Imgur watchmaker part 3

Sep 14, 2016 6:09 PM

I just finished making this cube out of brass, it took me 3 days! Each edge is meant to be 13 millimetres long and I have hand filed them down to within one tenth of a millimetre of 13 millimetres, I am proud of this lil cube

"PUT THE CUBE IN MY CHEST SAM!"

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I like your cube.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Now make a d20 and you can D&D with your nerdy friends!

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Is 13mm the circumference of your b-hole?

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But it's not a watch though...

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It's hard to tell the size @op, do you have any scales that you can use?

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The engineer in me marvels at the excellent tolerances, the asshole in me wants to hit it with a sledgehammer...

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

exactly the same way 6 times, once on each face.

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What is this millimetre of which you speak? What does that convert to in bananas?

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Glorious!

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An average banana is about 8" long, and 8"=203.2mm. Therefore one millimetre is 0.0049 of the length of an average banana.

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Why would you hand file it?

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To be as accurate as possible and to develop skills

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It seems like it would be much more accurate if you used a machine

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It's nearly impossible to take off tenths or eventually thousandths of millimetres with a fast moving machine

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So what you're saying is you don't have access to a CNC machine

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No, I'm saying we're learning to use our hands

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