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 :-)