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| vtsteam:
Scraped in one direction: |
| vtsteam:
Scraped back 90 degrees, before stoning off the burrs: |
| vtsteam:
After quite a few more passes, progress. Most of the edge is getting blued. Only the far right is a bit shallow, and likely the next pass will show blue there,too: |
| S. Heslop:
Hope I didn't miss something, but how are you measuring the taper? And how are you keeping it square to the top surface? |
| vtsteam:
I measured the width of the way piece in this case, since the other edge is the reference and I want them to be parallel. As far as keeping it square, I did that by hand and eye. Of course there's a bit of a hedge in doing this. I removed a total of .004" in all of that scraping. The liklihood that I would be off by that much -- the max possible -- all to one side of a .375" width is nil. Oh, also, the edge picked awhile back for the reference edge was the edge which, by measurement, was the most out of true. That one was trued up first, and then the others measured from that. |
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