Inside Doc's Machine Shop

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Got word back from the owner that he was in fact going to reanodize, and wanted the plugs as smooth as possible.

So, into the stripper she went...



And after cleanup, here's a close-up showing how close they were.



The rest just took a little patient care with a couple fine needle files, taking care not to scratch or gouge anything, and working both down to the matching slight curves.



Finally, a couple light passes with some 800-grit, blends them together nicely.



And that's pretty much as 'invisible' as an eye repair gets.

Doc.

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Couple random pics as I empty off my camera cards:

The setup in my Nichols horizontal mill (that I rebuilt from a rusty junker) used to cut the slots in my Flashpoint tips:



I have a digital indexer, which makes this kind of thing a touch quicker, but that was set up on another machine at the time.

And here's an interesting shot from the beginning of an MCB'ers project:



Hope to have that one finished and out the door this week!

Doc.