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Dial Repair Sticks I've used a similar product on dial graduations with good results.

IrnHed, I've never tried it on a metal rule but as a kid who liked to build model cars I used to thin down testors paint and with a loaded brush touch the edge of the groove and the paint would wick into it. This worked on the chrome plastic grills on the cars.

http://www.use-enco.com/CGI/INPDFF?PMPAGE=60&PARTPG=INLMK32 Take a look at this Chuck.

Very sorry for your loss John. Hope you and your brother can keep in touch, in the end family is all that matters. Al

Thanks Vernon, I think I'm making this harder than it is :-[

I agreed to make a few dial indicator extension rods for a buddy and it went well until it came time to add the threaded portion. Wow those threads look small, no problem, good challenge I thought. Pull out the thread gage, check a few, no match! Oh-oh. The finest metric gage i have is .50...

I remember my first day in the power plant as a 21 year old kid, very intimidating! We have 3 boilers and the fire box measures 40' x 80' and 16 stories high! Massive pumps, valves, fans and electric motors the size of a single car garage :o And the tools to maintain this equipment is sized to...

Yep, same problem here Rick. Same solution too. Smitty

I shut it down Chuck, just seemed like a good habit to get into.

Nothing glamorous, during my senior year in high school (1972) i worked 3-11 shift fabbing truck trailers and boxes for City Welding. After graduation i married my high school sweetheart and we moved to Florida and i worked for an outfit called Stromberg-Carlson installing telephone switching...

Hello group, I’ve been soaking up as much as I can for a few months now and finally got up the courage to introduce myself. My name is Al but everyone calls me Smitty, I’m soon to be 55 yrs old. Up until about a year ago I hadn’t operated a lathe since high school. I’ve worked for the last...