German Engine Forum

[Xlmyford]

Here is a link to a video of one of the steam engine builds:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRJfx6NlgKs&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Andrew

Hello.
You can take a look at this guys machines without becoming a member of the"Dampfforum".
Here is his homepage
http://dampfundmehr.de/
There on the left side, you will find"Meine Modelle",the third from the top.
Just click on it.Then click on the thumb pics.
Cheers,Ralph

 

[Xlmyford]

Before actual viewing, looks like one can burn a few hours just trying get in front door REGISTERING! ;D

I entered the typical email/name user fields up top, selected British English as the language, my time zone. The country dropdown only shows: Germany, Austria, Swiss & 'not selected'. Tried 'not selected' & filling in the rest of the info, guess it didn't like the flavour of a Canadian phone number or something. Did you eventually contact a web admin or someone directly? Looks like nice stuff there, but what a rigmarole.

Hello.

You have to recognize that this forum is a more intimate or personal kind of community.
Most of the members know each other in person and therefor new members are checked in advance.
They don't want any trolls.

Give them the time they need and you will be welcome there.
You have to show your real name,no nicks allowed, and your phone number has to be written without spaces,IIRC.
Cheers,Ralph

BTW. Another very gifted model engineer's side,worth a longer look.
http://www.eckartkercher.de/
Lots of brilliant pics in
http://www.eckartkercher.de/uebersicht.htm
http://www.eckartkercher.de/baubeschreibungen.htm
This guy is a retired advertising photographer(you will realize this,as soon as you see his pics).
He has had no "metal experience" before he started model engineering.
An autodidact,which is hard to believe and makes me cry,sometimes. :'(

 

[pete]

Xlmyford is 100% correct. It took me over a week to finally get signed up at that site. It IS worth it though. There's one young guy on there who doesn't yet have any machine tools and builds amazing stationary steam models out of light cardboard. Somebody needs to take up a collection and well buy that guy some starting equipment.

Since I don't speak any German, One little trick I discovered that saves a lot of searching time is I use a 15 post minimum count for a thread, Scroll thru till I hit some pictures. If I'm real interested in what their doing, I then kick Google translate into gear. They all seem to be expert photographers on that site too. As long as people behave and don't post in English. I'd think they would welcome anyone.

Oh Yeah, You have to use your real name as Xlmyford said, But it's both your first and last name too. That's what slowed me up from joining.

Pete

 

[JorgensenSteam]

I used this link to get to one of the sites mentioned above, for Peter Falla Schek. Maybe it will work here.
It translates the German into an understandable but not perfect English.

http://translate.google.com/transla...+fallaschek&hl=en&biw=936&bih=463&prmd=imvnso

This guy appears to be extremely good at modeling.

Here is Eckart Kercher's website in English:
http://translate.google.com/transla...art+Kercher&hl=en&biw=936&bih=463&prmd=imvnso

Eckart's models are incredibly beautiful. Works of art I would say.

Those guys are no slackers when it comes to engineering and modeling.

 

[Admiral_dk]

I registered myself there yesterday - he requires your full name and address etc for signing up, but the first line is your handle, so I filled in Admiral_dk as I have done several places on the net - no problem.

 

[gbritnell]

I see Herr Schek uses what some people consider unusable, a round column mill.
gbritnell

 

[steamer]

Oh I would never think that George....no one else should either! :bow: :bow:


Dave

 

[steamer]

Thanks for that Ralph! He does very nice work!

Dave

 

[Xlmyford]

I see Herr Fallaschek uses what some people consider unusable, a round column mill.
gbritnell

Yes,Peter is using a BF25 (Rong Fu),sold by Optimum in Germany.It came along very low priced.
Peter is a former instructor for industrial machinists,that included turning,milling,etc.
After he did some modifications to his mill,
http://dampfundmehr.de/bilder/keller/optimum/digi_anzeige.html,
he is very satisfied with it
and the round column never bothered him.
His workshop is located in a very small cellar in an apartment house.
There is only space for the mill,his Myford
http://dampfundmehr.de/site05.htm
and for himself.
His bandsaw and the brazing equipment are standing in his garage.
Fortunately Peter is not that big.
Cheers,Ralph

 

[steamer]

Ah and he has it on the ball too! The cam lock spindle head lock is a awesome mod to the RF. :bow:

The brief time I had a RF30, that feature was one thing I truly disliked!

Dave

 

[Blue_Rock]

Hi, I registered yesterday and got access today.

Yep, that camlock mod to the RF head lock bolts is sweet.

