Quote: (Originally Posted by
cool_hardware52)
A clever man with a mill and an engine lathe can do ~95% of what needs doing.
Tobin
Or a file and *lots* of time....
Way back when I came home from Antarctica, I apprenticed as a gunsmith for a year. The first day I got there, old Master Gunsmith gave me a lump of metal, a micrometer, a straight edge, and a circle-drawing compass, pointed to a vise and told me to come back to him when the block of metal was square and an inch on each side. The first step was to make a square... using the compass and some basic geometry to draw a square and then to file a square out of scrap steel. Tools then made, it was down to 'file and fit'. It toook two weeks. Bottom line: I learned to make tools, use tools, and have a funny looking cube of metal on my desk...
With a forge and steel you can make a file... with a file you can make the world.
(But CNC?.... Yeah Baby!!)
Dave