From: (Del Rawlins)
Date: 10/17/2004 22:19 Central Daylight Time
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On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 16:58:34 GMT, guynoir
wrote:

Several years ago, I saw a c-frame tool set up with a laser shining on
the skin at the location of the center of the bottom die. This
simplified aiming for a hole when the die was covered by the skin. He
also rigged up a sledge hammer with a system of ropes and pulleys so
that he could raise the hammer by pressing a lever with his foot, then
let it drop on the punch. This allowed him to have both hands free for
handling a large sheet. We called it a laser guided sledge hammer. It
was not an elegant arrangement, a duct tape and bailing wire affair, but
it worked.

Sounds like something my dad would have rigged up. I thought I was
gonna die after I actually cleaned the shop and either re-sharpened or
disposed of all the mangled screwdrivers I found stuck in a drawer.
How was I supposed to know that each of them was a special tool?


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Del Rawlins--

I used to do gunsmithing. Your father's collection of "mangled" screwdrivers
sounds like mine. It is truely amazing how many of those beasties one needs.
The one thing I wish I had done was label what each was for. About 20 years ago
I was going to make an inletted box for them all. It still isn't made. No need
to rush these things, y'know.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired