<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 9:03 PM, Gene Heskett <<a href="mailto:gheskett@wdtv.com" target="_blank">gheskett@wdtv.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> On Saturday 16 March 2013 23:42:20 Ernest Doub did opine: > On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Gene Heskett <<a href="mailto:gheskett@wdtv.com">gheskett@wdtv.com</a>> 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 </blockquote><div> 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 On the Mojave </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <<a href="http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene" target="_blank">http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene</a>> is up! My views <<a href="http://www.armchairpatriot.com/What%20Has%20America%20Become.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.armchairpatriot.com/What%20Has%20America%20Become.shtml</a>> A fool and his honey are soon parted. I was taught to respect my elders, but its getting harder and harder to find any... -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- Politics is the Entertainment Division of the military industrial complex. ~Frank Zappa Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963 Monster = <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXP4tRUuqUY" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXP4tRUuqUY</a> “The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted” (Psalm 12:8) “ But now, he that hath a purse, (bill fold, credit card holder) let him take it, and likewise his scrip: (dollars) and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one. Luke 22:36 (KJV) emphasis added.