by Phil Kerner | Apr 20, 2014 | Members Only: The Tool Room, The Basics - Measuring, Locating, and Checking Your Work
After my triumph in the grinding room this week, I decided to take my little grinding vise to work and recheck it on my surface plate that I use every day. I was pleased to see that it was even closer than when I checked it in the original video (#195). Here ya go:...
by Phil Kerner | Mar 20, 2013 | Members Only: The Tool Room, Shortcuts and Time Savers, The Basics - Measuring, Locating, and Checking Your Work
I've been meaning to share this with you guys for quite some time now. Here's a set of parallels that I built over 30 years ago, and still find use for every week. I have to say that I've never seen anything else like these online, so I think you're getting your...
by Phil Kerner | Mar 17, 2013 | Members Only: The Tool Room, The Basics - Measuring, Locating, and Checking Your Work, The Basics - Milling, The Basics - Workholding
Here's something that I use every single day of the week, and there's just no substitute for it. Period. I always give you the stuff that I know will work for you, because I've used it myself and know if it's a piece of junk or a piece of art. If I didn't have access...
by Phil Kerner | Mar 17, 2013 | Members Only: The Tool Room, The Basics - Measuring, Locating, and Checking Your Work
Once a toolmaker, always a toolmaker. To this day, I still very much enjoy looking at tool catalogs and finding new stuff that will make me better and faster at my job. I've been begging my boss for one of these for a few years, and finally got one a few months ago....
by Phil Kerner | Mar 17, 2013 | Members Only: The Tool Room, Real Manufacturing Experiences, The Basics - Measuring, Locating, and Checking Your Work
These days, I find myself using an edge finder a lot more often due to the work I do now. Most of the stuff that comes my way these days is dimensioned from an edge. Back in my moldmaking days, almost everything was dimensioned from the center of my work. Yes, you can...
by Phil Kerner | Feb 15, 2013 | Members Only: The Tool Room, The Basics - Measuring, Locating, and Checking Your Work
Back in my days as a mold maker, we didn't use gage pins. Almost all of the holes that we needed to machine were standard sizes, and as long as the ejector pins slid freely and the core pins were tight, we were good to go. In the "machining world," all of that changes...
