My 2.165 IE 55Mm Die stock build

[Frank S]

Good advice with the file, I need to remember that ! (the hardest part being to change your habits...)

It won't be hard if you ever have one tossed at you. back when I had several employees in the fabrication/ machine shop I owned at the time, one of my lathe operators, a machinist of about 25 years, was breaking the edge with a file when the end of it struck a jaw and sent the file across the shop. Fortunately that was all it did, I saw what happened and quizzed him about it. He said he was taught in machinist school to stand to the right of the tool post and hold the file away from his body incase it were to be struck by the jaws.
I told him that I was autodidactic in almost everything except for how to wind the crank on a forge blower and swing a hammer against hot metal so everything i knew about machining I had to learn on my own, one of the things is if it is spinning away from you, it is impossible for something to be thrown at you.
There are a lot of things in my life I don't do "according to Hoyle" I do them according to Frank.
Most guys who come around my shop to do this or do that over the years and created the acronym, WWFD its kind of flattering at times.