[modeleng] Re: Adept/Super Adept lathes
- From: Allen Messer <al_messer@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 11:53:40 -0800 (PST)
Hubert, I wonder how many can accurately chip with a
Cold Chisel or a Capeing Chisel these days? I know
that I cannot--not what I would call accurately, and
filing? Have you tried to find a decent file in the
stores lately---that a working man can afford?
Al Messer
--- shep <shep.28@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ONE of the early mantras of my youth went thus:
> 'Never stand if you can
> sit - Never file if you can chip!
>
> Cheers! from Hubert, who is rather surprised to be
> around in 2006!
>
> Greetings from dark, cold and wet St Albans.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Allen Messer" <al_messer@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 6:10 PM
> Subject: [modeleng] Re: Adept/Super Adept lathes
>
>
> > IF time travel was possible, and IF some of
> today's
> > machinists could be dropped into a machine shop of
> > 1906, how many of them would survive until Lunch
> time
> > without being fired for incompetence, due to their
> > lack of knowledge/skill of "Bench work", such as
> > chipping and filing, and/or making the tools
> needed to
> > do the job?
> >
> > Al Messer
> >
> >
>
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