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Title: Hello from mid-Wales
Post by: Raggle on July 22, 2009, 06:57:42 PM: Hi all, just drifted over here from HMEM

If anything ever gets made, here is where it happens
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tuppence/2421277909/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tuppence/2421277909/)

That pic was taken on the day of erection and is a little misleading. The garden gnome in the doorway is not to scale.

In there now are 2 Taig lathes, 2 Unimat SLs, a Super Adept and a Goodell-Pratt 700 lathe.
(just hope this is the way to post a pic)

I live in Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Powys.

Ray
Title: Re: Hello from mid-Wales
Post by: sbwhart on July 22, 2009, 07:02:40 PM: Welcome aboard the cube :borg: Ray

Sounds like you've got some good bits of kit there,

what sort of thing are you into ?. When you've settled yourself in some pic of your projects :proj: will be greatly appreciated

:worthless:

Have fun

Stew
Title: Re: Hello from mid-Wales
Post by: bogstandard on July 22, 2009, 07:08:42 PM: Creoso Ray,

Thats as good as it gets from me, I will now revert to English, my first language.

All that machinery, and what do you want to do with it? Any ideas?

I am sure that if you can think of something, someone on here should be able to help you out if you need it.

Just dive or butt in wherever you feel happy to do so, and start to enjoy yourself.

Bogs
Title: Re: Hello from mid-Wales
Post by: Brass_Machine on July 22, 2009, 10:44:09 PM: Hiya Ray!

Welcome to the collective :borg:

Ralph did a great POST (http://madmodder.net/index.php?topic=607.0) on posting pictures. Check that to get some good ideas on posting pictures. Either way, nice shop. Love the guard cat. Got a soft spot for Wales...

Can't wait to see what you do!

Eric
Title: Re: Hello from mid-Wales
Post by: spuddevans on July 23, 2009, 02:13:33 AM: Hi Ray, welcome to the best forum on the interweb :mmr:

It wont be long til you've caught :proj:

Tim
Title: Re: Hello from mid-Wales
Post by: Bernd on July 23, 2009, 09:03:29 AM: Welcome Ray,

Always nice to have a new memeber added to the collective. :borg:

With all that equipment I'm sure you've got to have some projects underway or at least in mind. Many of use here have :proj: and can't even finish one project before begining the next one.

So pull up a chair and join in the fun because :mmr: and :offtopic:'s are ok at the Watercooler. :headbang:

Regards,
Bernd
Title: Re: Hello from mid-Wales
Post by: Gerhard Olivier on July 23, 2009, 11:31:27 AM: Welcome Ray

Im a infreqent visitor here but nearly your naybour - I'm from Ludlow

What's your interest?
Gerhard
Title: Re: Hello from mid-Wales
Post by: Darren on July 23, 2009, 12:23:32 PM: Hi Ray,

Another from Wales, well that makes you No2 as far as I know.....welcome and hope you have fun in your shed. :wave:

Tall shed...!!
Title: Re: Hello from mid-Wales
Post by: Raggle on July 23, 2009, 01:31:17 PM: Coo, 7 replies already. And there was me thinking, "they'll all be asleep, or in their sheds/shops"

A current project is a variation of Mklotz's Dremel mount

http://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/index.php?topic=414.0 (http://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/index.php?topic=414.0)

but mine ain't a real Dremel and the more I think about it, the more I revise it. Only cure for that is to build it. I only considered it in the first place because I have some nice 1/2" square stainless(?) bar that I saved from a litho printing m/c I scrapped. The "good reason" is same as Marv's, for creating tooling from 1/8" sq HSS. This small size is quite appropriate to my machines, the biggest being the Taig. IF it ever gets finished I'll do a show and tell (with piccies)

Bogs, Diolch yn fawr for the Croeso - there it ends, I'm a transported Black Country man. Among the ex-printing machine junk I have the hand lever of a prehistoric guillotine and have detected the possible presence of 2 or 3 Paddleducks cylinder blocks hiding in there. Wonderfully seasoned cast iron with NO hard spots or blowholes in the short end from which I made an endmill holder.

My main interest is IC engines with compression ignition high on the list.

Darren. I suppose Ralph is No1. Who is No6? I am not a number, I am a free man ...

Ray
Title: Re: Hello from mid-Wales
Post by: bogstandard on July 23, 2009, 04:30:26 PM: Ray,

You lost me after the 'Bogs'.

I could just imagine you speaking Welsh with a broad black country accent. I spent my last ten working years at Telford, amongst the displaced from Wolverhampton and the local area. I hardly understood a word they said.

You can't go wrong with Marv's little bits of tooling, and like me, he only makes tooling if he has a need for it, but what he does design and make, work well.

I don't live too far up the M6 from the 'Black Country' at Crewe.

Bogs
Title: Re: Hello from mid-Wales
Post by: Divided he ad on July 24, 2009, 03:03:35 AM: Evening Ray :wave:

There are at least 4 of us living in Wales and I suspect we are mostly imports too? :)

After that huge list of machinery you're going to have to post some project pic's somewhere :worthless: :D

I assume you've been lurking for a bit? but if not, take your time, look around a bit...... You're bound to fine something interesting on here :nrocks:

Ralph. :borg:
Title: Re: Hello from mid-Wales
Post by: Stilldrillin on July 24, 2009, 03:27:00 AM: Mornin` Ray!

Welcome to the collective. :wave:

It`s nice `ere...... :thumbup:

David D
Title: Re: Hello from mid-Wales
Post by: Darren on July 24, 2009, 03:37:49 AM: Quote from: Divided he ad on July 24, 2009, 03:03:35 AM

There are at least 4 of us living in Wales and I suspect we are mostly imports too? :)

Sorry Ralph, I was forgetting you are in Wales.... :thumbup:
Title: Re: Hello from mid-Wales
Post by: CrewCab on July 24, 2009, 01:56:53 PM: Quote from: Divided he ad on July 24, 2009, 03:03:35 AM
There are at least 4 of us living in Wales

So that's about 1/2 the population then ::) ................... welcome aboard Ray

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