Post by paul on Mar 3, 2006 22:13:47 GMT
Had a great little moment tonight when I solved two problems in one go. I was thinking how to ensure that the end of a piece of rod that I'd cut was square (ie perpendicular to the length of the rod). Getting it reasonably flat is pretty simple but getting it 'square'?
The answer presented itself - place rod in chuck of drill, wrap decent flat surface with wet 'n dry and fix in drill vice parallel with table, slowly move A to B! Gave a nice square end (I know it won't be absolutely exact but it's good enough to the eye and it's neat).
While doing this fix #2 occured to me... the concentric circular pattern created by the above nicely marks the centre of the rod. I've struggled in the past to drill rod or bolts lengthwise and get the hole exactly centred but this time I just centre punched the circular pattern and got a dead centre hole.
Sweet.
The answer presented itself - place rod in chuck of drill, wrap decent flat surface with wet 'n dry and fix in drill vice parallel with table, slowly move A to B! Gave a nice square end (I know it won't be absolutely exact but it's good enough to the eye and it's neat).
While doing this fix #2 occured to me... the concentric circular pattern created by the above nicely marks the centre of the rod. I've struggled in the past to drill rod or bolts lengthwise and get the hole exactly centred but this time I just centre punched the circular pattern and got a dead centre hole.
Sweet.