Nice to see Herr Falla Schek has included some great photos and a very clear PDF drawing of the mod... in metric, you gotta love that.

This guy turns out a staggering array of beautiful and finely-detailed machines... truly inspiring.

Herr Falla Schek ist Der Mann!

 

[Xlmyford]

Hello.
Don't want to be impolite,but
"Der Mann"is named Fallaschek.
Or call him Peter.
Cheers,Ralph

 

[JorgensenSteam]

You can tell those guys are extremely passionate about what they do.

Having seen their work, I don't blame them for wanting a sort of closed club consisting of others like them.

I still would hope they would have an open forum though for the rest of us "mortals", (no criticism intented, these guys are great, but open-source helps the rest of use become great too).

 

[Xlmyford]

You can tell those guys are extremely passionate about what they do.

Having seen their work, I don't blame them for wanting a sort of closed club consisting of others like them.

I still would hope they would have an open forum though for the rest of us "mortals", (no criticism intented, these guys are great, but open-source helps the rest of use become great too).

There is no problem to join this guys.
You don't have to show any masterpiece to become a member.
I'm a member there and I've hardly any idea of model engineering.
Cheers,Ralph

 

[petertha]

Hopefully I’m following the correct procedure. I initially filled in the info on the registration page, then got an email a few days later confirming my chosen username & password “Welcome to Dampfforum forums, Please keep this e-mail for your records. Your account information is as..”

Today I got another email saying “Registrierung und Datenerhebung Die Angabe des vollständigen Namens, der Adresse (Land, Postleitzahl, Wohnort, Straße),für die Anmeldung bei dampfforum. (Nicknamen werden automatisch gelöscht)” ..... English translation: “Registration and data collection Specifying the complete name, address (country, zip code, city, street), with the application for steam forum. (Nick name will be automatically deleted).

So I went back to the registration page, this time inserted my full name & address, using my email & password from before.. Is this the right procedure? Am I almost there?

 

[petertha]

Never mind, just got a confirmation email. Im IN. Yaaay!

 

[lazylathe]

Looks like this thread is causing a lot of interest! ;D

Just remember no posts in English!
And also Google Translate does not always translate correctly!

And it takes a long time to find info...
At the moment i am looking for info on test tubes.
They always seem to be able to get the best ones!

Andrew

 

[JorgensenSteam]

Another benefit of having an open forum is that realistically, I will not be able to post any useful information on a German forum like that.

So there is no need to join, only to make a few posts, and then probably get bumped out of the membership due to lack of activity.

But if I could see what they were doing, then I could interactively comment on what I see, for example from this forum.

At least then we could all interact and discuss in some way.

Again, in my opinion, open forums (open forum means that you can see everything regardless of whether you are a member, and not to be confused with a forum who admits anyone for any reason, and regardless of whether they post anything or not such as HMEM) are the only way to go.

Note, there is nothing wrong with the way HMEM admits anyone as a member regardless, if you have someone who can spend a bunch of time each day weeding out hundreds of spam applications for membership. Most people who run forums just don't have time for such things, and have to have a "on request" membership. More power to HMEM if they do allow anyone. It does seem kind of odd to have 10,000 members, when only perhaps 500 have ever made their first post, and of those 500, only 100 ever make a second post.

I think the reality is that 1% of the 10,000 members make 99% of all the posts.

I think we have to realize we can't join and actively participate in 20 differnet forums (unless we are retired and don't have anything better to do, I am not retired).

 

[chbeyer]

Hi,

being the site-admin of dampfforum.info I just want to state that there are no access limits for the site, rules are a bit more strict than here, like no nicknames, only 'real' avatars, correct post address. In the past we lost some very valuable highly gifted model engineers and with them a lot of useful input due to trolls and harsh language and general intercourse. To avoid that the forum has been made as unattractive for trolls as possible.

Though anyone from the very beginner to the specialised builder is very welcome there and we have a bright variety of members.

For the language, the language of the forum is obviously german and 50 to 60% of the members don't speak/read english at all (including Peter the 'owner' of the forum). It is not formally forbidden to post in different languages but at least a google translator output in german should be added. Seems logical to me I don't write this in german either

The fact that the forum is closed has more or less historical reasons, one of the advantages though is that some of the more active posters also write for model engineering magazines usually those do not tolerate articles about stuff that is already publicly available on the net. It also keeps the number of members a bit smaller and the percentage of 'active' members higher, though nobody get's bumped out for being inactive !

cheers
christoph

 

[Mosey]

Huck, Klotz, Steamer, Lazylathe! Wow, glad to see you guys here , again.