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The despicable behavior of GrahamJTaylor49 putting blue on a vice handle is not to be encouraged! far better in my opinion is what we used to do as apprentices was to coat the telephone earpiece therefore is was not apparent and with luck claimed more than one victim sadly with modern phones...

Forgot to add to turn O/D clamp your bored shims on a bolt with appropriately sized support washers either side and finish turn again light cuts, if your support washers are bigger than finished O/D all the better as you will only produce a light burr maybe none.

Use of wood is tried and tested and works great I would only add to make it hard wood and screw together as close to the material as tight as possible and use light cuts if more than one is needed do it as a stack, if you have to drill go one lower and then finish drill. If you use glue etc...

I agree with your comment but! how many of us have to ease fettle etc to get something to run correctly even a tool room which would have high end machines could get a job back from the end user not to remake just to make things easier, in other words to fit it that's it from me as I think we...

As an engineer of 40 plus years I feel the topic could be misleading to novices! Most drawings used in industry show tolerances to allow for inaccuracies in the process, to strive for absolute accuracy is needless unless the components eventual use demands such, we are in the position where...

In 1968 I started my engineering apprenticeship with the Lucas group (UK) the first day was induction the second a trip to the safety exhibition in London which is permanent and run by ROSPA the exhibits were actual reconstructions of accidents with photos taken at the time including cine...