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Tool post grinding finish
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Dressing the wheel can make a great amount of difference in finish quality in machine grinding, with a fine dress and slow dressing travel, a relatively coarse grit wheel can make fine finishes.
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I use the same wheel, just (very) light and slow for the finish. Depends on how I am dimensionally, it's hard to put material back on the stock once it comes off. 
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At Kaiser steel, we had a "putting on machine" that was used when that happened; it was a "Rapid Plate" portable plating outfit, it had anodes of several metals that had a fabric sock over them that was occasionally dipped in an electrolyte jar and applied on the rotating part, still in the cylindrical grinder, I must admit that I made use of it several times. After the shop was closing, with the permission of the boss, I tried to find it and carry it off, but one of the other guys beat me to it ----I use the same wheel, just (very) light and slow for the finish. Depends on how I am dimensionally, it's hard to put material back on the stock once it comes off.
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That's right, you worked at Kaiser. I was a little young to board that train, but a lot of guys I knew in Napa worked there at one time or another. Actually, Bruce Tschida would have grabbed me before I ended up there. Dad would take me down to his shop starting when I was in diapers. Out of curiosity, how much material could be "put back" using this deposition swab method? I imagine the margin was very narrow.
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Yes, I worked there nearly 7 years all together, knew a lot of great guys there, about all gone now. If I had gone back to work when I was called back, I probably would have retired there, or at least had been there long enough to get some retirement money, but I did no have the required years to get anything except what I bought there before the auction, which I actually made money on. I made yearly visits to the shop and maintained a good relationship with management folks there.
As far as how much you could put on with the plating outfit, that sort of depended on how much time was spent standing there and applying it, and what the part might be worth, but several thou was within the possibilities. The grinder, a 16 X 72 Norton universal, likely fro9m the 1930s, had a stick/slip problem with the wheelhead, and sometimes would jump in deeper than what was dialed.
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Yeah, I knew Bruce T. he bought out Henry Reis's shop, I never had much to do with him, might have done something for him in my shop in the dim past.
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You knew Hank Reis? I absolutely remember him! My dad really looked up to him as a machinist. Bruce is still at the same shop, but it looks nothing like what it used to when Hank was there. It's all CNC now, on remote control. No more manual machines.
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Yes, I knew him pretty well, I think I was introduced to him by Frank Shippy, who had a shop a few blocks away on Soscol Ave. A friend, Pete Moale worked for Bruce for some time. Yes, all CNC, something that I wanted no part of, my shop was all manual; I had many winery related products that could be produced with manual machines at the relatively small batch quantities and sold for a good profit; there was no need to go CNC, but the guy who bought me out has gone in that direction and is doing quite well at it.
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One thing I remember about Hank was that he kept an impeccably clean shop ----- opposite of Shippy to be sure. I was somewhere in the middle.