"Cliff" wrote in message
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There are issues like drilling into other features if you're not careful,
but the engineering department has started to mark hole locations as
opposed
to letting the toolmaker decide.

After how many years?

How many years has this taken? I think we've been in business for more than
15 years.

Years experience as a toolmaker to decide on hole locations? Apprentices get
to do it...


This doesn't do much for interchangability,
but that's another kettle.

See -A- above.

I didn't say the way we're doing it was the greatest way, but it does work.
I'd like to wire the holes so that we can machine drop-in replicas but I
don't think I'll see anything like that for a while.

Regards,

Robin