... but what we can *do* is pretty bloody cool.
I sent a mate away from my workshop earlier chortling with delight at what I'd done.
What I'd done was a ten minute job. He'd got a 6mm Allen bolt at the end of a (roughly) 250mm long, 30mm diameter tube. He needed to undo it.
So I took a lump of 10mm(ish) steel rod, faced the end, drilled it
6.5mm, sawed off a 6mm Allen key, cleaned up both bits, cross drilled the 10mm rod with a 5mm drill, bunged a bit of 5mm steel in it, silver soldered the 5mm piece in the cross hole, silver soldered the 6mm Allen stub in the end of the rod, felt flash and stamped the other end "6mm" because I could.He has wandered off shaking his head at the wonder of it all, I'm left shaking my head at how easy it was, with the right tools.