Re: Outdoor Welding

On 6/26/2025 6:23 AM, Jim Wilkins wrote:

"Jim Wilkins"  wrote in message news:103jf7i$3fabe$1@dont-email.me...
 https://www.businessballs.com/amusement-stress-relief/tree-swing- cartoon-pictures-early-versions/
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 The link to "BusinessBalls tree swing cartoons" shows how far a project could go astray in Britain. It's getting that way here too, depending on which party is in power and the opposition's resentfulness, currently very high.
 Segway posted prints of how cartoonists imagined "feature-creep" of the project. Engineering was small and multi-tasking enough to avoid compartmental division that causes the very real coordination issues mentioned in that article.
 Segway engineers had a CNC lathe and mill to make samples of what they designed, unlike the auto factories with their strict union rules. I often had to take a machining project home (and charge the time) because the CNC was tied up. My older model shop sized machine tools are easier to use on scribed layouts.
jsw

I've made a few parts to scribe lines and center punches.  I made a point of it after my son gave me an optical center punch set for Christmas one year.  I even have a couple height gages with carbide scribes for helping with layout, although one usually only gets used to measure tool heights to be entered into a CNC machine's tool table.  Its pretty scary when I bring that carbide scribe down on top of a 0.026" ball nose end mill to measure the height.
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Bob La Londe
CNC Molds N Stuff
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