A Geordie in Lincolnshire

[Bicycle Repair Man]

Good evening ladies and gentlemen,

I assume there are some ladies and at least some gentlemen in this parish !
I am a Geordie living in sunny Lincolnshire. I spend most of my time building custom bicycle frames for the discerning enthusiast, despite trying to retire. People just keep turning up and enticing me with fistfuls of universal shopping vouchers and t'would be churlish to refuse to take it . When not making, repairing or painting bike frames I make knives and sticks (the walking variety) help with training our 5 gundogs and indulge my passion for blasting clay out of the air (with limited success  ) I have a rather nice workshop here on our smallholding wherein resides a Colchester Master 2500, a Bridgeport mill, a Super 7, a Kerry Super 8 drill, an Eagle surface grinder, an ancient power hacksaw, and various woodworking machines. I also have a Lincoln tig welder, oxy acetylene gear and a paint shop with a spray booth and stoving oven. My justification for all this kit is that I earn a living by using it but I love playing with it all.
Pictures will follow a) if anybody is interested and b) if I can work out how to, technology having outstripped my limited knowledge of computerise.
You all seem to be a bit mad so I should fit in reasonably well, unlike some of the more serious forums !!

Cheers

Dave Yates

[philf]

Dave,

Welcome.

Pictures are always welcome.

There's a guide to posting pictures here:

http://madmodder.net/index.php/topic,607.0.html

This method requires you to host the files online e.g. Photobucket

The alternative is to just attach picture files in .jpg format.

It's best to post photos at a 640 x 480 resolution (or 800 x 600 max) otherwise viewers have to scroll to see the photos and will soon get fed up.

There's also a topic on resizing photos:

http://madmodder.net/index.php/topic,4735.0.html

I once had a go at frame building but chickened out at the silver soldering stage and got a professional frame builder (Neil Shankland if you know him) to finish it for me. I still have a set of 531 tubes in the cellar.

Cheers.

Phil.

[DMIOM]

hi Dave,

I'm sure you'll fit in well here, especially with a name like that! 

Dave (Isle of Man)

[awemawson]

Hi Dave, let me add my welcome to the other voices 

Sounds like a nice set up that you have there - I look forward to seeing pictures of your equipment and projects when the time comes.

As Phil says 640 x 480 is a good size compromise between vastness and detail, and if you upload them to the forum they will be there as long as the forum survives, whereas if hosted elsewhere threads tend to become meaningless as the pictures disappear as links become obsolete.

[krv3000]

hi and welcome

[jb3cx]

Hi and welcome Dave ,long way from Whitley Bay Area ,if I remember correctly,
Regards Peter w

[Bicycle Repair Man]

Hi and welcome Dave ,long way from Whitley Bay Area ,if I remember correctly,
Regards Peter w

Hi Peter

You do indeed remember correctly, what is the connection? I moved away from the area in 2001 and moved down here in 2005.

Dave Yates

[Biggles]

Hi Dave and Welcome, I’m sure you’re not the only one who likes blasting things; Looking forward to your pictures. 

[Eugene]

Never mind t'injineerin' what about the gun dogs?

With five you're either picking up or beating, or perhaps both? I've just hung up the whistle and stick after 35 years of gun dog work, and I'm down to the last Lab, who like me is old and knackered. I was picking up big time until a couple of years ago, plus working dogs for my own gun.

Eug

[jb3cx]

Evening Dave ,I bought some equipment from you in the mid 1990 s prior to your move ,can't even remember what it was ,but I will always remember the fantastic workmanship on the bike frames,and the price ,at the time a one off frame made by you cost more than what I paid for my van
Peter w

[Bicycle Repair Man]

Never mind t'injineerin' what about the gun dogs?

With five you're either picking up or beating, or perhaps both? I've just hung up the whistle and stick after 35 years of gun dog work, and I'm down to the last Lab, who like me is old and knackered. I was picking up big time until a couple of years ago, plus working dogs for my own gun.

