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Title: Hello from Sunny Cambridge (UK)
Post by: pipemakermike on December 22, 2011, 12:22:51 PM

Hi
I have been an occasional guest here for a while so it is time to stop peeping over the fence and climb in<G>
I am a recently retired engineer/designer with 40 years of experience working in some of the design consultancies around Cambridge England.  I started out back in 1961 by serving a a 5 year scientific instrument making apprenticship at the Cambridge Instrument Company but I have actually spent most of my life on the drawing board and later in front of a CAD terminal.  I have always made things eversince I could walk and mostly built model aeroplanes in my youth (and dottage).  I am currently doing the detail design of a 2ft narrow gauge loco for the Lynton & Barnstaple railway in Devon, recreating the  Baldwin 2-4-2T LYN that ran on the line from 1898 until it was cutup in 1935.
I have a website where most of my interests are documented including a design log for the loco.
http://www.machineconcepts.co.uk/ (http://www.machineconcepts.co.uk/)

Title: Re: Hello from Sunny Cambridge (UK)
Post by: spuddevans on December 22, 2011, 12:29:56 PM

Hi there Mike :wave: welcome to Madmodders  :mmr:

sounds like you will fit right in here, we're glad to have you with us :thumbup:


Tim

Title: Re: Hello from Sunny Cambridge (UK)
Post by: Brass_Machine on December 22, 2011, 12:49:54 PM

Hiya Mike  :wave:

Welcome to the collective :borg:

Glad you finally jumped the fence!

Eric

Title: Re: Hello from Sunny Cambridge (UK)
Post by: -steves- on December 22, 2011, 01:29:24 PM

Awesome site you have there and that one you are working on looks really really great :thumbup: :clap: :clap: :clap:

Nice to see someone localish about too  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Hello from Sunny Cambridge (UK)
Post by: saw on December 22, 2011, 02:39:26 PM

Hi and welcome to us  :wave:

Title: Re: Hello from Sunny Cambridge (UK)
Post by: DaveH on December 22, 2011, 04:15:09 PM

Mike, :wave:

Hello and welcome

 :beer:
DaveH

Title: Re: Hello from Sunny Cambridge (UK)
Post by: doubleboost on December 24, 2011, 04:54:05 PM

Hi
Mike
Welcome to mad modders
John

Title: Re: Hello from Sunny Cambridge (UK)
Post by: PeterE on December 25, 2011, 06:10:29 AM

Hi and very welcome  :wave:

BR

/Peter

Title: Re: Hello from Sunny Cambridge (UK)
Post by: Divided he ad on December 25, 2011, 07:42:41 AM

Hi Mike, Welcome to the collective  :borg: 

reads like you have quite a good time making/repairing a lot of stuff, I especially like the large lathe to make small pipes  :lol:



See you around the pages  :wave:




Ralph.

Title: Re: Hello from Sunny Cambridge (UK)
Post by: AndyB on December 26, 2011, 06:31:49 AM

Hi Mike and welcome to the collective.

Assimilation is guaranteed  :borg:

Andy