mkinitrd on missing list?

[Ernest Doub]

On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 9:03 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:

> On Saturday 16 March 2013 23:42:20 Ernest Doub did opine:
>
> > On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> [...]>
> > Gene look on Evil BAY or at a local hobby shop that caters to the R/C
> > car crowd for tiny tools.
> > Sometimes you have to be looking under the right color rock to find the
> > gnome sized tools.
> > ED
>
> That might be a possibility, but our "local" Hobby Stop shop, 60 miles &
> change for the round trip, is closed tomorrow.
>
> So I expect I'll just make one on the milling machine, out of a broken 1/8"
> shank carbide milling tool.  A dremel diamond disk in the mill, the broken
> carbide tool in a 3 jaw on the rotary table.  First, take the last 1/8" of
> it down to about 0.070 diameter, then write a loop that sets the table at
> 60 degree intervals, polish a couple thou off at each position using the
> diamond until a test fit just fits.  I can do that tomorrow, and it will be
> a better made wrench than I can buy for any amount of money.  Carbide is
> tough stuff, but the diamond, spinning slow so it doesn't get hot and
> ablate the edges away, will cut it very precisely.  And it cuts smoother
> and faster if, when its just touching, its wiggled sideways so that the
> tallest diamond grains which do the cutting, are not just plowing a groove,
> but doing a mirror finish thats dead flat.  I made a countersink that way
> this afternoon.
>
> The next person that picks it up out of the drawer after I'm gone will not
> of course recognize what he has in his hand but it /will/ work better than
> anything he can buy.
>
> Cheers, Gene
>

I think I've now got a near terminal case of tool envy.  8^)
My next suggestion was going to be a hunk of scrap steel and some mill
files, needle files if available.

Ed
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