Adjustable Slip-On Vise Pads

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These are smooth, slip-on vise pads that easily slide on and off in OpenSCAD. If you don't want jaw marks left on your work piece, these pads will shield it from damage. They fit snugly around the entire jaw of your vise so they won't fall off during use. To adjust these pads for your bench vise's jaw dimensions, change viseX, viseY, and viseZ parameters (please refer to diagrams above). Increase your measurements by 1% to account for ABS shrinkage. The thickness of the top, bottom, sides, and face are adjustable in millimeters. Printer Settings Printer: no-name i3 clone Rafts: No Supports: No Notes: To reduce warping, I recommend using a 10mm brim and setting "overhang" in the openSCAD script to your minimum value. These pads perform well under compression. If you intend to use high pressure on your vise while using these pads, print at 30% infill, 1.6mm walls, and 1.6mm top/bottom thickness – I'll be surprised if they crack by hand. In the script, increase your vise dimensions by a percentage to account for shrinkage. I recommend adding 1% to your jaw dimensions when printing with ABS. Using 1%, I can easily slip these pads on and off by hand without any slop. Note: To see the difference overhang has on warping, refer to post-printing instructions on http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1933068. Post-Printing Cracking: Sometimes you will get cracking above the face of the pad where the print goes from a solid face to hollow. The cracking occurs after cooling is finished. I recommend completely separating the crack and then gluing the two pieces together again (as shown in the pictures above). So far, my printing experience shows that hot-melt glue works best for gluing ABS back together again. The pads are still strong under compression. I designed these vise pads using OpenSCAD. You may or may not have tried it before, but it's easy to adjust these pads for your printer by inputting a few parameters into the top of the script.