StanFoster
Active Member
- Joined
- Nov 16, 2003
- Messages
- 17,139
- Location
- Paxton, Il
- Aircraft
- Helicycle N360SF
- Total Flight Time
- 1250
Todd- I am amazed watching machinists at work. You guys work with thousandths and repeatedly, wheras I struggle with 64ths. If I get something within a 64th, I am still 0.015 away! That would be a mile with the tolerances you work with. Question.......what is the toughest tolerance you have had to maintain?? Do you ever have to turn a shaft to within a thousanth,,,or even 1/2 of a thousanth?? I subscribe to the Kitplanes magazine, and my favorite section is the monthly section written by Bob, the machinist. The techniques for finding the exact centers, or edge of your material just amazes me, and that is just the simple stuff you guys go through. To me, machinists are in a league all by themselves. Later on in my Helicycle build thread, I am going to ask you a question I am struggling with on my own. I know you would laugh at the process I am struggling with , btw, its a drilling operation, but I am hardwired to try to figure it out on my own, before crying UNCLE. Anyway, you will be the one I will ask after I figure it out the hard way,,, or if I give up and just ask sooner. Todd, keep up the challenging work that amazes this non-machinist. Stan