Maxwell wrote:
"Dan" wrote in message
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Maxwell wrote:
"Morgans" wrote in message
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"Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe" The Sea Hawk at wow way d0t com wrote

You are talking about grinding the OD of one of these bad boys?
http://www.woodcraft.com/family.aspx?familyid=8311

Yep/ That's the type.

Make a widget to hold a small angle grinder on its side, with a pivot
and a screw for advancing the grinder a bit at a time. Make it so that
it will work clamped to a drill press table.

Put the drill bit in the drill press, and push the bit up and down past
the spinning grinder. Advance the grinder a bit at a time, and stop to
check the progress often.

It works. I've done it before. I am a bit "Rube Goldbergish" at times.
That comes in handy, for a homebuilder.

Of course, if you know someone who works in a machine shop, he could do
the job in a tenth of the time. Where's the fun in that, though?
--
Jim in NC
I think you and Dan have had a little too much torpedo juice!



'scuse me, I don't think battery acid is good to drink. I prefer the good
stuff: Pepsi™.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

Torpedo juice was supposed to be alchol. Ref:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpedo_Juice
Don't you remember Buster Keaton drinking torpedo juice in the old Muscle
Beach Party movies.


The old torpedoes did burn alcohol. The running gag in McHale's Navy
TV series and many movies is they would drink the stuff. If memory
serves it wasn't safe to drink since it was wood alcohol. The problem
with alcohol burning in torpedoes is you get wakes that can be seen
visually and heard by hydrophones. That's why they went to batteries for
electric drive. That and gyros could be electric instead of pressure driven.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired