A machinist fixes a massive crack in an old cast iron engine block with a drill, a handful of bolts, and a tube of red ...

But no – [Carl Edvard Johansson] got a patent for his “Gauge Block Sets for Precision Measurement” in 1901. As [AvE] shows us with a video on how gauge blocks can be “wrung” together ...

So when Caleb sent me this reel of Syracuse Crank & Machine stitching (yes, stitching) an old cracked industrial engine block ...