John Stevenson

Here he is grinding my milling cutters at Doncaster in 2016:

Neil

That's absolutely fine - the "edit" option had gone away by the time I noticed the omission!

Regards,

Tony

RIP John , why do the good ones go before the dross?

Sue’s and my condolences to Deb’s and the family.

Edited By Ian Hewson on 24/10/2017 17:50:58

Edited By Ian Hewson on 24/10/2017 17:51:29

John's sad demise should make us all think about our own mortality and make the best use of the precious time we all have. Life is not a rehearsal and should be lived to the full, so grab every opportunity that life throws at you.

It was very nice to see a picture of John, a man I never met, but respected greatly.

Doug

I have not been on the forum for a while and had come back on to ask John when the Chinese CNC controller review he was writing was likely to be ready for publication.

I then saw this thread and feared the worst.

Reading through, initially my fears were set aside with hopes that John may yet recover and I would still be able to ask my question as some form of amusing chastisement, but as the thread progressed I eventually reached the news that he had sadly lost the fight.

I never had the pleasure of meeting him, but we did have a couple of exchanges on this forum on CNC related topics, and I always enjoyed reading any thread he had chosen to post a response to - every one brought a smile to my face.

My condolences to the Delectable Debs, friends and family - RIP John you will be sorely missed.

Tim Moores

Too true. I was shocked to find that John wasn't much older than me. I'm going to have to get my rear into high gear if I'm going to finish my traction engines before kicking the bucket.

Andrew

First met His Highness at Arrowgate yonks ago. Couldn't believe he wasn't Yorkshire bred with his sharp sense of humour. On one of his forays into Gods own county with Gert to buy some porcelain from Huddersfield got a message to "Put t' kettle on." Where are you said I? "Parked outside"

They came in for a cuppa and chin wag and after a while decided they were going for a "Pint and a pie" at a pub they'd noticed down on the border. That was three hours later, couldn't believe where the time had gone. Met again at the big "H", despite trying to escape, every time I turned round, like Connolly's proverbial "F*rt in a space suit," John was there. Managed that year to block one of the isles with a gathering of "Madmodders", John Rudd should remember and Boggy had acquired his electric Ferrari and proceeded to be an objectionable s*d trying to mow everybody down with it.

Last meeting was at the last Harrogate show, looked a bit weary then, but still lively conversation while grinding cutters on the moon lander. Not only will a lot of ME's regret him not being at the exhibition again, but wonder how many businesses in the Nottingham area will have to build in increased costs due to having to buy new and the attendant delay in delivery rather than rely on John's "Get the show back on the road" service?

Was a pleasure to meet and know a practical engineer, You will be sadly missed mate. Sincere condolences to Adam and the old family and Debs and his recent "new" one.

Ian Holdsworth.

Bet the awd bu**er reground and sharpened the reaper's scythe before he was allowed to use it.

Edited By Circlip on 25/10/2017 12:56:15

Absolutely gutted by this very sad loss.

I first came across John probably over ten years on uk.rec.me The group was being plagued by a disruptive troll and had been for some time. John decided enough was enough, posted the troll's real name, full home address and telephone number and signed off the post with a John type challenge. End of troll. How he tracked the guy down I never found out.

I only met John once, at Harrogate quite a few years ago now.

Despite that, his 'fingerprints' are all over my workshop.

My variable speed chinese lathe now has two ratio's - thanks to John
My Stuart Victoria uses bevel gears to drive the governor - parallel depth method, explained freely by John
I have a digital caliper on the bench, with the lower jaw ground away to make an 'odd legs' pair - bodge by John
The liner on my Nemett - my first model - rescued on the final cuts by John explaining sharp HSS, low speed...
Then of course the 'cat's cradle' for holding odd shaped bits in the lathe.
Almost forgot - I use Sharpie Magnum black markers for marking out, rather than engineers marking out fluid.

There will be more - this just the stuff 'at hand' so he is all over my workshop and that's true of so many of us.

John to me was THE stand out guy.

Condolences and deepest sympathy to his family and friends - if we miss him, imagine what it must be like for his loved ones.

Steve

Neil,

This is a big ask but could all of John's posts, obviously subject relevant, be grouped in one place for access to all.

Martin P

Excellent idea and a fitting tribute.

Bill.

Like any other forum member, present or past, you just have to click the number of posts under their name to see all their posts, so find one of his posts and click the number or use this link:

John Stephenson's posts

Neil

Excellent in principle, Neil

Regrettably they [254 pages of them, since 2009] only appear to be indexed by date.

I know it's "a big ask" but ... is there any reasonable way that they can be searched ?

[sorry, I'm not volunteering to build a database ... just wondering]

MichaelG.

Perhaps the "Bodgers Lodge" series could be extracted and kept as a link rather than just left as a thread

Here's a link for the time being. Today's Update from Bodger's Lodge For some reason, the pictures aren't showing on my PC though.

A gentleman who will be sadly missed by many.

Condolences to his family and friends.

I'll remember him every time a cut a metric thread on my lathe; John sent me a pair of gears for the Myford last time he made a batch, so he lives on in my workshop too.

Bill

Edited By peak4 on 25/10/2017 23:55:04

I suggest using Google site search on the front page with 'John Stevenson' plus what subject you are interested in in teh search box..

While many may like to see John's postings collected or organised in some way there are two issues: Firstly, many of his posts only make sense in context.

Secondly, and more importantly, many forum users are very sensitive about their posts and images being used in ways they never intended. If anyone is to collect or republish John's 'nuggets' this would have to be with permission from his family.

Neil

Some years ago, I had a vituperative quarrel with John on the uk.rec.models.engineering Usenet group, but introduced myself to John when he was on the ArcEuro trade stand at the Midlands show and we cleared the air.

John was very helpful then with my intended projects. (Under the bench today, incomplete )

Subsequently, I had many email conversations with John to do with the gear hobbing processes after I had written the Hobnail spreadsheet for Giles Parkes.

I suggested to John that he would be well situated to assist Giles' daughter with the disposal of the workshop contents and introduced them to each other, although I've had no contact with either party since. (This was because it would have been difficult for me being so far to the south in Chippenham, Wiltshire)

John's passing is a sad loss, coming so soon after Giles' passing.

Is there a link to His obituary? I would like to know more about Him and do not know if this is done across the pond. Google only finds obits over here.

I doubt it will have been published yet.

Neil

Absolutely.

Very sad news indeed my condolences to Johns family.

Harry