Originally Posted by
mordantly
why would you need to lie a parallel on its side?? just use a shorter set. as to being bent, it sounds like you are too rough on the thin sets! this reminds me of a bizarre case of a few different sizes from each set disappearing. we had standard and thin sets. one day i was emptying the chip cart from one of the mills and found a 1" size in the chips dumpster. on further investigation, they had been getting lost inside the machine and the swarf conveyor was spitting them out and burying them in AL chips.