Eug

Hi Eugene

Quite right, both!, my wife is the picker up I am the beater and we both shoot when the opportunity presents itself. I used to do a bit of picking up with her but lost my dog about 6 months ago. We got onto a new shoot last year and it worked really well with her picking up and me beating. Only one car needed !  We have 3 Labs and two Welsh Springers. We spend all the season working on various shoots and the rest of the year doing working tests and Game Fairs, I fit in work where I can

Cheers

Dave Y

[Bicycle Repair Man]

Evening all

I shall try posting some pics. First one is a collection of sticks I have made, second one (if this works) is a collection of knives I have made and the third is my Myford Super 7

[Bicycle Repair Man]

Now then,

Having established the principle  here are some pics of a project completed last year. Belt grinders are expensive bits of kit so I did what most of you do, made one. I have always believed that inside every rusty piece of steel there is a shiny piece trying to get out so I started of with what is in pics 1 and 2. Chopped it into various bits with the power hacksaw,welded the bits together, skimmed the ends off square, welded some more bits on. Stopped and had a coffee, then started marking out the quadrant plate for the rollers, then drilled and reamed the centre hole to mount it on rotary table to mill the curved slot.
Next installment tomorrow as its getting past my bedtime !!!

( mods, if you want to move this to a more suitable place, feel free)

Cheers for now

Dave Y

[edward]

As a keen cyclist and lover of the steel frame machine, Any chance of a frame pic to drool over?

[John Rudd]

Dave,
Have you joined a forum elsewhere with the same nickname?
You seem familiar?

Anyway welcome from me too...

[Bicycle Repair Man]

As a keen cyclist and lover of the steel frame machine, Any chance of a frame pic to drool over?

I shall do some this afternoon, got my own bikes and a couple of customers frames.

Cheers

Dave Y

[Bicycle Repair Man]

Dave,
Have you joined a forum elsewhere with the same nickname?
You seem familiar?

Anyway welcome from me too...

Hi John

I am on  the British Blades forum and YACF with the same handle.

Cheers

Dave Y

[malbenbut]

WelcomeDave

I remember when you were trying to give a Milnes lathe away for free, I think it finally went to Tom Reed from Catterick.

MBB

[malbenbut]

Sorry duplicate thread

[edward]

As a keen cyclist and lover of the steel frame machine, Any chance of a frame pic to drool over?

I shall do some this afternoon, got my own bikes and a couple of customers frames.

Cheers

Dave Y

lovely, thank you. Currently I have 3 steel machines, but all Taiwan built (admittedly one with reynolds tubing), one a 'Plug'  CX machine and two Genesis road bikes. I can't really justify a hand built job now with all the other demands on my cash....

I'll be honest I still hanker after my 1990 Condor 531 frame hand built at the shop on the Grays Inn road, but that was written off by some plonker in a BMW and I've mourned its loss ever since.

[Bicycle Repair Man]

WelcomeDave

I remember when you were trying to give a Milnes lathe away for free, I think it finally went to Tom Reed from Catterick.

MBB

Absolutely correct  what a memory, do you know if he still has it?  The lathe was in a bit of a sorry state but would have responded to a bit of tlc.

Cheers

 Dave Y

[Bicycle Repair Man]

Edward

Your steel Condor was actually made by me !! or at least by my company M Steel Cycles. We made all the steel Condors from 1982 until around 2004
Pictures tomorrow, need to reduce the size

Cheers

Dave Y

[Brass_Machine]

Hi Dave.

Welcome to the collective

Looking at your knives... the one on the right as you look at it. Can't really be sure from the photo.. but, Damascus?

Eric

[tom osselton]

Looks like it from here.

[Bicycle Repair Man]

Tom   Eric

It is indeed Damascus, a purchased blade that was simply a handle and sheath making exercise.  The one to the extreme left is the same, the rest are made from scratch. The one with the ebony handle and brass guard and end cap was forged on one of Owen Bush's courses, super 3 days knocking 7 kinds of s--t out of lumps of red hot steel

Cheers

Dave Y