Please may I join your Forum?

Hello, my name is Peter and I live in Chesterfield in Derbyshire. I think I am more a hobby engineer than a model engineer but having followed the exploits of Ron Laden from the very beginning he has inspired me to have a go at building a simple model steam engine. I am building an engine based on the E-Z engine from homemodelenginemachinist.com. I enjoy making tooling and bits and pieces for my machines and it is surprising just how useful a lathe is to support all sorts of other interests. I acquired for a nominal sum a lathe and a pillar drill about 30 years ago when my employer was having a factory clear out. I knew nothing about them then but quite fancied learning. Doing a bit of investigation when I got them home I discovered I was to be the proud owner of a Myford Super 7 and a Fobco Star bench pillar drill. The Super 7 is 1959 vintage and I guess the drill is a similar age. They are both in remarkably good condition for 60+ years old! When I fully retired recently these were joined by a Chester V20 milling machine. Another current project is motorising the Z axis on the V20 with a stepper motor and Arduino. Similar to the article in the latest MEW but easier because the manual handle is on the side and the motor connects to the top of the leadscrew.

My background is electrical engineering and electronics though I have spent most of my working life around industrial electric ovens and furnaces. Having gleaned so much from this forum, hopefully I can contribute some thoughts on temperature related matters.

Best regards Peter G1UGL

Hi Peter welcome to the forum. I don't live to far from you in Sutton in Ashfield and worked till recently in Chesterfield. You may have loads of information especially about making ovens for heat treatment etc and I am sure you have other skills as well. If you need any information just put a question out on here and you will get help.

David

Welcome along Peter.

Hello Peter and welcome to the forum. I'm just down the road from you in Mansfield. As you probably already know, if you have any questions at all you have but to ask.

Brian

Peter,

Welcome to the forum.

I too consider myself to be (much) more of a hobby engineer than a model engineer, indeed I have no interest in building models, but plenty of interest in simply learning how to use the tools on any job that might come my way - self-education by experimentation.

Simply, he says? With a hollow laugh! Is anything in the world of engineering simple? There is always something new to learn!

Anyway, welcome (again), and enjoy.

Peter G. Shaw

Welcome Peter, a few radio hams on here!

73, de G0EMS.

Hello from Buxton; I retired over here a couple of years ago from Sheffield;
Spent many happy hours working at the BT exchange in Chesterfield.
Bill

Hi Peter and welcome to the forum, out of interest who did you work for ?

H

Welcome Oven Man. Sounds like you had an interesting career. There is just something about steam power.

Steve.

Welcome to the forum; it turns out I've got one of your products:

Very useful it's been too.

Andrew

Andrew, Yes indeed. looks like a late 1970s model. You can tell the age from the serial no. - month and year then a sequential number for that year. We've still got the records of almost all the units we have ever made since about 1960.

Peter

Welcome to the Forum, from another hobby engineer, rather than a Model one!

As an aside, G0EMS sounds like an early QSL! Or are RSGB going round the alphabet a second time?

In the fifties, our art master was a "ham" with the call sign G3NA

Howard, a long lapsed RS

Thanks for that; furnace number looks to be 9/82/1050, so just into the 80s.

Andrew