[TheForge] Jet tailstock disassembly?

[wmullett at bright.net]

We used to use BonAmi when we seated valves with a hand-cranked valve setting tool.  << No youngster either.

---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 09:41:42 -0800
>From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net (on behalf of Jerry Frost <akfrosty at mtaonline.net>)
>Subject: Re: [TheForge] Jet tailstock disassembly?  
>To: mspencer at tallships.ca,Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
>
>On 7/1/2013 11:03 PM, Mike Spencer wrote:
>> Frosty wrote:
>>
>>> Lapping compound, that's the stuff Mike! I knew it had a name but
>>> when I looked for it it was gone, just not there. Stupid TREE!
>>> <sigh>
>> Not to make light of yer lumps from the tree, but I'm catching up with
>> you  without any arborial assistance.
>>
>> Confession: I couldn't remember "whatchacallit compound" either but
>> but there's this nice Linux/Unix thing called grep. Grepped through my
>> archive of eveything I've emailed since 2000 for "compound", found
>> "lapping compound" in a post I made in 2003.
>>
>> My memory gets less and less like an erudite librarian and more and
>> more like a cardboard box full of scribbled paper scraps.  Routinely
>> putting stuff I'm likely to forget into text files on my computer
>> automates (to some extent) groveling through the box, helps me fake
>> it.
>>
>> - Mike
>>
>In some ways that tree is a blessing, I have the best excuse I know of 
>but I operated for all my life on a random access system. I'm just aware 
>of it every day now. <sigh> I'm sure we've all gone to a room and 
>wondered why weare there, you k now you wanted to do/get/? something but 
>it's gone, just gone. Heck, sometimes I can't remember why I stood up. 
>Oh well, getting older is better than the alternative.
>
>Don't sweat making light of my tree experience it makes me feel better. 
>Grant Sarver RIP started a roast on me and really healed me, if folk are 
>joking you know down deep you're okay or aren't going downhill. Jokes 
>and humor are my strongest armor.
>Jer
>
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