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Dude, you're a machinist!

While at work today I was lamenting about the price of marble and how I couldn't find a properly sized small slab so that I could try my hand at lapping film. My coworker asked why I needed a marble slab? I replied I needed a hard, perfecftly smooth, flat surface on which to affix the film. He looks at me puzzled, and goes "Dude, you're a machinist!" and points to the mountain of scrap steel slabs. Aha! Twenty minutes later I had my 3"x10" lapped steel surface. Sometimes the obvious escapes me.:blush:
 
Gotta love when you forget the obvious!

I almost was the opposite way when I was a machinist, I would make stuff that would be cheaper and easier to buy lol
 
Gotta love when you forget the obvious!

I almost was the opposite way when I was a machinist, I would make stuff that would be cheaper and easier to buy lol

just today I made a pulley puller for a coworker, though they lend them for free at autozone. in his defense, 6 12hr shifts a week doesn't leave much time to go to the parts store
 
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