Any safe way to thread away from my chuck on a South Bend 10K?

[Toolmaker51]

And that was a couple decades ago. Imagine what it's like now!

Imagining not required. Just watch "The Office", live version to what Scott Adams conceived with "Dilbert".
Just like when neurotic swivel chair jockeys, engineering aides with company credit cards and/ or expense accounts I know, want to borrow a caliper.
Sure thing!
As I hand them a box with a Starrett #123 model vernier.
While I continue doing whatever with a digital caliper .

 

[main_cogg]

You're nicer than I was to them. When they asked me to borrow calipers, I'd say " sure, inside or outside?" and pull these out of a drawer.

 

[Toolmaker51]

I'm nicer? Lol. Spring calipers though, pretty damn funny.
I wonder how many look at those, (what appears to us as simple logical mechanical device) but can't analyze the operation.
Indeed, how many is not known. I'm positive there's more every day.

 

[Ken226]

I'm nicer? Lol. Spring calipers though, pretty damn funny.
I wonder how many look at those, (what appears to us as simple logical mechanical device) but can't analyze the operation.
Indeed, how many is not known. I'm positive there's more every day.

How many indeed! At the current rate of decline of the number of people who alive who can do such things, it should soonbreach it's an asymptotic minimum.. the average IQ has been declining since the Victorian era.

I watched a documentary a few years ago. It was kinda funny, prophetic, and terrifying, all at the same time. Some of the absurd things from that show, I've since, seen come to pass. The hospital scene reminds me of every fast food place I've been recently.

I think it was called "Idiocracy".