[AT] repairing machined arts

[Mark Johnson]

A former co-worker used to tell a story on his dad, an old-school machinist: Apparently ol' dad worked in a job shop with a really nasty foreman, who brought in some worn-out part or another and told him "I need another one just like this." A week or more went by, and Russell (such was his name) brought the boss an exact duplicate of the part, right down to the wear marks and scrapes on the sliding surfaces.

He told the guy "I could have made a new part in a day or so, but you said it had to be exactly like this one."

He never got such ambiguous instructions again.

Mark J
Columbia, MO

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The shortcoming of this for the repair of unavailable tractor parts is that you need a Cad file of a good part first.

https://www.imeche.org/news/news-article/feature-retrofit-transforms-legacy-machine-tools-to-keep-worn-parts-in-use?utm_campaign=PE%20newsletter%2C%206%20December&utm_source=email&utm_medium=PE%20Newsletter

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