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Machining For Dummies
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Machining For Dummies

by Kip Hanson
November 2017
Beginner content levelBeginner
312 pages
8h 54m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 10

Measuring Up

IN THIS CHAPTER

check Exploring clever ways to measure parts

check Figuring out the plus and minus thing

check Blocking and tackling: Gage blocks and pins

check Gaging threads

check Choosing a measuring machine

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be.

—WILLIAM THOMSON (LORD KELVIN)

I discuss the importance of part interchangeability in Chapter 1. Without it, every component in a car, washing machine, space shuttle, or child’s swing set would be unique, and mate up only with parts that had been custom made for that specific assembly. Fortunately, the development of precision machine tools — together with some ingenious engineering-think a couple centuries back ...

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