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latheman:
See, tri-lingual! English, French - well sort of, and er... Well I'm sure you can guess.
Ok A bit about me.
Ex-grammar school, apprenticeship at a very large telecomms company from which I took early retirement a good few years ago. Did a bit of taxi-minibus driving then gave up all forms of paid employment.
Did a bit, not much, engineering type stuff at school, then none at work, but then decided about 20 years ago in conjunction with No.1 son that we needed new wheels for a 00 gauge loco. This, of course, meant a lathe, and well, here we are still learning. For those of you who know what exponential curve and time constants are, I reckon I'm about 0.1CR up the learning curve. Possibly 0.2CR.
Equipment is a Warco 220 lathe. Warco MiniMill, NuTool cH10 drill, Clarke 5" D/E grinder plus all the usual bits and pieces. Interest is in teaching myself to use the equipment - not easy when all you can do is read and ask questions, and to make additional tooling. At the moment I've more or less just completed a major strip down, clean up, re-lubricate and readjust of the lathe. Amazing how much better it is, but it still needs more. The minimill also requires a lot doing to it, a heck of a lot. Workshop is the cold and draughty garage.
How did I get here? Well you can blame Bog-Standard for that - he posted something on the "cough-cough" forum which lead me to here, liked what I saw, and so here I am.
That'll do for now.
Regards,
Latheman aka Peter G. Shaw
Brass_Machine:
Bon Jour Peter!
Comment ça va?
Welcome to the collective :borg:
Watcha into?
Eric
spuddevans:
Hi there Peter :wave: welcome to the club, pull up a chair and join in the fun.
Tim
Bogstandard:
Peter,
Welcome to the anything (well almost) goes forum. :nrocks:
You will find on other forums that they tend to get a bit too technical for anyone to understand, here we tend to use just plain English (but sometimes it has to be a bit of tech jargon), so almost anyone can follow along and enjoy the multitude of projects that go on here.
So show us what you get up to, and you will be guaranteed an audience.
Just follow what you like to, step in and ask a question if you want to and help if you can, but always try to enjoy it.
Bogs
HS93:
yes welcome, as Bogs says can be less Technical I for one have a selection of hammers and bogs has his shifting spanners, I have even seen some waterpump pliers in Pictures at times but not seen any stilsons, well not in my pictures as they dont make them for BA nuts
:ddb: Peter :ddb:
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