On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 13:36:44 -0800, Jim Stewart wrote:
darkon wrote:

Assuming I've framed the question adequately, what's your opinion?
Is my lovely old Dad right?

That's the way I was taught in high
school shop class...

Well, same here, but they also told us that glass flows over time and a
bunch of other provably wrong stuff. I'm with darkon on this one, I've
heard it, I do it, but I've never understood the reasoning for it.

Put it another way - my 3-jaw on my lathe only has one place to tighten
the chuck...