John Stevenson

Wishing you all the best John.

I don’t know John but I’ve read many of his helpful posts on this and other forums and wish him well.

John, I have admired your contributions to this and other forums, always practical, down to earth, basic even and without the non-essential frills. You obviously don't do politically correct or suffer fools gladly, good man. Sound judgement. You would have made an excellent ships engineer back in the day when we still had a merchant navy and I would have been proud to have sailed with you. Wish you all the best and expect to read your continuing contributions on here and elsewhere again very soon.

Cheers,

Chris

PS. Can't believe Ketan still owes you that quid, after all we all on here have spent there, piker................

John,

Get well soon. I miss reading your Bodgers posts. My old man was a time served engineer who could make anything on lathe or mill and get things working, but lots of your tasks and fixes (don't like to call them bodges) would have put him to shame.

Hope to see you posting soon.

Colin.

PS The Myford 33/34 gears are great now need another set.

This one's dedicated to you, John ...

A celebration of the ten-thousandth

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On the occasion of my ten-thousandth posting, I would like to share this:

It's a simple photograph of one ten-thousandth of a metre [*]
This cropped, but unmodified, image is 1000 pixels wide, which splits the outer graduation lines.

To a good approximation therefore; each pixel represents one ten-thousandth of a millimetre

[i.e. one tenth of a micrometre] [a.k.a. 'a tenth of a micron']

It pleases me that, using readily available & reasonably priced equipment, it is quite practical to measure to this resolution. ... Obviously, I cannot certify the accuracy or temperature-stability, but; for Bodgers, near enough is good enough.

Please get well enough to argue the toss ... it's more fun than rivet-counting.

MichaelG.

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[*] part of a Carl Zeiss 'stage micrometer' photographed using a 10x objective and 3.4x photo-eyepiece

... full frame is 4000x3000 pixels, representing 0.4mm of the scale.

Best wishes to John Stevenson. The first time I became familiar with this name John Stevenson when I searched for "how to create gear wheel cutter" in the internet. He is an inspiring teacher for younger generations in model engineer. Read many great tips he had written in the forum.

Hope the doctors can bodge you up so Debs can get a few more years service out of you.

Hope you are back up and about soon

Jason

I got to know John a few years back, when he grossly undercharged me for some bits for my relatively unknown lathe. Since then, we've exchanged sporadic e-mails & forum posts/replies (mostly at Madmodder) where he's always had sage advice, albeit often blunter than one of my drill bits. Which is pretty damn blunt.

I found out about his cancer (careless b@st@rd) a while back, but wasn't aware of his condition since then as he's never replied to any of the e-mails I didn't write... so it was with a sense of foreboding that I read the message with his name as the title. So imagine my relief to see that the old curmudgeon is still around.

The infection is obviously not good. That'll teach you to never wash your bl**dy cups up eh? So damn it man, pull yourself together and get over it, so we can lock horns again over some stupid machining operation I'm trying to do. Especially since your lovely wife is from my side of the country, I am looking forward to showing off (ahem) my workshop & shooting the breeze over an oily brew in a filthy mug (I've got one waiting here for you, it hasn't been cleaned in 20 years, I'll have to evict Barry the Mold first though).

Get well soon, fella, looking forward to seeing your acerbic presence on the forums again!

PS: I owe you a tenner, and you have to be here to collect it, OK?

Good luck & keep the antibiotics flowing.

Cheers,

Ade.

I only 'know' John through his posts. Thought provoking and too the point. Get well soon John you are sorely missed.

Best wishes John from another John down under.

Get well soon, someone else needs to keep the CVA flag flying.

I only know John through the posts but always liked his helpful direct opinions. Get well soon

Lionel

I have always been cheered up by John's ability to burst a bubble in the most amusing way. I hope his caustic wit will be back with us soon.

Doug

Hope all goes well for you. I had cancer 6 years ago and so far I am ok.

Best possible regards

Brian

A Nottingham man of great charm,

Whose innards 'ad suffered some 'arm,

Bodged a fix, what a wonder,

And lived to an' undred

And said to the Queen "Thank you Ma'am!"

Nice one Simon

I'm proud to count John as a friend over many years in both the virtual and physical worlds. I'm thinking off you mate - I even gave the CVA a pat for you this afternoon.

Charles

Only met John the once at Doncaster a couple of years ago when he was good enough to sharpen a few end mills for me. They're still in the tobacco tin at the moment to remind me of what my own efforts should look like.

I first came across him well before the inception of this forum, on the old model engineering usenet group, and gained a deal of respect from this wide knowledge then.

Wishing you all the best for a speedy recovery.

Bill

(the ugly bu88er with a beard, who passed on a couple of spare core drills a @ Doncaster)

Edited By peak4 on 22/10/2017 12:48:32

Come on John, you can knock this on the head.

I'm waiting to mark your homework!!

My best wishes

Woody