This is why we can’t have nice things.
The following parallel was found to be slightly bent - meaning it will rock against a flat surface like the vise. that had to have taken some force to do that.
Anyway, I have marked it as bent. It is still usable to establish a height but do not depend on it if you need to establish a flat.
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Parallels are only accurate as it relates to the two parallel edges.
I’m curious how these were being abused to cause them to bend?
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Hmmmm…Harbor Freight parallels…
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You still have to abuse even a HF parallel to bend a parallel. All force should be downward.
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New wavy parallels. Do we know who did it?
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I had a dream I bent all of the parallels on accident, they were made of some REALLY soft aluminum and knowing how strong I am they just went crunch lol. I didn’t bend any real life ones though!
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Wavy parallels ain’t cheap, so, y’know…had to make some @ Makerspace…
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Ahhh…I see they are “Made of high quality spring steel, hardened, stress relieved, and precision ground”. That’s good.
Smart money is still on the DMS Nice Things Destruction SIG.
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They ain’t a SIG for lack of membership…
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they would probably have to have been put perpendicular into the vise and squeezed.
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I agree that is probably the mode - but what the heck were they trying to do. Bent it, put it back without notifying anyone.
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and that’s why we can’t have nice things. 
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