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DECEMBER 2005 President’s Message A
BIG THANK YOU ALL,
for a great 2005. As the year draws to an end, I thank you for the
experience of serving the club. Thanks to everyone who paid their dues
and kept the club solvent. Thanks to those who donated items or money to
the club. Special thanks to those who donated proceeds at the last swap
meet as it made a critical
difference in the club's financial heath at that time. Thanks to the
regular members who make it out to most of the meetings. Thanks to each
of you who brought in things to Show&Tell. The quality, the number
of presentations and especially the variety seems to be increasing. I
never know what you guys are going to come up with, and that where the
fun is! Thanks to my fellow officers. They have advised and guided me on
how other clubs work and we included many of those principles in our own
club. I hope I thanked everybody, because it was everybody who helped
make the club a success., and Till next year... Merry
Christmas to All Minutes:
17 Members and 1 Guest present. This part of the meeting was short and sweet. Everyone was anxious to get going with the show & tell it seems. There was a discussion about the nominations for the up-coming elections, and one Member volunteered his service for 2006. ======================================= A
recent nice email note from Bob Lorenz: Yep,
this will be our first full winter.
So far it has been a nice fall, colours were beautiful, and the
coldest day has been about 30 F. in the morning.
Yesterday the temp. was in the mid 60's. I have an Amish
carpenter crew finishing a pole barn garage for me, should be done
today. 30'x42' with a huge
attic up top. I will move Charlene's wood working tools to a
work room we are building in the back of the garage. This Summer has
been busy making the changes she wants on the house and trying to get
this garage finished before the snow comes. SHOW
& TELL was
amazing in November! We
had a whole lot of good topics, from true home-spun
“this-oughta-do-the-job-perfectly” inventions, to small scale and
huge full-size high-tech, to antiquity, to class “A” modelling and
we even had a “ghost” and a “goblin” appear! The
“ghost” was Rick Chownyk, who we thought must have gone and
died for sure, until we saw pix last month taken at John O’s sojourn
to And
the scary “goblin”, was our very own Joe Pietsch, who was
tossed about like a straw in the heavy winds while coming into the
college for the meeting, and he took a nasty tumble.
Joe stayed through the whole meeting, in much better humour than
I would have managed!! Even
did his regular bag-full of S&T
stuff later!!
I’ve
made this photo of Joe Pietsch’s poor face into a black &
white so that you can always say to your grandchildren that it is
“just dirty old grease” on his forehead.
The bandaged image is just too scary to print here!!
Hope you’re feeling OK by now Joe!
Here
is Joe Pietsch’s dial indicator holding bar.
Made in just a few minutes by forging the end of a piece of drill
rod. (ie..heat it red and whop it with a BFH)!
Joe had some other stuff too, but it’s all a secret, and
won’t be revealed until next month! Ron
Schmidt
gave an excellent presentation on his work over the years in
HYDROFORMING. Excellent!
Ron gave hand-outs, and answered questions, about both the
process itself, the engineering considerations, and it’s applications,
especially in manufacturing truck frames.
Talk of over 35,000 PSI specialty water forcing round tubes into
molds for them, and the pix of the 11,000 Ton press used to do it at a
GM facility in Canada were pretty impressive to me.
I guess I was so enraptured I forgot to take any pictures, so
you’ll have to take my word for it.
B-I-I-I-G-G-G-G!!! Karl
Gross
had a box of “gloat” to show us, as per usual.
He brought in a box that he won on Ebay.
Ten (?) pieces of 3M #2 high quality diamond burnishers (laps??
hones??), flat diamond pad on the end of like a heavy duty
“toothbrush” handle. Pretty
sure he said he paid 5 bucks for the bunch, and the best price here,
even for off-shores, is $15 each. Heck
of a deal. I’ll let Karl
go shopping for me any day! Now,
Karl, what I REALLY want is a shaper and/or a vertical bandsaw....at the
same $5 each. If you can’t
bring them/it in, gimme a call and I’ll make an effort to meet you
half-way, thanks.
Adam
Hermann
brought some “cool stuff”. A
really nice, I mean REALLY nice, hot air fan on a nice stand plate.
It’s full-size Moriya model.
The
pix here are about “full size, showing yet another simple but
invaluable tool/trick from Jerry Harmon.
A set of small brass jigs that hold a piece(s) of broken file, to
allow easy handling and cleaning up edges of small bits and pieces.
Instead of the normal clamp the work and hand-file it, it’s
clamp the file and hand-work it! Of
course, it can act as a “handle too.
Jerry is a master at making life easy, isn’t he!?!?
Note the slot on the “back” side of the larger block is at 45
degrees, to allow easy edge chamfering of small items.
Pretty darn slick!
And
a simple, easy to make, primer remover from Jerry Harmon too.
I think this one was for .45 calibre, but the principle is good
for any of this type cartridge, even for shot-guns, I would think.
And
here’s “ Marley” himself, the Chownyk ghost, in person.
Handsome dude, ain’t he eh?
Who says the camera doesn’t lie?
The
good, the bad, and the really really really ugly** of aluminum casting.
These are the castings Rick Chownyk makes and use for the
CNC mill he builds called “The Rick-O-Matic.
