by Phil Kerner | Mar 22, 2014 | Benchwork, Inspection, Members Only: The Tool Room, Set-Ups, Shortcuts and Time Savers
Back in my apprenticeship days, I fell in love with all of the cool stuff that we got to use every day: dial indicators, grinding vises, gauge blocks, v-blocks, wheel dressers and micrometers. As the years go by, I'm a little bit surprised by how many tools I not only...
by Phil Kerner | Jan 5, 2014 | Inspection, Members Only: The Tool Room, Milling
During my apprenticeship at Anson Tools & Gages here in Erie, one of the areas that I had to spend a good part of my apprenticeship in was the Hydro-Tel department. FIrst, they'd teach you how to rough out pockets and square up blocks on the old hydraulic machine,...
by Phil Kerner | Jan 5, 2014 | Inspection, Members Only: The Tool Room, Milling
This is one of those videos that I discovered in my video recorder this weekend...thought you might enjoy watching me work Notice the clamp that's holding my surface gauge in place, it comes in handy sometimes.
by Phil Kerner | Jan 5, 2014 | Inspection, Members Only: The Tool Room
Every few months or so, I get these parts that - aside from being flat - have no straight sides on them for inspection. Here's how I use my grinding vise and a 1-2-3 block to git-er-done.
by Phil Kerner | Dec 1, 2013 | Inspection, Members Only: The Tool Room, Set-Ups
If you've watched my video on how I check squareness, then you already know how I do it by comparing all (6) sides with each other using the large radius that I've built into my surface gauge. But...what do you do when you can't "compare" the sides of a block with...
by Phil Kerner | Dec 1, 2013 | Inspection, Members Only: The Tool Room
I got an email a few days ago from a member who wanted to know what the "pins" on my Starrett surface gauge are used for. Mystery solved.
