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I am about 3/4 through the lapping plates videos Tom Lipton did. It seems inexpensive and easy to do in any shop. Just takes time. I have a few different lapping and polishing compounds already from various wood working jobs finishing lacquer finishes. I do not believe the aggregate is all that different?
In any event, I'm thinking about trying this.
He had ductile iron for most of the video, but at the beginning he had aluminum plates laid out too. Aluminum seems awfully soft?
I've had an idea. To me, lapping plates seems like a poor man's way to surface grind. Lapping and measuring then lapping some more? I suppose I should get a good surface guage, one with that bumping nose on the front? I suppose that could be a project too.
But, to do things like making 123 blocks and lapping them square off the mill, or, touching up my parralells? Or the vise jaws in currently making. It would allow me to harden them then true them up. I have my eye on a nice bench top surface grinder, but it's very unrealistic I'll come up with the cash. So, a man's gotta look in other directions.
Thoughts? Opinions?
In any event, I'm thinking about trying this.
He had ductile iron for most of the video, but at the beginning he had aluminum plates laid out too. Aluminum seems awfully soft?
I've had an idea. To me, lapping plates seems like a poor man's way to surface grind. Lapping and measuring then lapping some more? I suppose I should get a good surface guage, one with that bumping nose on the front? I suppose that could be a project too.
But, to do things like making 123 blocks and lapping them square off the mill, or, touching up my parralells? Or the vise jaws in currently making. It would allow me to harden them then true them up. I have my eye on a nice bench top surface grinder, but it's very unrealistic I'll come up with the cash. So, a man's gotta look in other directions.
Thoughts? Opinions?