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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Hi gang! Sorry I missed the meeting, but I was at the CNC Workshop with Rick Chownik and Don Foren. I didn’t get any pictures from the meeting, so I put in some I took at the CNC Workshop. The one to the right is how the crew retrofitting an old Mazak machining center was sustained. They managed to get the machine moving and changing tools. I guess it just takes the right food…
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potential new member, Len Thomas, introduced himself to the membership. He
indicated a long interest in metal tools and machining and currently owns
a limited stock of metal tools.
James
Howard requested the help of the membership in developing ideas for a
dental tool for which he has uncovered the need, within his own direct
experience. He reviewed a
robbery and assault he endured in 1987, during which he lost upper teeth,
requiring an upper plate for replacement. Recent
repairs on the plate attachment hooks resulted in damage by the dentist,
due to the use of pliers improperly designed for the bending of these
hooks, resulting in failure of this very expensive hook.
James reviewed the problem at the board and requested ideas for a
tool, which would distribute bending load over the length of the bend, to
avoid stress risers. A member
remarked that this was an improper subject for discussion in this
metalworking club and the discussion was immediately terminated. James
Hagel suggested the development of a club logo for use on caps or golf
shirts of the membership. Mr.
Cafarelli jumped on this idea immediately and assigned Mr. Hagel to
develop designs for membership review.
Joe
Pietsch presented a kit model miniature marine engine he had built.
The kit came from Graham Industries of New Mexico.
He also presented a set of slot cutter bits for the annulus of
O-rings and snap rings. They
were $90 from Victor Machine Exchange of Brooklyn, New York. Burt
Campbell presented a large collection of prints of photographs of tooling
objects he found searching the web. Many items provided prints of the
parts, some free and some at cost. Ron
Grimes presented a deburring tool he made, featuring a removable handle,
allowing the handle to be used with potential future tools.
James
Howard offered his house again for use during the August meeting.
The meeting will present a simplified review of the 4 or 5 methods
used to construct or develop a clay vessel or component and will show the
various stages of any single product from basic clay preparation to the
completion of the last firing of the finished product.
He requested that attending members bring any available folding
chairs he might have so that no spouse has to stand for the presentation.
He also promised a large tray of Japanese sushi, with and without
raw flesh, especially for anyone who has never tried either.
Submitted by James Howard. Rick
Chownik was on
fire. Well, not really, but almost. He gave many demonstrations of his
home-built metal casting set-up. This
was a very popular demo and Rick talked himself hoarse every day. The
Rick-O-Matic CNC milling machine was also there with a higher speed
spindle. Anyway, Rick is attempting to light the burner in this picture.
I never saw it work the first time, but Rick doesn’t give up.
John
Osborne camped
in his van waaaayyyy off in a corner of the grounds. Rick was
complaining about the long walk from my van back to his booth one time
while telling what happened earlier in the day. A propane cylinder was
left in the hot Sun and it was apparently overfilled, because it vented
a solid stream of liquid propane. Rick acted quickly and got the
situation under control avoiding a big fire or worse. I said “Thanks,
but that’s the reason I park as far away from you as possible…”
These
are goats. We
were in farm country where talk of computer controlled machine tool s
seemed quite out of place, yet I enjoyed it immensely.
I was able to get many questions answered that will help me in my
work. I also enjoyed the show the fireflies put on every night for an
hour as the Sun went down. The relaxation was welcome.
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