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...
by Phil Kerner | Jan 6, 2016 | DRAWINGS / REFERENCE MATERIAL, Members Only: The Tool Room
Continuing on with the "build your own tools" series: Here's a drawing for a toolmaker's vise from 1960.This one happens to be from my apprenticeship at Anson Tools and Gages here in Erie, PA. Agian, the same rules apply: I've held this for 40 years, and at last I...
by Phil Kerner | Jan 6, 2016 | DRAWINGS / REFERENCE MATERIAL, Members Only: The Tool Room
Here's another project for yourself, your shop, or your students. This is the actual drawing of the v-block pictured above. It was drawn in 1969 in the title block says it was from the National Tool, DIe & Precision Machining Association. I believe that some time...
by Phil Kerner | Dec 30, 2015 | DRAWINGS / REFERENCE MATERIAL, Members Only: The Tool Room
One of the first things you used to build as an apprentice "back in the day" was a set of parallels for yourself. Remember, back in those days we couldn't buy cheap Chinese stuff so you ended up making a lot of stuff yourself. Building a set of parallels is a nice...
