Hi Lads,
I have a special request to see if people would help make a fellow machinist's 80th Birthday a special one. A friend of mine and John Doubleboost's called Stanley is 80 on this Sunday 14th Valentines day. He is a keen machinist and has been involved in making small steam engines of various types and has a nice well equiped workshop joined onto the back of his house.
Stanley's shed
Stanley is a genuine nice guy who does a shift in 'his shed' almost every day. Myself and John have been given various bits of tooling etc by Stanley and have also managed to get him various machines and tooling too as he is still improving his workshop at 79 yrs old lol.
To show what type of person Stanley is. He has decided he will build two horizontal mill type engines as 'Get Well' gifts, one for John's wife Deb who as some will know is recovering from breast cancer treatment and the other for my partner Sarah who has also been very ill after emergency abdominal surgery just after new year, glad to say both our ladies are on the mend. Stanley is supplying everything except the castings and will take no payment for the rest of the materials.
The engines will be similar to this one he has made from John's castings recently.
Stanley posts on a local forum to where he lives in the UK, showing what he gets up to in his shed and general matters of interest to his locality. I will post a link but only after his birthday as I don't want his surprise spoilt. Wendy who runs the forum Stanley frequents wants to do a surprise post for his birthday with as many people as possible sending in a photo saying happy birthday so when he logs on the morning of the 14th he will be surprised with a post about his 80th and photos of both people he knows and I hope fellow machinists from all over the place whishing him a happy 80th birthday.
We would like anyone who is willing, to send Wendy a photo before 9pm on 13th Feb UK time. Something like this.
Stanley is a big machine tool fan so a photo of either you standing at any machine you have with a sign , saying happy birthday Stanley, happy 80th Stanley or similar and maybe where you are from in the world. Or if you are a bit shy and do not want to be in the photo yourself just the sign hanging on a machine would do the job too. I am sure he would be chuffed to bits to see fellow machinists he has never met wishing him a happy 80th.
He is doing a very kind and generous thing building two engines from scratch as 'get well' gifts so John and myself would like to try to surprise him on his 80th so anyone that can assist will be greately appreciated by us and I am sure Stanley too. Please send photos to wendy@lbhfarm.co.uk by 9pm GMT Sat 13th Feb so she can add it to their forum overnight ready for an unsuspecting young Stanley to log in in the morning of the 14th.
Thank You to anyone that can help.
Cheers Mick & John.
