Good morning everyone

Good morning and Hello, I am currently in the process of retiring from a long career in the Army, engineering has been an interest of mine for years From afar. I have re-rolled my garden sheds ready for when I have more time on my hands. I have made one into a welding bay and enlisted myself onto a TIG course at Leeds college of building (I last left there in 1993 as a trained joiner). And the other currently has a 1979 Myford VMC mill in there, and is waiting for me to work out how to collect and move a Colchester student in too. I have never used these these machines before, but I am very confident I will enjoy it.

I hope to speak to you all in time and gain your advice and knowledge.

Regards, Paul

Welcome Paul, hope your retirement is a long and fruitful one...

There is lots of very useful information on here, usually from folk who have done it properly, I was in engineering nearly all my life and sometimes come here to check I'm still doing things right!

Regards, Henry.

Hi Paul welcome to the forum. You should find loads of help on here as generally are a helpful bunch. What are you interested in.

David

Hello Paul and welcome back to civvy street. I'm sure you will get great pleasure from your growing workshop.

ATB

Rik - ex REME .

Thanks for the welcomes, very much appreciated.

I work with your REME mob a lot Rik as I'm RE and armoured, so breaking down is absolutely my business .

I'm going to look at fitting touch DRO to the mill, and then later the lathe too.

Welcome to the forum Paul, my dad is ex-RE

Neil

Welcome along Paul.

My neighbour is a maintenance man at that college.

Hope you get everything set up as you need.

Steve.

Again, thank you for the welcomes.

Neil, the RE isn't what it used to be, unfortunately.

Steve, I'll be going back to do advanced and Some mig as soon as they let me.

Paul, I retired from the REME in 1977, and started another carreer with an International Swiss Company LEICA,. I retired from them in 1999 settling back in Gillingham, kent. Then started work again at a smaller Coy. in Rochester and only stopped work in 2015 when made redundant at age 78.

Now fully retired I have a Myford ML10 and Seig Mill and a lot of other tooling. In process of making a 9F 3.5 gauge loco and other nits and bobs. Also a neekeeper, so forge ahead with your plans and enjoy yourself.

Clive

Lots of good stuff in here to search for

The ME home page has a global sitesearch box from google

This is some of clives neekeeping stuff (very interesting it is too)

GL

Hi & welcome Paul,

I can claim an association with the REME... yes !, I was that weekend soldier... Craftsman, 34th Northern Signals reg.LAD REME...Territorial reserves... # 24.....5...sir!. Still have my belt. Did my basic trng down at Boredon Hants.

George.

Hope it all goes well. Mig is a doddle. Tig is easy to learn, but AC tig on alloy is ????. Still progressing myself on that one. The thing is that once learnt , it's forever.

Steve.