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    Quote Originally Posted by magicniner View Post
    Everyone seems to forget completely about the importance of good bench work once they've seen a machine ;-)
    I have a piece of my late father-in-laws work from his pre-war Army training in the Signals. It is a test piece, a steel plate with a 1" square hole and in the hole is a friction fit 1" steel square. You can put that inner square into the hole in any rotation or turn and the fit is the same - perfect. All this was done with a drill, a file and a micrometer. My bench work is crude and impatient by comparison.
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