end of the day, I don't think any lead free pewter is truly lead free.

@PackthatcameBack 10 ай бұрын

So you have a mill, but you didn't use it to flatten them out?

@DigiLab360 10 ай бұрын

Surprised you didn't mill the faces flat. You have the tools.

@yutub561 10 ай бұрын

Why didnt you just mill the faces flat after machining the counterbore

@jonbruford7950 17 күн бұрын

silly question... but you have a mill, why not use that to square up the parts?

@nerddub 10 ай бұрын

any reason why you didn't machine the faces flat with the mill you drilled the holes with?

@insertphrasehere15 10 ай бұрын

The idea was to show a method for someone with few tools. You could drill them by hand, but a mill is a very specialised piece.

@nerddub 10 ай бұрын

@@insertphrasehere15 would have been a solid argument if he hadn’t used the mill to also drill the holes, the video was on metal casting, fairly specialized. With all of that, it makes way more sense to machine the faces then to use all that specialized tooling then to just do a mediocre job filing the faces.

@insertphrasehere15 10 ай бұрын

@@nerddub my point is that drilling is obviously not necessary to do on a mill. A drill press or a hand drill can make those holes and everybody knows that. Showing how to do the faces flat by hand is essential for the hobbyist without those tools. The fact that he used the mill to drill is like “you can drill this a million different ways, I just used this way”. You can’t say the same about milling the faces flat. Imagine: “here in this beginner friendly video I’m now going recommend that you use your three axis CNC to machine the pieces to shape.”

@insertphrasehere15 10 ай бұрын

@@nerddub the metal casting isn’t specialised. This is pewter, you can melt it in a soup can on the stove. You can cast it in anything, even silicone or beach sand. Hell I’m surprised he bothered sand casting. You could just make the wood box the size of the casting that you want and just cast directly in the wood (that’s what I’d do for a rectangular casting in pewter).

@asvarien 9 ай бұрын

You have a mill! Why didn't you clean them up with that?

@flubby18 10 ай бұрын

L shaped wood trim pieces cut to fit. (mic drop)

@GOVAUS1 4 ай бұрын

thankfully, that file had its faces parallel.

@jsweizston5410 8 ай бұрын

I do not think they'll hold up, should've made some out of some 3D printed rubber with some magnetic inserts. That seems to have the best results with what I use at work at at least.

@feelinghealing3890 10 ай бұрын

I could not do machining, I would be too tempted to collect ALL the filings and scrap and melt it together into a gigaingot.

@IWillAssassinateSundarPichai 10 ай бұрын

"I'll be making these using tools that most people have" Dude.

@raulkaap 10 ай бұрын

Make the jaw bolts from pewter too. I dare you!

@Drahcar 10 ай бұрын

Would you consider using excess PLA to cast something? I have been trying to find a use for my left over PLA supports/failed prints.

@TheForeverRanger 9 ай бұрын

I know some people dissolve it in acetone and use it as glue for 3D prints.

@whoaboutofcup 10 ай бұрын

Сделай фрактальные тески.

@jonanderson5137 10 ай бұрын

I made soft jaws from aluminum square stock that I had excess of after a project. Later I made some from HDPE scrap too. I think the fastest way is to use jaw covers.

@flyingmaniac3827 10 ай бұрын

used a mill to drill hols but a file to square and clean faces,go figure out the new generation,so strange.

@karl_alan 10 ай бұрын

Would the maple work as a set of jaws itself without doing the casting part?

@littlehills739 10 ай бұрын

v2 ideas harden steel jaws with cast ter ble holes to infill and re fill with lead ect allso i emailed u a 3d stl file to challenge you skills with core making in casting, no response from you

@asvarien 9 ай бұрын

Your calipers, you do what you want with them. If you want to engrave iridium plates with them, that's your business.

@reverendtfg6802 10 ай бұрын

"I'll be making these using tools that most people have." *ya know.... like a table saw and a milling machine* 😆😆😆

@larrybud 10 ай бұрын

might as well just make the jaws out of wood! But I love the channel nonetheless.

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@DeepMoondark 10 ай бұрын

i love your work, but i really hate when people says things like "with tools most people have" and the first tool is an industrial one......

@karl_alan 10 ай бұрын

What tool was that one?

@DeepMoondark 10 ай бұрын

@@karl_alan i think is called circular saw table, sorry english it's not my first languaje. appears at 0:49

@14tauscher 10 ай бұрын

@@DeepMoondark if you have a workshop without a table saw you just have a big toolbox and a room.

@RamoArt 10 ай бұрын

@@14tauschernewsflash, "most people" don't have a workshop.

@14tauscher 10 ай бұрын

@@RamoArt yep, but most people who make stuff do. Lots of people live in apartments and can't do anything involving tools, but for those with the space, ability, and free time to work on these sorts of things, "most people" could fit a cheap saw in their workspace. It's a problem of how he was speaking in a makers sense and not a viewers sense.

@TheBird.. 10 ай бұрын

You could make the ultimate soft jaws with indium, fun fact: it’s intert enough and pliable enough to chew like gum

@swimcube4680 10 ай бұрын

You may want to caution people about melting and filing pewter. Some pewter contains lead, so you might want to buy a lead testing kit.

@stevejones9062 9 ай бұрын

good video but still way over thinking it

@Boosted98gsx 10 ай бұрын

has mill, resorts to filing things "flat"

@karl_alan 10 ай бұрын

But he started the video saying he was trying to make this one accessible & show how to do it with simple tools for people that don't have the expensive equipment

@Boosted98gsx 10 ай бұрын

@@karl_alan he still used a mill!

@autumn5592 10 ай бұрын

@@Boosted98gsxAs a stand in for a drill press.... because he doesn't have one..

@karl_alan 10 ай бұрын

@@Boosted98gsx true, at which point he said he could have used a hand drill instead.

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