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After completing my first years engineering apprenticeship at Dock Street Leith it was back to Scottish and Newcastle's maintenance shop in Hollywood Edinburgh.First day back big Alec the gaffer says here's a wee job for you son.Its the cylinder heed of a mini and a want yea to give it a wee skim on that lathe.4 jaw Chuck cinncanti, job trued up and 16 year old Jim's thinking this should be done on a surface grinder.Its 1967 anything can happen.Job done.My treat; taken through the streets of Edinburgh by a Scottish champion rally driver at hair rasing speeds and turns.

This should have been posted under social but when you complete the post admin you get three blank options to post it under?

Back in the day it would have been done on a shaper.

Shaper's? 4 jaw chucks? You were lucky, back in the day we used to use a couple of virgins armed with flat bottomed spokeshaves.
Nigh on impossible to use that same method today. I mean where are you going to find a couple of flat bottom spokeshaves?