Decent vernier height gauges ?

[JoParticipant @jo]

One of the other electronic apprentices in my year used a mill on his "C" blocks. He got his ear bent and had to do E blocks instead by hand, whilst we continued with the original C blocks.

Being forced to learn how to file was one of the best things I was ever taught, that and the use of a cold chisel .

Jo

[Bill PudneyParticipant @billpudney37759]

Posted by Jo on 18/11/2013 14:52:18:

One of the other electronic apprentices in my year used a mill on his "C" blocks. He got his ear bent and had to do E blocks instead by hand, whilst we continued with the original C blocks.

Being forced to learn how to file was one of the best things I was ever taught, that and the use of a cold chisel .

Jo

Well spotted Jo, during my apprenticeship I had the task of removing about 3,000,000 little al. alloy cleats each held on with 2 x 1/8" rivets. I was making a little jig so I could carefully drill out the rivets, when an old hand said, "oi, nipper. This is how you do it" he got a fairly small but very sharp cold chisel, a one pound hammer, and carefully lined everything up by eye, whack, rivet cut off as clean as a whistle, no damage to anything. I would still be there if I had used my little drill jig! I've still got the chisel too!

cheers

bill

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