Collet blocks - video

[Jon]

Collet blocks. By Inheritance Machining. 17:21 video:

[old_toolmaker]

Very nice first project. You will go far!
Keep up the good work!

[WmRMeyers]

Collet blocks. By Inheritance Machining.

Not even two minutes into the video, and I hate you already! 53 years ago, give or take a few months, I flunked my mechanical drawing class, and nearly everything else my freshman year of high school. By the time I graduated, four years later, I'd managed to pull my GPA up to a 1.78, and that was pretty good. Final year I also got to take one section of machine shop, and loved it, but was still not exactly what you could call smart...

I am about to graduate from my 2nd class in machine shop. I have to make some ACME threaded internal and external parts, and I'm about done. I hate people who were smarter than I am way younger! Now I have to go watch the rest of the video, and drool over your shop. Did I mention that I hated you? I had to go buy (and in many cases, fix) my own machines. My grandpa didn't own a machine shop. So you picked a better family, too! ARGH!!!

Ok, I feel better. Lemme watch that video!

Bill

[WmRMeyers]

Only six side projects, too. I'll call that a wash, since you made minor errors on the hex block. In my shop, every project has at least 10 additional side projects, and I make a lot more major errors. OTH, I didn't grow up with someone who had a machine shop, and I didn't get to take that second class until 42 years after the first. And I had forgotten literally everything except that I loved machining! I got my first lathe about 13 years ago, but did not know what I didn't know anymore. Turned out the most important part of that was that touch it takes to make accurate measurements. I'm doing better now, and if I live for ever I may just catch up with you! Don't worry about it, we're not competing. I do still envy your workshop, and I'd advise you to get at least a 5-gallon drum of EvapoRust. It will will come in handy. I expect you'll have a lot of fun getting all your tooling and machines back into usable shape. I've found it relaxing to work on the machines, and to work with them. Enjoy!

Bill