How to build a file rack?

I am not so sure. I use a Dvorak keyboard layout and think it is better than the querty or Sholes keyboard. Do you know the history of the Sholes keyboard? Sholes made one of the earliest typewriters. It was quite different from the typewriters of the 1960's. The keys struck the paper on the bottom of the platten so the typist could not see a word that had just been typed. It also did not use any springs to speed up the return of the key. As a result a fast typist would jam the keys. Sholes solution was to rearrange the letters on the keyboard so that people could not type as fast. If evolution of design really happened, the Querty keyboard would be history.

Dan

I don't know what he means, but a lot of people use it to mark equipment as "Not Repairable", and NER for "Not Economical (to) Repair".

Which sloppy work habits are you referring to? Not sending Clausing $150 for a bakelite knob and a cold rolled shaft?

The methodology of the left has always been:

1. Lie
2. Repeat the lie as many times as possible
3. Have as many people repeat the lie as often as possible
4. Eventually, the uninformed believe the lie
5. The lie will then be made into some form oflaw
6. Then everyone must conform to the lie

So putting a golf ball on the end of a handle will ensure that a customer gets a half-done job?

Perhaps at this point you should look up the term "anal retentive"

Gunner

The methodology of the left has always been:

1. Lie
2. Repeat the lie as many times as possible
3. Have as many people repeat the lie as often as possible
4. Eventually, the uninformed believe the lie
5. The lie will then be made into some form oflaw
6. Then everyone must conform to the lie

A hint to the clueless, the R is for Rigged.

Gunner on Mon, 04 Mar 2013 02:17:02 -0800 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:

There's a part of me which is thinking "Golf Ball?? Wouldn't billiard balls be longer lasting?"

Well, tastes is tastes.

-- pyotr filipivich "With Age comes Wisdom. Although more often, Age travels alone."

Shouldn't matter, as long as you hide the clubs.

Use a bowling ball. They already have several sizes of holes for mounting.

Copper tubing works a treat for ferrules. Anything to help the wood.

I'm going to try the golf ball handle trick when Gunner's gaggle of goodies reaches me. I think I have only 1 commercial handle left and two wooden handles I made in the last century.

I have several wrecking balls I'll try first, Mikey.

Yep, it's a good use for short scrap from replumbing. I also use leftover EMT and aluminum tubing. jsw

OK, lemmie try to say this. I believe in the *Totally Politically Correct*. So what occurs to you instantly won't occur to me all that quickly. I don't like terms in such a negative light that constantly refer to blacks, hispanics, jews and others.

Hey Gunner,

Just a comment.....I have about what you say, some of them from similar sources. I did buy up the "remainder" of stock from a local vendor that was switching brands some time ago, each individually wrapped in protective paper, about 50 files for 50 bucks. Good deal !

Anyway, of the 50, I have about 10 "in use", and the remaining 40 or so are still in the boxes they came in, in a drawer for files. The really small files, Grobet rifflers etc. are in folders as they come.

I also have three files at each lathe, and they hang in slotted "spoon racks" that I pick up at garage sales. Works a treat, and that's where most of my filing is done with bigger (than the Grobet) files. I don't seem to do a lot of bench filing by hand now that I think about it. Guess I usually use a power tool !!!???

A friend has (all dimensions are guesses) about a 30" tall X 16" wide per-panel X 4-sided free-standing "lazy-susan"(??) that stands on his main work-bench. Each side has associated tools, pliers, wrenches, screw-drivers, files & punches. Most of these are arranged so that the "working" part is visible for easy selection. I won't try to go into the actual construction, but each "row" on each "column" for the tools can be removed and a "better" model put in its place quite easily with just 4 screws. If I had room on top any bench, I'd build one !!

Take care.

Brian Lawson, Bothwell, Ontario.

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Im going through drawers and tool boxes and dug out my files.... Ive been keeping them in IBM punch card drawers...laid on top of each other..not a good thing.

BIG SNIP

Let us know when you guys finish wrecking them. :)

Ooh, a stick of 1/2" EMT would make over 100, wouldn't it? I'll have to remember this.

Any big electrical contractors in your area? I had one offer to let me leave a utility trailer at his storage lot for his crews to toss all their scrap metal into.

No, I don't think there are, but someone would probably steal both the trailer and metal if I had a contractor or trailer handy. Thanks anyway. I do have a bent tube of 1/2" EMT + a tubing cutter, though.

There was a 12' chain link fence around the warehouse & offices where they loccked up ther trucks at night. I got about five free trailer loads, before I moved out of the area.

"Michael A. Terrell" on Tue, 05 Mar 2013

You wouldn't miss it. Get one of the colored swirling patterns - it would be striking!

-- pyotr filipivich "With Age comes Wisdom. Although more often, Age travels alone."