Thread: Great to teach an enthusiastic youngster

I am currently helping a young lad learn a bit about Engineering so came up with this little support jack as a project to include a few interesting machined parts.

I just made one for me before he come over and we make another together for him, actually quite pleased how it turned out.

The idea is you use it to support items being machined and it included stepper blocks for various heights with the screw thread to give finer adjustment.

UPDATE... The lad came round today and it was great, to cut a long story short we made another jack together and even added a few embellishments in his to introduce a few extra operations like knurling etc......You can see his on the right, he went home a happy lad with a shiny new toy :-)

Awesome! Not many opportunities for youngsters to work with precision kit like that. I'm slightly envious (and probably too old to learn new tricks!)

Cool post, well done, thank you for taking the time to mentor the young fella.

Very nice and well done for passing along some great skills.
I made one during my apprenticeship many years ago which has a 45 degree groove across the top which is handy when supporting shafts in the mill.

I thought that so put the 10mm hole in the top so he can make various shaped feet to locate on there, like you say a V shape would be good for round bar.

Now that makes even more sense than the design of my one. I have got a hole in the center also.

awesome. Real life skills for the younger these days is what is needed. the insight into what a bit of maths, science and logic can do, will undoubtedly encourage subject enthusiasm at school. Good on you for taking the time.

I seem to remember making something like that in High school..... quite a long time ago.

A very handy piece of gear, and next he'll need to make a small vise, then.......

Great effort teaching a young 'n those skills. Hopefully it'll capture his imagination for a career.

note: I still have my toolbox and torque wrench I made as an apprentice in the late 70's

Originally Posted by XR500

Great effort teaching a young 'n those skills. Hopefully it'll capture his imagination for a career.

note: I still have my toolbox and torque wrench I made as an apprentice in the late 70's

I'd like to see a picture of the torque wrench you made