If only it was that easy, but not in this case. It is bent out with a slight twist, bottom right corner hits first.Make wooden jaws with the opposite slant. Remember to leave some allowance for toe-in.
If only it was that easy, but not in this case. It is bent out with a slight twist, bottom right corner hits first.
If it was dropped and bent (big if...) then it is malleable cast iron and (could) be bent back, agreed it would be easy to break, but if you can measure the surface well and plot it, you could see pretty quickly if you were flattening it but putting light pressure on the bent part, and if not, revert to machining the face.Ah. In that case, as Hank says, sounds like it could have been dropped. Is it just a tiny corner that is bent in, and the rest of the jaw face is planar? Or is the whole face subtly twisted? If the former, you could just make some wooden jaws and relieve the bottom right corner a bit on the side that faces out, so that the bent part doesn't actually make contact with the wooden jaw. Or just take an angle grinder to it and grind it back to planar... I'd do that sooner than I'd bend cast iron on a press.
I didn't know that was what it was called, but I guess great minds think alike and even a blind squirrel will find a nut once in awhile......Dennis was describing what Roy Underhill called kerfing in. I think this was how some primitive boats were constructed.
Roy G