Chapter 15
Making Metal Parts Pretty
IN THIS CHAPTER
Digging abrasives
Shopping for the right shapes
Bonding abrasives together
Going straight (line)
Shining up and blasting off
Putting the metal to the metal
Fortune favors the prepared mind.
— LOUIS PASTEUR
In the awesomely classic movie Back to the Future, Doctor Emmett Brown had but one reason for choosing to build his time machine from a DeLorean DMC-12. It wasn’t in the interests of style, as he told young Marty McFly. It wasn’t the car’s streamlined body style or gullwing doors. No, the decision was based on a very selfish motive: He knew that its stainless-steel body would need very little maintenance, giving him more time to focus on his scientific studies.
Seriously. The motor was woefully underpowered for rapid acceleration to 88 miles per hour, a fact that almost left Marty McFly stranded in the 1950s. The electrical system ...
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