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RE: How to Build a Stack of Gauge Blocks - chucketn - 08-02-2013
Tom, your video prompted me to buy an 81 piece gage block set today. I found one on Shars E-Bay site(Discount Machine) for $75.00, with free shipping. Has a traceable standard an is identical to the set in your video. Now I can check the accuracy of my Dad's Starrett 1" mic and the 2=3" I picked up at the flea market last Sunday, as well as my various calipers.
Thanks again.
Chuck
RE: How to Build a Stack of Gauge Blocks - TomG - 08-02-2013
Thanks Chuck.
What did you teach in the USAF? I taught high school industrial arts, welding and vocational machine shop, 9th. grade through 12th. I got to work with 14 years old's who had never seen a lathe as well as "seasoned veteran" 18 year old's in the vocational program. Teaching can be a very rewarding experience.
Tom
RE: How to Build a Stack of Gauge Blocks - chucketn - 08-02-2013
Tom, I taught EF-111 Electronics Maintenance on the Electronic Warfare Systems, Digital Electronics, High Reliability Soldering, and Training Management, in a Field Training Detachment, Mtn Home AFB, Idaho.
Chuck
RE: How to Build a Stack of Gauge Blocks - DaveH - 08-02-2013
Good stuff Tom
DavH
RE: How to Build a Stack of Gauge Blocks - chucketn - 08-02-2013
Tom,
What grease do you use on your blocks? Is it stored in a plastic container in the case?
Chuck
RE: How to Build a Stack of Gauge Blocks - TomG - 08-02-2013
Chuck,
It's just a gob of white lithium I stuck in a recess in the case. I thought about cutting a pocket for some sort of container, but this makes it more accessible. I don't really care if it gets dirty from being in the open since I clean it off the blocks anyway before I use them.
Tom