[TheForge] Effective filing WAS: Re: [kl] Re: Sen

[Jerry Frost]

This is a good write up.

I learned to draw file in metal shop I in jr. high school. Our first 
projects were a 12" ruler, a 6" square (framing type), sharpening gage and a 
2oz.(?) cross pien rivet hammer, all hand sawn, filed, chisel marked and 
number stamped. The only power tool we were alowed to use was the drill 
press to pilot the handle eye in the rivet hammer. We hand filed the eye to 
proper shape.

It took us weeks but "most" of us got the knack. It was also as quiet as I 
ever heard a metal shop. <grin>

In heavy metal shop in high school the instructor showed us how to make and 
use scrapers but we didn't really do anything with them. It was an 
industrial occupational class and hand scraping was pretty rare by then.

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
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Meadow Lakes, AK.