removing the black mark on our trade

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Hot dang,  hot topic, hot everything except the weather. 

   Ok,  I see by the responses that I wasn't too far out of the circle.  Blue 
chalk seems to be a good try, but I will go looking for the Crayola stuff, 
too. 
   Now,  I just recently moved the air compressor into the basement, ran the 
line up through the floor, bought a $50 air powered die grinder at Home Depot 
and chucked an egg shaped wood rasp in the end of it.  This has done a faster 
job of fitting this pinblock than anything I have tried before,(except an 
electric router, which caused some nerve damage from the vibrations of 
fitting a very large block, last summer).  
   I begin by cutting a shallow channel along the middle of the pinblock 
flange-face, so that I only see contact along the top and bottom edges of the 
pinblock.  As I progress towards a closer and closer fit,(which goes rapidly 
due to the two "strips" of contact being the only place I need to work),  I 
begin to see contact in the center, where I had dug the channel.  Once I have 
an unbroken line of contact on at least 2/3 of the face surface, I am done.  
No more than a 1' gap  between contact points anywhere along the flange, and 
no place where one of the three lines doens't touch. 
    I use the grinder on the flange face, and use a small sander with 50 grit 
belts on the top.  Once the block is in contact with approx 30% of its 
surface, I go with just the sander, as it makes a larger contact area and the 
fit seems to get close, quicker.  
The grinder has virtually no vibration, it is very light, and  with a 
flexible cord, quite handy to use.  
   
Regards, 
Ed Foote RPT