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Bogstandard
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I had a member PM me today, and it reminded me of one of the most useless tools in my workshop. Luckily I didn't buy it, but had it donated by a so called friend. Now I know why he gave it away.
It is an optical centre finder, made by an American company, and as useful as a bowler hat with sleeves.
I have blanked out the name to protect the innocent.
If used in a cleanroom environment it would perform admirably, but in a normal workshop, a dead loss.
This is designed for use with ferrous metal parts and the D shaped piece is in fact a fairly strong magnet.
Can you tell me anywhere in a working workshop where there isn't any minute bits of ferrous swarf (there are bits sticking to it as I set up this shot).
When you come to use it and put it down on the job it attracts bits from everywhere, and stops you putting the graticule down the hole in the magnet, clean it out and the same thing happens again. Swarf appears out of nowhere as if by magic.
Maybe this will make a nice christmas gift for one of those 'has it all' model engineers.
Maybe you have one that is worse than this, if so show it to us, and give us a laugh on how to waste money on totally useless items.
John the human magnet.
It is an optical centre finder, made by an American company, and as useful as a bowler hat with sleeves.
I have blanked out the name to protect the innocent.
If used in a cleanroom environment it would perform admirably, but in a normal workshop, a dead loss.
This is designed for use with ferrous metal parts and the D shaped piece is in fact a fairly strong magnet.
Can you tell me anywhere in a working workshop where there isn't any minute bits of ferrous swarf (there are bits sticking to it as I set up this shot).
When you come to use it and put it down on the job it attracts bits from everywhere, and stops you putting the graticule down the hole in the magnet, clean it out and the same thing happens again. Swarf appears out of nowhere as if by magic.
Maybe this will make a nice christmas gift for one of those 'has it all' model engineers.
Maybe you have one that is worse than this, if so show it to us, and give us a laugh on how to waste money on totally useless items.
John the human magnet.