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| Joules:
I suppose a list of tools and bits so far is in order. Auto centre punch Digital caliper Engineers pocket data book De burring tool Multimeter (on it's way, I had forgotten his electrical part) my old Roland MDX-3 and Pix 3 scanner, they are a bit oddball, but he can make things in wax and balsa as soon as we get him started with CAD here. Large wooden tool chest. Safety glasses Some other bits on the way, but I don't know what they are. Lads, I'm quite humbled by the generosity I am receiving. Please accept my thanks to you all. |
| Lew_Merrick_PE:
Joules, (A) I am "across the pond." And, (B) I "support" quite a few "newbies" out of my own "collection." [Excuses, excuses, excuses!] One of the things that I do (having started with my daughters and their boyfriends) is run 2-3 "kids"/decade through the "old exercises" such as: making a 1.000 inch cube with hacksaw, file, square, and micrometer (usually out of scrap HRS bits); filing a piece of CRS round bar into a .750 hex with file, protractor, and micrometer; making the mating "slip fit" .750 hex hole in a piece of HRS plate; and the like. Such "old exercises" certainly develop not only hand-eye coordination, but an appreciation for "modern tools" that is often "missing" in today's trades. I kid you not, I teach about a dozen "machinists" about Tooling Balls pretty much every year. [That was something I learned about month 6 of my apprenticeship.] |
| Joules:
Thanks Lew, I can only lead by example and filing a cube is not something I can do these days or times past :palm: I am pretty much self taught as my apprenticeship was in electrical engineering. The metal and machine side grew out of hobby so I hope to make things together. In fact files are what I am lacking here, even for myself a very modest collection of modern examples :( |
| John Stevenson:
One 30 Kg box of files will be winging it's way in a couple of weeks. You can fight over who's having what. Wondered who I could palm these off onto :scratch: |
| Joules:
Oh, guess who will be making a filed cube then..... Cheers John |
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