Soft Rubber Jaws for Panavise

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The Panavise is an indispensable tool for any electronics lab, right alongside a scope, power supply, soldering iron and tweezers. After 30 years of use, I found that soft rubber jaws would make it more useful for my purposes than the hard ones it comes with. The soft jaws allow clamping directly over components that would be damaged by hard jaws, and holding two objects of differing thicknesses at the same time is possible, which isn't feasible with hard jaws. They're also slightly "grippier" when holding onto a narrow edge of a PCB, fine wire, etc. Printed with Form Futura Flex EcoPLA rubber-like material, see the Instructions tab for details. The instructions are as follows: Form Futura Flex EcoPLA is a rubber-like material that's pretty easy to print with. Even with limited control over printing parameters on the Up/Afinia printer, good results can be achieved if you have a temperature-lowering mod installed. I printed these at 210C. You must use slow head speed, selecting "Fine" mode on the Up printer. I used 0.3mm layer height, 3-layer surfaces, and second-loosest fill setting. If you set support angle to 30 degrees, no support will be generated if printed in shown orientation. The hardness of final part can be varied via fill and surface layer parameters. It works with or without raft; raft removal is not difficult. Material adheres well to glue stick or hairspray. It doesn't warp during printing, but these parts bowed after cooling.