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January,
2007
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Please pay careful attention
to the yellow boxes (grey shaded boxes for the paper edition of the
newsletter). These have important announcements you should consider. There
are three yellow boxes this time. One is a reminder that the metal class
is starting up again. Another deals with dues, which are now due. The last
talks about elections. Run for office and influence the direction of the
club.
MINUTES
John Osborne
reporting. There were 19 members present. We again voiced our appreciation for last
month’s presentation from LocTite. I passed out LocTite brochures and
application calculators left over from the last meeting. Rick Chownyk
had a stack of tap and drill charts he passed out. I use mine all the
time (it has all the metric info I need). Possession of the club book
again changed and the last reader added to the chorus of those who say
it is a fine and valuable book. We talked again about the club getting
additional books and videos; everyone liked the idea. We talked about
paying dues for the New Year. The treasury is in good shape due to
careful handling of funds. John Lee mentioned that more members are
getting the newsletter (our only club expense so far) by email and fewer
by regular mail. We talked about reducing dues, but a vote was almost
unanimous for keeping it at $10 (and use the funds to get club books and
videos). We talked about elections and decided to put that off to the
next meeting. I urged the members to consider running for office. I do
not intend to be Pres for a lifetime. I also complained about my
difficulties in running the meeting, taking pictures, recording the
minutes and writing it all up and laying out the newsletter. I offered
to give all possible help to anyone interested in doing the newsletter
(even as a backup to me). I asked if anyone wanted to know how I get the
newsletter pieces to fit perfectly every time. James Howard took the
bait and said he wanted to know. I said its done in Word with a few
important tricks. Here is how: all the text is in boxes so the box can
be stretched or squashed to make the text fill it. Changing the size of
headlines can also find space or use it up. Pictures are cropped to
throw out unneeded stuff, then sized and stretched or squashed till it
fits. This distorts the pictures, but if done judiciously, the reader
never knows. Every other publication is doing the same thing to you.
I did for this edition, too. But you won’t be able to prove
it…
Rick Chownyk got up to tell us about his new job as
a manual machinist in a small family-owned job shop. Rick gained some
respect for one of his fellow workers when he used a MIG welder to back
out a 6-32 tap that broke in the part. He welded to the broken tap, then
added blob after blob of weld until it was above the surface, then welded
a “T” on that. Pliers backed out the tap. There is no picture, but it
was very small anyway.
Joe Pietsch recommended
yet another book. I think the club needs a librarian and I nominate Joe.
At least we could be sure he would read them all and review them for us.
The 3 panels to the right show the front and back covers and a picture
from inside. I lost the pictures I took at the meeting, but I had the ISBN
number, so I found it on the Internet. The pictures are better than I took
anyhow. Here are the details:
Randolph
’s Shop, by J. Randolph
Bulgin, ISBN# 9785475-0-0. It can be bought online at:
randolphsmachineshop.com
for $39.
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