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Lowell Holmes
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 Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 3:29 am Post subject: Remarkable |
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While at the university, one of my sons took a course called precision
engineering or something like that. In this class one of the things they had
to do was lap two pieces of steel until the steel was so smooth that when
you placed them together, they would take suction on each other and had to
pulled apart .
I never thought much about it until recently. A while back I was in the
local Woodcraft store and they had 10% off everything in the store sale
going on. In my befuddled state, I came home with a Lie Nielsen 4 1/2 hand
plane. :-)
When I take the iron out of the plane to hone it a bit, the iron and chip
breaker take suction on each other and I have to slide them side ways to
separate them. I don't know how they accomplish it, but I'm impressed.
The plane is a delight to use. |
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Lee
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| Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 3:29 am Post subject: Re: Remarkable |
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I remember from years ago I was an inspector at the old Wisc. Motors plant
in Milw. They had a set of Johansson (sp) blocks to set your mics with.
Someone put them together and they had one hell of time separating them.
"Lowell Holmes" <oak77539@verizon.net> wrote in message
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| Quote: | While at the university, one of my sons took a course called precision
engineering or something like that. In this class one of the things they
had to do was lap two pieces of steel until the steel was so smooth that
when you placed them together, they would take suction on each other and
had to pulled apart .
I never thought much about it until recently. A while back I was in the
local Woodcraft store and they had 10% off everything in the store sale
going on. In my befuddled state, I came home with a Lie Nielsen 4 1/2 hand
plane. :-)
When I take the iron out of the plane to hone it a bit, the iron and chip
breaker take suction on each other and I have to slide them side ways to
separate them. I don't know how they accomplish it, but I'm impressed.
The plane is a delight to use.
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Lew Hodgett
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| Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 12:44 am Post subject: Re: Remarkable |
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Leon wrote:
| Quote: | I realize that the industry in the real world uses a lot of published
standards that are typically acceptable. It seems to me that if you are
going for an education in a particular field that you should also be taught
to understand the principals rather than where to find the answers in the
book.
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Was not referring to "canned" formulas in a text book, but rather
understanding the assumptions that are required to be able to
intelligentally analyze a problem.
Had a thermodynamics prof that gave a weekly quiz.
Write the quiz on the board and walk out of the room with a comment
about using the text book.
"Gentlemen, understand I give a lot of partial credit for
understanding how to solve the problem."
"If you use a formula in the book, all I can test are your math skills."
Never opened the book for any of his exams.
| Quote: | OTOH going the easier route seems to be the explanation as to why many
college graduates don't seem to have any common sense knowledge about the
field that they studied.
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I'm a great believer in Co-oP schools.
You gather a sense of the real world along the way.
| Quote: | I recall many years ago an employee of mine getting his CPA's certificate
when we were both in our mid to late 20's. He very often quoted the book
and very often what he was quoting had nothing to do with what we were
talking about.
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I won't go there.
Lew |
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