Adjustable Slip-On Vise Pads

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These are smooth, slip-on vise pads that are easily adjustable in OpenSCAD. If you don't want jaw marks imprinted on your work piece, these pads will protect your work. These pads slip around the entire jaw of your vise so they don't easily fall off during use. To adjust these pads for your bench vise's jaw dimensions, change viseX, viseY, and viseZ parameters (please refer 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. Print 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 are very good under compression. If you intend to use very high pressure on your vise while using these pads, print at 30% infill, 1.6mm walls, and 1.6mm top/bottom thickness and I will be surprised if you can crack these pads by hand. In the script, you can 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 am able to slip these pads on and off by hand with no slop. Note: To see the difference overhang has on warping, see 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 will occur after cooling has finished. I recommend completely separating the crack and then gluing the two pieces together again (as shown in the pictures above). So far in my printing experience, hot-melt glue is the best for gluing ABS back together again. The pads are still very strong under compression. How I Designed This OpenSCAD I designed these using OpenSCAD. You may or may not have tried it before, but it is stupid-simple to adjust these pads for your printer (just input a few parameters into the top of the script).