Measuring drilling tapping

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1911 plate, handy jig for milling, barrel fitting, slide fitting.
As mentioned in another thread, drill rod, and undersized drill rod from McMaster Carr come in all the 1911 sizes and many more. Very tight tolerance, 2"-3" long. 2 or 3 bucks a piece.
Ebay for aluminum plate, bolts, and 90 angle

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Here is my ordinate sketch for the plate, using decking height and slide stop as zeros, although when I actually cut it I lowered the top below the slide cut.

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That’s awesome. I’m actually sitting in a drafting class right now. The casino is sending me here twice a week

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Drafting class is a great foundation for tons of stuff.
I took it in high school in the 70s and still helps me out.

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I’m learning the easy way AutoCad

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Holy moly, thought I was over on the 1911 forum for a minute.
For the plate, more then 3 or 4 pins over constrain the frame anyway. Makes 0 difference how thick the plate is. But you knew all that, just busting my chops, right? :rofl:

Learned acad in the 80’s if I remember correctly. ACAD 9/DOS 3.x? Played around with revit, and inventor, both pretty cool, but still running ACAD on the personal. Kinda like the 1911 of computer drafting.
We are using Revitzo or something like that now, got a team of brainiacs doing all the 3d modeling. I’m just the hammer.

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Worst thing if you totally screw up your out 5 bucks worth of metal, and gained 10 bucks worth of knowledge. No reason to overcomplicate it.

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I really enjoyed getting my precision machinist apprentice certification.
Too bad i cannot do anything with it around here.

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