Hello from a land down under

[Peter HoerleinParticipant @peterhoerlein37724]

G’Day from Australia.  I registered some time back but have not posted.  A member did help me out with some information on the Stent Tool and cutter grinder that I was restoring which was very good.  My father passed away a few years back and I inherited all his machine tools include a Myford super 7 and an RF45 clone milling machine.  Dad was a model engineer most of his life and I still have some of his ME magazines from the 50’s.  I was bit of  disappointment as I did not take to model engineering as I was mostly interested in electronics.  I was not sure what to do with Dads tools until I stumbled across Stephan Gotteswinters channel and that inspired me to have a go and since then I have been hooked.  I have made a couple of Stephans shop tools and and added a DRO, quill feed and depth stop to the mill and a DRO to the lathe.

I have started fixing up some of Dads old models including a Vulcan beam engine and I am currently working on LBSC’s Kiddies fire engine.  I will post some pictures in the work in progress forum.

I hope to work up the courage to attempt a Locomotive some day maybe a Simplex.

Regards

Peter

[Taf_PembsParticipant @taf_pembs]

Welcome (back!) Peter.

As you are probably reading, you will have to bear with the site, they are apparently trying to sort it but it really is poor at the moment. It is a struggle but is much better than it was a month or so ago..

👍🍻

[Howard LewisParticipant @howardlewis46836]

Welcome to the Forum

You are not the only Forum member in Oz, but they may not be near you. (I know that there are a couple near Cairns)

Hope that you succeed in all your restorations.

Howard

[Harry WilkesParticipant @harrywilkes58467]

Welcome to the forum

H

[noel shelleyParticipant @noelshelley55608]

Welcome Peter, the site is a bit difficult at the moment but we live in hope it will improve. The modern model engineer is likely to find a knowledge of electronics very useful. Good luck with the models you have. Noel.

[Peter HoerleinParticipant @peterhoerlein37724]

Thanks for the response. The forum has improved greatly since before Christmas.  It shut down completely for some time but when it re-started it was extremely slow and clunky.  Having worked with computer system in my professional working life I can understand the pain the forum owners are going though.  It can be extremely frustrating at times.

It is good to know that there are a few other Aussies out there.  I live in the Ipswich area so a bit of a way from Cairns. I hope you survived Jasper OK.

Noel,

Mixing electronics with mechanics is very rewarding.  I made quill feed using an Arduino as described by Stephan Gotteswinter.  And you must have a great wife to buy you a Sieg C6 for Christmas:)

 

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