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Originally posted by wysiswyg
Mehhh how hard can it be. All you have to be is tediuos. If the wright brothers assistant could build an airplane engine using a natural gas powered lathe and drill, and hand tools to thousandths of an inch how hard could it be to build it using the tools we have today.
Being tedious is my point. Gage blocks and indicators were created in the mid 1800's. So precise measurement has been around a while. Laying out a drive setup with a height gage and drilling holes on a drill press will work, but you still need to precisely measure the hole locations if you want a smooth, frictionless system. I'm sure the Wright Brothers used Gage Blocks and indicators to build a gas powered motor. You can't get a precise piston to wall measurement from a pair of dividers and expect that the piston will not sieze or rattle itself out of the bore. Or correct oil clearance on the bearings without a bore gage.

You can only hold as tight a tolerence as the machinery that you have to work with. The better the tools, the better you can repeatedly hold a tight tolerence. Modern machinery dramatically reduces the time required to Accurately machine a part, and beinng we are only given 6 weeks to design and build a robot....all the time you save...
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