Busting Metalworking Myths: Is It OK To Drag Your File?

If there’s a extra opinionated group of makers than machinists and metalworkers, I’d be stunned. One widespread level of argument is in the case of submitting issues. You see it in YouTube feedback and even in individual fairly often. Somebody goes to knock an edge off with a file, dragging each instructions, and somebody will critique their teqnique stating vehemently that they’re breaking a sacred regulation by not lifting their file on the again stroke. The declare is that by dragging the file backwards, you’re ruining it.

Fireball Software got down to see how a lot validity there may be to this argument. Is it actually damaging your file? Does it even matter? Nicely, you’ll have to observe to see the outcomes, in addition to the entertaining course of by which he arrives there.