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This topic has 9 replies, 7 voices, and was last updated 1 June 2018 at 09:41 by SillyOldDuffer.

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31 May 2018 at 16:15 #356016
Alan Heffernan
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Joining in from L.A. That is Lower Alabama gulf coast of the US.

I am a hobby machinist and fortunate to have a decent shop and equipment kit. I recently began to look into clock making and found this forum.

Thanks for being here and look forward to being a member.
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31 May 2018 at 16:15 #40329
Alan Heffernan
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31 May 2018 at 19:15 #356025
Brian Wood
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Welcome aboard Alan,

Nice to have some more representation from the far side of the States, I am sure others will join me in saying that you will probably find answers here to questions you may run into.

I'm not into clocks being a machine tool man, but there are plenty on this forum who are.

Regards

Brian
31 May 2018 at 19:40 #356026
Brian H
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Welcome Alan, your introduction had me fooled, the only L.A. that I know off is a city in Nevada!

I'm not very knowledgable on clocks 'though I have made an English Regulator clock to a design by John Wilding.
Any questions, just ask, someone on here will know the answer.

Brian ( in the very middle of England)

Edited By BDH on 31/05/2018 19:40:47
31 May 2018 at 19:52 #356031
Bob Youldon
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Welcolme Alan,

I thought by LA you meant Littlehampton!

Bob ( in Sussex)
31 May 2018 at 19:54 #356032
Alan Heffernan
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Gents, sorry for the joke on location on my first post. Here in the States when one says LA, we usually think of Los Angeles, California. So those of us from the gulf coast area of the state of Alabama, we say LA meaning lower Alabama as a joke.

Thanks for the welcomes and I look forward to finding out a bit more on clocks here.
31 May 2018 at 20:01 #356034
Brian H
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OOps, my geography was a bit off there, the city in Nevada is of course Las Vegas!

Brian
31 May 2018 at 21:13 #356043
Neil Wyatt
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Welcome to the forum Alan.
1 June 2018 at 09:11 #356069
Chris Evans 6
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Welcome aboard Alan, motorcycles are my interest but many on here are clock builders.
1 June 2018 at 09:41 #356071
SillyOldDuffer
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Posted by Alan Heffernan on 31/05/2018 19:54:21:

Gents, sorry for the joke on location on my first post. …

Don't apologise for the joke, more the better!

It's true that geographical humour doesn't always travel well. Birmingham (England), a place not to be confused with Birmingham (Alabama), has more canals than Venice (Italy). In consequence Birmingham (England), a sprawling commercial city in the Black Country, is known to us Brits as 'the Venice of the North'.

Sadly, no Italian ever calls Venice 'the Birmingham of the South'!

Try the joke out in Geneva (Alabama) and see if anyone laughs. It doesn't work in Switzerland…

Dave

Edited By SillyOldDuffer on 01/06/2018 09:42:25
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