[modeleng] Re: Scraping
- From: john.burridge@xxxxxxxxxx
- To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 22:36:50 +0100 (CET)
Alan and all Hi,
I have also been lucky to be taught by both the 'Old Engineers' and the mod=
ern pratices that are used in todays industies.
Have served my apprentership at Land Rover around the seventeen factories w=
hich used to feed Solihull plant for building the complete vehicles, At the=
time of my training in the late 1970's and now working for a Motor racing =
team for seventeen years with the latest technology and inovations which i =
now have at my disposall.
Things that were taught in my youth by my father who had been a designer fo=
r Napier in Acton held me in good steed for old and new processes which the=
younger Apprentices of today(if there are any coming through in industry)a=
re unable to pickup if the people whio are training them are too young them=
selves.
A link that i found on the Yahoo Groups pages which maybe of help to other =
who might need or want to do some scraping is=20
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mlathemods/files/Alignment/
yours for now John Burridge=20
> Message Received: Jan 02 2006, 08:41 PM
> From: "Alan Stepney" <alesara2@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc:=20
> Subject: [modeleng] Re: Scraping
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> As for chisels, I was at one guys house one evening as
> he started on the frames of a 5=C2=94 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.
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> No. Totally wrong.
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> 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.
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> Amazing.!
> After that, he spent the rest of the evening teaching
> me to use a chisel.
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> 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.
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> It is such a shame that we have lost so much of our
> engineering heritage that todays youngsters don=C2=92t have
> the same opportunity of meeting those craftsmen who
> =C2=93served their time=C2=94.
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> On the other hand, as from last Thursday I can draw my
> pension.
> Whilst my age means I met these guys, I=C2=92m not sure
> that is any compensation for youth!
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> Alan
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