[modeleng] Re: Scraping
- From: Alan Stepney <alesara2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 20:41:11 +0000 (GMT)
I have been very fortunate in that in my early days,
I met many elderly(?) retired engineers who were
willing to teach a spotty (and probably tiresome)
youth some of what they had spent many years learning.
Hence I was shown how to scrape surfaces, use a file,
including draw filing, and many other techniques that
used to be a normal part of an engineers day.
As for chisels, I was at one guys house one evening as
he started on the frames of a 5? locomotive.
As is quite common, the width of frame steel he needed
was non-standard and so he was cutting them from the
next-larger size.
Now, my way, and I thought about the only way, was to
turn a hacksaw blade round 90 Deg in the frame and
spend an evening cutting them down.
No. Totally wrong.
He carefully marked them out, and lightly dot punched
every couple of inches. He then grabbed a large cold
chisel, and a hammer of the size that Thor must use.
Within ten minutes they were close to size, and after
another ten minutes spent filing, there was a pair of
frames, neatly cut to the line, and with half the dot
marks showing.
Amazing.!
After that, he spent the rest of the evening teaching
me to use a chisel.
If I had learned 10% of what these guys showed me I
would be far more able than I am, but even so, I still
learned a lot and to them I will be for ever grateful.
It is such a shame that we have lost so much of our
engineering heritage that todays youngsters don?t have
the same opportunity of meeting those craftsmen who
?served their time?.
On the other hand, as from last Thursday I can draw my
pension.
Whilst my age means I met these guys, I?m not sure
that is any compensation for youth!
Alan
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