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VOL 35 No.6
FEB 2005 THE MODELLER
WEB SITE: www.tsme.ca TSME CHAT LINE: tsme@yahoogroups.com
Now we are into it – winter whiteness and all that goes with it! This should provide you with good reason to be in the workshop so that you can get cracking on your next project, or finish the one you started years ago ! Let’s see what you have been up to – bring what you have been working on to our next meeting – share this with your fellow members on:
FRIDAY 11 FEB 2005 AT 8.00pm; the usual place
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FOR THIS FRIDAY EVENING’S MEETING, YOU CAN EXPECT TO HEAR FROM:
Our Guest from the CNIB, who will talk about how to make tactile textbooks for visually impaired readers. The CNIB are looking for volunteers to help with the production of these type of books
BERT deKAT who’ll bring in and demonstrate his Small Drill Press with micro-controlled power feed,
MURRAY AXFORD has made a Decorative Solenoid Engine – he will explain its working
JOHN CHAPPELL tell us about some of the hints he has learnt from peaking into Santa’s Workshop last year, and
DON CARR has been making up Boiler Piping. Don will give some pointers on how to do this work.
And, If you have some Technical Model Engineering questions – bring them along, and if time permits we’ll have a question and answer session
If you have a project you are currently working on, or recently finished – please bring it along and we will do all we can to fit your item into the program.
WHAT’S UP & COMING : MEETING
DATES 11 March, 8 April, 13May, 10 June @
UP COMING EVENTS:
WOOD SHOW at the
JAMES WATT DAY. At The
HERITAGE WEEK LECTURE. 22 February
2005. 7.30pm. At THE
Also at THE
LIBRARY The book auction from the December meeting made $156.00 for TSME. If you have any suggestions for books please let Gerald Gardiner know.
IN CASE YOU MISSED – THE JANUARY MEETING…….with thanks to Art Gordon for taking these notes
GERRY REED gave an update on AL GOULDBURN’S condition. Al is being moved to a long term facility – location not known at the time of writing – and he would welcome cards, letters and e-mails to help keep up his spirits.
GERRY REED described the techniques used for marking out our work and how these were influenced over the years by the magazine Model Engineer. One tool, little seen in industry now, are Tool Maker’s Buttons. Gerry explained that while they could be obtained as sets from suppliers they were often made up by the tradesman to suit the job in hand. Tool Maker’s Buttons are either attached to the work by a screw, the clearance allowing for some adjustment, or in a closely reamed hole. The Buttons then provide a datum for subsequent operations. As an extreme example, a method of laying out a 33 hole circle for an Index plate was discussed but the conclusion was that using x and y co-ordinates was more practical.
KEVIN CLOSE, a welcome returnee to the fold, showed the hardware he is making for a 5 string electric headless Bass he is constructing. The device is in place of the worm and wheel used to tension the strings on a “conventional” instrument and will be located at the bridge. The work is being done on a Taig miniature lathe equipped with a milling attachment. While not ideal most problems met with are being overcome.
After studying Scraping JEFF KINGMA has come to the conclusion that it is an acquired art that requires considerable patience. It is another skill that is rarely seen in modern industry having been replaced by improved machining but still is useful in the final finishing of plain bearings and surfaces. Jeff described the various types of hand scrapers and their uses, as well as the other tools required such as reference surfaces, hones/stones, bluing compounds, squares, etc. The presentation concluded with a brief demonstration by Gerry Reed.
ERNIE HILL is building a 4” scale Case Traction Engine and displayed the cylinder, trunk guide, crank and fly wheel assembly. Despite the bearings (Babbit) not having yet been scraped - they will be done after assembly with the boiler – it ran well in both directions on as little as 5 psi of air. Ernie tells us that the boiler has been designed and detail drawings are being prepared. Because of its size it will come under the B & PV Act.
KYLE SIMMONS has been organizing the shop and showed some shelf kits from IKEA. Nine or five drawer sets are $9 each.
The meeting closed with an open discussion on some of those tricky problems we all seem to run into sooner or later.
www.littlemachineshop.com They have some deals offered to Model Engineer Club members.
WANTED: by DON CARR: About 15” long piece of Soft Copper Tubing – 7/32” O. dia x 5/32” I. dia
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WANTED: by Bob McDonald: Any Model Engineering Mags, Books on Model Engineering and Shop Practice.
Treasurer Art Gordon will accept payment by cash or cheque at the meetings, or in the mail.
$30.00 for the coming year. Of course, if there are any difficulties, a confidential word in Art’s ear will take care of things. We don’t like to lose a member for any reason.
If you are joining as a New Member, please provide your: name, address, phone number and e-mail address if you have one, and whether you would like to receive our newsletter, THE MODELLER by email, or by post. We hope to get a new Membership List out soon and this will only be available to paid up members – so get thee to the cash or cheque toot de sweet, if you ain’t already done so !
MEMBERSHIP LIST: We will endeavour to have this out for March – if you have not paid up for 2005 by then – you won’t be on the list and won’t receive one either!