by Phil Kerner | Jan 14, 2016 | Benchwork, Fixtures, Members Only: The Tool Room
One of my main responsibilites at work is to just "fix" things when nobody else knows what to do. Case-in-point: here's a few hundred parts that have just one feature slightly out of tolerance. The slot in the above photo has a tolerance of .315 / .316" wide, and it...
by Phil Kerner | Jan 13, 2016 | Members Only: The Tool Room
There was a day when I thought that posting stuff on YouTube was the coolest thing ever. The reality is that I really thought and believed that most folks who loved the trade would see where I was coming from and appreciate what I was doing as in sharing information...
by Phil Kerner | Jan 8, 2016 | DRAWINGS / REFERENCE MATERIAL, Members Only: The Tool Room
This is it for now...my last drawing from the archives. This style used to be popular for grinding pins in mold and die shops and includes a round cut-out for the head of most pins to be accomodated for while grinding. The drawing includes several different clamps...
by Phil Kerner | Jan 8, 2016 | DRAWINGS / REFERENCE MATERIAL, Members Only: The Tool Room
This is another vintage drawing from the Erie County Technical School, vintage 1971. I never got around to building this one, but it looks like a lot of fun...in case you didn't know, this tool is for dressing precision angles on grinding wheels on a surface grinder....
by Phil Kerner | Jan 8, 2016 | DRAWINGS / REFERENCE MATERIAL, Members Only: The Tool Room
Here's another one from the archives: a sine plate drawn up by my old alma mater, the Erie County Technical School. I would have to assume that since it was in my "drawings" folder that this was drawn sometime in the 70's. Usually, sine plates like this one - being...