Rick is ALWAYS ready willing and able to stop dead in his tracks
and discuss any aspect of his high quality heavy duty little beast!! (**NOTE:
if Rick gets a bad casting, it’s get scrapped.
He just wanted us to see what can go wrong.)
James Howard is the “Let’s see now, there must be a better way!” guy amongst us. He showed us three very unique tools, for gardening and building a fence in his yard. Dare I say if I had not seen Joe Pietsch already, these tools would have scared me!! Imagine this photo of James, but with Joe’s bandaged up mug-shot instead!! Halloween or not, I just couldn’t do it! Sorry!
Emil Cafarelli had a neat and simple ball turner.
Even had a niceyellow knob to warn you of an unusual action!
We’ll have to gwetr Emil to show and explain the tool-bit
sharpening for this.
Very nice little oscillator from Joe P. also, but no “paper
work”, so no further info! Joe
brought it to show the mounting
base, made of UHMW. This engine is a “single-acting” single
cylinder, but the same style done with a cylinder on each side of the
flywheel run very well.
Nope!! Not Salt & Pepper shakers.
But Mark Nowakowski had us guessing pretty good.
Maybe the give-a-way was the Morse name on the top.
And of course when opened, it showed the various marked sizes to
hold small drill bits.
So, here was the mystery Joe P. brought in.
Wuzzit?
Why, it’s a three pound bag of assorted UHMW (Ultra High Molecular
Weight) “plastic”, which
is
a linear high density polyethylene, having a high abrasion resistance,
as well as high impact strength!!! Joe made the base for the oscillator on the left
from a piece of it. For next
month’s mystery, we’ll ask Joe where he got it, and how much it
cost. DECEMBER MEETING IS THE ANNUAL “SWAP MEET”.
Bring in something to swap, or possibly to sell.
But be aware this is not to be a “commercial venture”.
Govern yourself accordingly.
In the past we’ve often had proceeds from sales, or part
there-of, donated to help
support MDMC.
Now, over the past year or so, we have certainly seen some very nice, in
fact exceptional, work by our Members, but I believe this is perhaps the
Show&Tell ‘piece
de resistance’
for 2005. Jim
Oleniczak first built a 5 cylinder radial engine from the 7 part
series in Home Shop Machinist, and then he built THIS one to double
the size of Rudy Kouhoupt’s design.
There is a piston and rod assembly for this engine shown just to
the right of the engine stand. Between
the stand legs is the crankcase and one cylinder for an engine done to
the original design measurements! Amazing
what just doubling the scale does!
I also think the late Mr. Kouhoupt would have been thrilled to
see this engine. It is
powered by air, and sadly we didn’t get to see it run (yet), but would
certainly expect to see it whirring away at NAMES (hint hint Jim).
Jim is a retired shop teacher, and notes that this is the first
project he has ever built entirely in his basement
home-shop, and that it took him the better part of a year to complete.
He answered a great many questions about it all posed by the
Members.
Laying on the original plan drawing, here is a shot of a piston (only)
made to the original scale, and a piston and rod assembly in 2:1.
You can see the small one is the same size as those shown in the
assembly drawing.
Here
is a shot of the “plans for the “FIVE”.
I did have hopes that some detail would be visible, but
alas..... Any
person who is a Member may be Nominated, or volunteer to Stand, from the
floor at the beginning of the December meeting, and voting by secret
ballot will follow the Nominations, so plan to attend.
It’s YOUR club.
The
2005 Executive Proposes the following slate as Nominees for Officers for
2006
President
John
Osborne Vice President
Emil
Caffarelli Treasurer
Al
Johnston Secretary
Ken
Hunt Newsletter Editor
John
Osborne Newsletter Publisher
John
Lee Webmaster
Dan Hittenmark
Roving Reporters
Bob
Fuhrman,
Karl Gross, (NOT OFFICERS)
Brian Lawson,
Joe Pietsch ==================================== Atlas 7” shaper in excellent condition.
Contact Adam Hermann (586) 268-9841. Surface Grinder..said to be in good condition.
3phase 220. In Surface Grinder in pieces. CHEAP!
Viable project of a very useful tool.
Email pix available. Seller IS Brian Lawson, 1.5 hours from the
Bridge/Tunnel. (519)
695-2799. No duty on
importing to the Space Heater, Natural Gas, free-standing.
Suitable for a small shop. Cheap.
Brian Lawson, (519) 695-2799 Editor’s Note: This is my last submission as MDMC Newsletter Editor.
It’s bin a hoot, mon! I’ve
had a good time doing it, and learned a lot, but it has been difficult
for me to make all the meetings. This
is supposed to be the “fun” part of my life, but I feel guilty when
I have not been able to attend, and I don’t want to feel that anymore.
I would like to thank
everyone for all their input, especially John O.,
and I must apologize to John Lee for invariably sending him
everything so late! I hope
you will all support the new incoming Editor, and DO NOT HESITATE
to provide him/her any
hints/tips/charts/photos/stories/jokes/book-titles/URL’s or other
items of interest for our Members. Thank You, Season’s Best, and a Great 2006.
Take care. Brian Lawson
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