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

[Mike Spencer]

Frosty quoth:

> 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.

I've had one little triangular scraper forever and it's proved handy
for various things around machinery.  But years ago I picked up a
couple of *sets* of scrapers in nice little mahogany boxes -- 4 sizes
of half-round, 1 triangular and one end-scraper.  Gave one set
to someone I knew would appreciate them.  Only ever used my set a few
times to tidy up bearings on hammers and gas engines.  Someday, though,
I might actually do a Babbitt pour.  Who knows?

Andy V. opined:

> 	Yes, aluminum is the worst in terms of loading, that is for sure.

Back when I was a complete novice, I bought something called a "body
file".  Flat, with curved teeth, very coarse, mounted on a plane-like
unit so that it cam be flat or, by working a turnbuckle, made slightly
convex or concave.  Real handy for aluminum and other soft metals.  I
dunno if they still make them or not.

I may have mentioned before that our local We Got Everything
industrial supply, Moir's, used to carry, as far as I could tell,
every file that Nicholson made.  New management was very proud that
they had got rid of all that old, slow-moving stock, selling all the
files to some guy (regrettably, not me) for $5000. After the new
management was done reorganizing, they were just another wide place in
the road.  A few years later they went bust.  F***ing morons.  Now it
turns out that, at several other supply shops in our biggest industrial
park, the guy (sometime gal) that knows the most about everything is
the one who used to work at Moir's.  "That's Alice, over there.  Ask
her.  She used to work at Moir's."

I hope that new manager that trashed Moir's is one of those people I
occasionally see bumming nickels, picking up cigarette butts.

Do I sound cranky?
- Mike

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