Holding pipe, tube, round bar, and cylindrical workpieces securely requires vice jaws shaped to the round profile — flat jaws contact a round workpiece on a single line and provide minimal grip. Prism (or vee) jaws replace the flat profile with two angled faces, engaging the workpiece on four contact lines and providing substantially better hold. The Sykes Pickavant 53331800 Prism/Vee Pipe Jaws are 180mm-wide insert jaws designed to fit the Sykes Pickavant 180mm vice.
The vee profile distributes gripping force across a larger contact area than flat jaws, allowing the workpiece to resist the torque applied during cutting, drilling, threading, and fitting operations. Without prism jaws, round work tends to rotate under any applied force, making accurate operations difficult and potentially hazardous.
The 180mm width matches the larger Sykes Pickavant 180mm vice format. Equivalent prism/vee jaws are available for the smaller 100mm vice (53331000) and 150mm vice (53331500), allowing workshops with mixed vice sizes to standardise on prism jaw protection across their bench equipment.
Within the wider Sykes Pickavant vice jaw insert range, prism/vee jaws complement flat-faced rubber-covered (53318000), fibre-covered (53321800), and polyurethane inserts that cover non-round workpieces. Workshops handling a mix of round and flat work benefit from holding both jaw types.
Sykes Pickavant has been supplying professional vice and bench equipment for decades, and the prism/vee pipe jaw range reflects the brand's modular approach to vice configuration for specific workpiece geometries.
Additional Information
- 180mm Prism / Vee Pipe Magnetic Jaws compatible with any 8" Vice including the Sykes-Pickavant Unbreakable Vice.Designed for multipurpose application, offering efficient clamping and protection of the workpiece at the same time. Designed for; horizontal clamping of flat objects, horizontal clamping of round objects and vertical clamping of round objects.For thread cutting it is recommended only to use one prism jaw to avoid destroying the jaw. The vee-groove will align the workpiece and the serrations of the opposite vice jaw will keep it from turning.
- Equipped with an extremely powerful magnetic strip which easily attaches the jaw to the vice and ensures a rapid setup.
- The magnetic strip is only magnetic against the vice jaws and will not attract debris or fillings to the clamping surface nor magnetize the clamped parts.
- Features an extremely powerful neodymium magnetic strip. Holding force for a 100mm jaw is 3.5kg equivalent to 34N, for instance.
- These Magnetic Jaws can also be used in combination with one another. For instance, for taper pins or thin walled tubes use the Neutral or Prism / Vee Pipe together with the Rubber option. For irregularly profiled parts with one flat surface use the Fibre covered on the flat surface and the rubber covered on the profiled side.
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