I've decided the way to do the shop tour is to break it into chunks of short videos. I'll write up a blog post to go with each one which I'll probably end up using as a script so I don't feel nervous.
Because the first "station" in my shop is going to be the surface plate, I thought it might be worth while to prime the newcomer with some thinking - or education - about the origins of precision measuring instruments and precision machinery which made possible the machine tools of today.
And because I'm lazy, and there are other people who are better at researching and talking about this stuff than I am, I'm just going to provide interested parties with the videos I have in mind, right here...
The Machine Thinking channel decided to build his own micrometer just for the hell of it, and he has a great set of videos about that project, as well as some of the history which lead up to the creation of the first micrometer.
The same channel's video, "the 1751 Machine That Made Everything" is also educational and interesting:
With those as fundamental history behind metrology and mechanical precision, we are prepared to talk about the granite surface plate. For anyone who isn't already familiar with what they are and why they are useful, here's yet another video:
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