Quote Originally Posted by jerry clayton View Post

Pat and I are a lot alike in what and how we do things and with me it mainly came about because "OTHERS" made lots of common mistakes and dumb things---Pat and I have several thousands of dollars of equipment for the sole purpose of doing things right and exactly on size---and everytime we look at a mike or indicator, its not acceptable for it to be "close enough"\
---and I know of a half dozen other machinist's just around here locally that apply the same standards to their work! My only point is that it's a bit presumptive to assume that if it was done in another shop it wasn't done correctly.... IMO it goes back to something I learned many years ago----no matter how good you are, there's always someone better!