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Act 4, with bonus footage!
Hi Ken,Those little helpers, always show up when you are doing something in the shop. My little helper is my 3 year old grand daughter. She gets into my mill tooling and starts putting the drills/endmills into all of the open holes she can find. Any loos screws, carbide inserts laying around go into those holes, too. She loves playing with the step blocks, at least the smaller ones, can't quite pick up the bigger one's. When that happens, it's time to put her to work! Ken
well, back at the salt mines...
were getting a lot better contact, the straightedge is starting to hinge correctly on the surface plate.
Hinging, for the uninitiated, is the act of handling one end of the piece being scraped on the inked up surface plate in an arcing fashion, to see the point of greatest contact for the opposing end, which is about 1/3 the distance from the end of the work when a properly scraped piece is hinged.
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and after a few more heavy scraping cycles....
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as indicated by the light blue, the surface contact has broadened greatly.
another score of cycles will be necessary to call it flat!