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Title: Hello From West Lincolnshire England
Post by: SKIPRAT on September 12, 2009, 05:55:56 PM
Hi guys
just joined the group and i am a member of HMEM as well and thought it was time i introduced my self my name is Paul i live in the little market town of Gainsborough Lincolnshire central England.I have been involved with machining and maintenence off and on for about 40 years i did my training with Marshall sons & co here in Gainsborough all you steam fans out there may have heard of Marshall traction engines and steam engines sadly the works does not exist no more its site is now a shopping centre.I have been hankering for a lathe for years then i saw a lathe for sale at the right price the other month so i went out and bought it to go with the other machinery. i have allways been interested in things electrical and mechanical cheers Paul
Title: Re: Hello From West Lincolnshire England
Post by: spuddevans on September 12, 2009, 06:03:26 PM
Hi Paul :wave: welcome to the collective  :borg:

I look forward to seeing what you do, please share pictures of what projects you do as  :worthless:


Tim
Title: Re: Hello From West Lincolnshire England
Post by: PhiberOptix on September 12, 2009, 06:16:41 PM
Hi Paul

and Welcome to MadModder you will see a lot of familiar faces from HMEM makes me thinks there is more forums like this we dont know about yet
there is a lot of us brits on here more so than HMEM (or so it seems).

It feels strange here , me welcoming folk, when I am a newbie here myself

Regards
Andy

(East Lincolnshire)  :D



Title: Re: Hello From West Lincolnshire England
Post by: chuck foster on September 12, 2009, 07:02:39 PM
welcome paul  :wave:

im fairly new he myself, and i like what i see..............these guys are a great bunch.  :ddb: :ddb:

chuck  :wave:
Title: Re: Hello From West Lincolnshire England
Post by: Brass_Machine on September 12, 2009, 07:51:25 PM
Welcome Paul! I hope you fixed your email addy?

anyway welcome to the collective :borg:

Eric
Title: Re: Hello From West Lincolnshire England
Post by: sbwhart on September 13, 2009, 01:43:30 AM
Welcome aboard the cube Paul  :borg:

I've heard of Marshals, sad that a lot of great companies have gone to the wall, and shopping malls built on the site. Is steam you interest, or do you just like messing with machines in general, anyway this is a great site for catching  :proj: but what ever you do don't forget the pics.

Have fun

Stew
Title: Re: Hello From West Lincolnshire England
Post by: SKIPRAT on September 13, 2009, 06:24:08 AM
Hi All
"Thanks for the welcome" i have been reading through the posts on here and find them very interesting! as for answering stews question i mess about with anything mechanical or electrical . I have a couple of interesting elderly machines here that i have saved from the scrapman and i will describe them with the obligatory pictures in due course.the reason i have an interest in model engineering is that now i have got a lathe i am going to build a steam engine to see if i still have the skills learnt in the past " different working with smaller machines and components" also obtaining recently a lathe will help with making bits for antennas etc for my other hobby Ham Radio (callsign in my signature). so it remains to see just what i can make and what contribution i can make to this forum ,enough waffling from me

Cheers Paul
Title: Re: Hello From West Lincolnshire England
Post by: Stilldrillin on September 16, 2009, 04:02:17 AM
Hi Paul!

Big welcome to you from Derbyshire.

Join in. Show pics. Enjoy!  :thumbup:

David D
Title: Re: Hello From West Lincolnshire England
Post by: dsquire on September 16, 2009, 07:01:34 PM
SKIPRAT

Welcome to the forum and a great bunch of guys. You will definitly catch  :proj: and from there on its all good.

 :worthless: as that will save you many 1000's of words.

Have fun and enjoy. :mmr:

Cheers :beer:

Don