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