Bristol Jupiter Build

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Just posted on MEM, a link to the build of a Bristol Jupiter, well worth a look and an ideal way to spend your lunch break.

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

[Martin CottrellParticipant @martincottrell21329]

Hi Jason

An excellent link, this guy's work is quite simply exquisite! His workshop makes mine look like a Chinese scrapyard. It's left me feeling jealous and full of admiration in equal measure!

Regards, Martin.

[Derek999Participant @derek999]

I read this item in absolute awe, admiration and, I have to admit, a level of jealousy.

There have been other builds I have followed similarly, and all served to show what wonderfully capable engineers we have amongst our ranks. I believe that our engineers made Great Britain great, but that our failure to train their replacements could ultimately mark our downfal.

When will this country wake up to what is happening here, or indeed, what is not? It saddens me when I hear of the lack of engineering training in our schools and universities, who are selling off the equipment which WE paid for, it seems, on the altar of the HSE and their lunatic antics. I retired recently after years of annoying and frustrating arguments over manufacturing procedures when we had accident free record.

All I can say is that I am grateful to be at this end of my time here than the other!

We will soon become a nation which buys everything but makes little except for the smaller,dedicated few companies who continue despite the ultimate pirating of their efforts.

All this makes wish that I had trained as an engineer properly when younger, but I am enjoying enormously the opportunity to do it ( rather more slowly) now, in my later years, arthritis and back problems permitting.

This magazine has become at the same time, my teacher,encyclopedia and inspiration, and my thanks go to all who contribute and produce both it and this forum.

Keep it coming!

Derek

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