by Phil Kerner | Jul 7, 2024 | Free Stuff, Inspection
Greetings from Erie, Pennsylvania. I'm embarrassed to admit it, but it looks like it's been over three years since I've posted on here. First of all, thanks so much for following me. Between Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and this site, I have almost 40,000 followers....
by Phil Kerner | Aug 8, 2015 | Inspection, Members Only: The Tool Room, The Basics - Measuring, Locating, and Checking Your Work
Here you go: another expensive but incredibly useful tool for checking squareness:
by Phil Kerner | Jul 20, 2015 | Inspection, Members Only: The Tool Room, The Basics - Measuring, Locating, and Checking Your Work
As you can imagine, as a moldmaker I had to square up a TON of steel in my career. One of the basics that was drilled into me as an apprentice was the importance of flat, parallel and square. Because if your material isn't flat, parallel and square, good luck trying...
by Phil Kerner | May 17, 2015 | Inspection, Members Only: The Tool Room, The Basics - Measuring, Locating, and Checking Your Work
Just the other day, I had to machine a small hole in a part with a +/- .004 dimension. Now in most cases, a drill should be able to do the trick PROVIDED that its been sharpened correctly and is running true. BUT you never know...every once in a great while, I get...
by Phil Kerner | May 9, 2015 | Inspection, Members Only: The Tool Room, The Basics - Measuring, Locating, and Checking Your Work
Funny...all those years as a moldmaker and now at this stage of my career I have access to a full inspection / QC department. One day I was watching one of the guys checking a batch of parts and he showed me this nice little trick for measuring the distance between...
