The specification for the BHI D5 practical exam (cock and plate) drops in 96 mins (not that I am counting it in 🤣 - I only have 8 days to complete it out of the allowed 21) so I made a silver steel pivot burnisher and graver - hardened and tempered (I hope).
That pin vice it really good for holding gravers etc.
Engines are revving...
BHI exam D1 this afternoon. Anytime else going?
Was looking at those on eBay to hold the micrometer securely as a 3rd hand essentially and then thought: hang on...
Another use for the 360 degree bench pin vice.
...I feel mesmerised... There must be something wrong with me...
(Using it as a pilot hole for a 6mm threaded tool post mounting hole for a slide-in mild steel insert I fashioned after successfully winning a Bellend of the Year award by tightening a lantern tool post with an allen key used as a lever, resulting in a crumbled cast iron t-slot)
The start of a 12BA (1.3mm) screw - first thread I have made. A thing of beauty!