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President’s message: Hello! I wasn’t able to make the meeting last time. I had several customers who all had the same deadline for getting their jobs done, so I worked during the day and at night, too. Rick Chownyk was kind enough to supply pictures to me and James Howard did the minutes. Thanks to both of them for filling in. Since I am making the newsletter up without seeing any of this till now, they may be some things forgotten or not quite right. Sorry. I will print up some more Show and Tell sheets. They are a huge help in doing the newsletter. Minutes
of Meeting of Emil
Cafarelli opened the meeting at John
Lee indicated the treasury account balance to be $xxx. Two
interested new persons, potential club members, introduced themselves to
the attending membership. These were: Steve Huck, employed as an
electrician with some metalworking tools in a home shop, and Phillip
Shannon, a retired GM machine shop worker with extensive precision tooling
experience and with a desire to maintain the skill and interest.
Earl
Austerberry presented fliers reviewing a series of presentations at the Don
Foren reviewed the problems with the metal shop class work, temporarily
suspended due to some problem with the CNC machines.
He indicated that Mr. Marino, the shop teacher, would be at this
meeting to review the class status, but he did not appear.
Ron
Grimes demonstrated a small working model steam engine with a separate
boiler and accessories, built from a kit. Joe
Pietsch demonstrated an alignment tool to be mounted in a drill press
chuck and designed to grasp small taps for proper alignment of the tap
into tap holes in a plate on the drill press platen.
It is available at Wholesale Tool for $10. He also presented a
miniature drill press, found at a garage sale, and a tool that appeared to
be jig for mounting valves for grinding. I,
James Howard, failed to notice Rick Chownyk, apparently seated at the back
of the room, during this meeting. I,
therefore, did not raise the detail of his very classy and informative
presentation of the lost foam process at my home during the August
meeting. He bailed me out of a
lack of presenter problem at a very late hour and came through with a fine
show at the end of lots of preparations and bull labor.
I am most grateful to him. Ron
Grimes is still
at it with the steam engine he built from a casting kit. What really
impressed one guy (Rick Chownyk) was the base. It’s a 2x4 that looks
like very convincing brickwork. Neat!
Joe
Pietsch showed
this old, little drill press he found at a garage sale. If Joe ever has
a garage sale, I want to know about it.
Check out the model radial engine. We don’t know who made it (sorry), but I was told it was created by getting 9 single cylinder engines (at $7 apiece) and mounting the parts on a common crankcase. Ingenious.
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