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<blockquote data-quote="SidecarFlip" data-source="post: 765691" data-attributes="member: 39764"><p>Two old men reminiscing......</p><p> </p><p>BTW Riley, I can't answer your question except to say I was told a long time ago by a master tool and die maker, never to put a precision tool away without first wiping it with a lint free cloth and a bit of light machine oil and never to close the the measuring surfaces together, so I don't.</p><p> </p><p>Gary...</p><p> </p><p>I have 2 Gestner's full. One is my gold and it stays in the house. My Webber blocks and all the high end LSS stuff stays in that box, a LSStarrett Signature box in Honduras Mahogany, only one of 3 known to exist (according to Gerstner). My dad bought it for me for my 18th birthday. Still have the original receipt from Dessil (Production Tool) for 85 dollars. My other box, another Gerstner is oak and it's on my bench in the shop, I keep the tools I use in the shop in that one, a set of B blocks, a 6-12" sine bars, dividers, mikes, jig bore indicators steel rules....all the stuff I use everyday.</p><p> </p><p>I took my Tool and Die Apprenticeship with a break for the Navy, right out of HS at Standard Products in Cleveland, Ohio. It was primarily a production stamping shop with an in house die repair shop so most of my apprenticeship was die related. When I got my card, I left SP and went to work for a gage shop that made the gaging to check the curvature of the compressor section turbine blades on a Pratt-Whitney engine. It was all very close tolerance machining, mostly surface grinder and optical comparator work (before all the fancy DRO's and coordinate measuring) and such. They had a couple Bridgeports for rough work but I spent days on end cranking the table on manual surface grinders with finished tolerances in the 50 millionths range. That stuff gets old real fast and being young and dumb, I hung up my tools and pursued another profession, one, that made me lots of money and provided for a stress free life for the most part but as the years went by, I yearned to get back into the trades, but on my own terms so I started buying machine tools and building a shop and thats where I am today.</p><p> </p><p>I have a 40x40 man cave thats air conditioned and heated with an overhead crane for big stuff that I can go to, lock the door and be alone. best thing I ever did.</p><p> </p><p>How many motorcycle owners do you know that change the oil on their bikes by lifting the bikes to eye level. I bet not too many.</p><p> </p><p>I picked up some more knowledge on the road like TIG welding and heavy fabrication. There is nothing I can't make if I have the desire.....and the time.</p><p> </p><p>Like I said before, when I take a dirt nap, the wife will have one helluva sale. Between the firearms, the bikes, the machine tools and the fabrication equipment there will be some tremendous deals and I take care not to abuse anything. I hate scratched paint or buggered fittings.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SidecarFlip, post: 765691, member: 39764"] Two old men reminiscing...... BTW Riley, I can't answer your question except to say I was told a long time ago by a master tool and die maker, never to put a precision tool away without first wiping it with a lint free cloth and a bit of light machine oil and never to close the the measuring surfaces together, so I don't. Gary... I have 2 Gestner's full. One is my gold and it stays in the house. My Webber blocks and all the high end LSS stuff stays in that box, a LSStarrett Signature box in Honduras Mahogany, only one of 3 known to exist (according to Gerstner). My dad bought it for me for my 18th birthday. Still have the original receipt from Dessil (Production Tool) for 85 dollars. My other box, another Gerstner is oak and it's on my bench in the shop, I keep the tools I use in the shop in that one, a set of B blocks, a 6-12" sine bars, dividers, mikes, jig bore indicators steel rules....all the stuff I use everyday. I took my Tool and Die Apprenticeship with a break for the Navy, right out of HS at Standard Products in Cleveland, Ohio. It was primarily a production stamping shop with an in house die repair shop so most of my apprenticeship was die related. When I got my card, I left SP and went to work for a gage shop that made the gaging to check the curvature of the compressor section turbine blades on a Pratt-Whitney engine. It was all very close tolerance machining, mostly surface grinder and optical comparator work (before all the fancy DRO's and coordinate measuring) and such. They had a couple Bridgeports for rough work but I spent days on end cranking the table on manual surface grinders with finished tolerances in the 50 millionths range. That stuff gets old real fast and being young and dumb, I hung up my tools and pursued another profession, one, that made me lots of money and provided for a stress free life for the most part but as the years went by, I yearned to get back into the trades, but on my own terms so I started buying machine tools and building a shop and thats where I am today. I have a 40x40 man cave thats air conditioned and heated with an overhead crane for big stuff that I can go to, lock the door and be alone. best thing I ever did. How many motorcycle owners do you know that change the oil on their bikes by lifting the bikes to eye level. I bet not too many. I picked up some more knowledge on the road like TIG welding and heavy fabrication. There is nothing I can't make if I have the desire.....and the time. Like I said before, when I take a dirt nap, the wife will have one helluva sale. Between the firearms, the bikes, the machine tools and the fabrication equipment there will be some tremendous deals and I take care not to abuse anything. I hate scratched paint or buggered fittings. [/QUOTE]
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