Hey Guys (and Ladies, if any),
I have never posted in the Welcome section before. When I found this site I went straight to the builds etc, registered within a few minutes, and began asking questions. I think my posts have been newsy enough that you have gotten to know me some.
Sorry I havent posted for so long, been lurking though, seeing all your great models, tools and techniques and feeling a little down about my attempts in the workshop. I have always loved model engineering and have always thought, I want to do something like that and Im sure that I can. I bought LBSCs book about building Tich way back in 72 or 73 always believing that some day I would have a workshop and get to building model thingies. That book has faithfully followed me around and I still have it to fuel my fantasies. Some small Nicholson files, bought about the same time in Chambers Street, Lower Manhattan have also been good enough to come with me and the Tich book. Is Chambers Street still the tinkerers heaven it was in the 70s ? I havent been outside South Africa since 1981 except to Lesotho, a small landlocked state, totally within SA, so that hardly counts.
So now I have my workshop and reality has started to displace my fantasy of I could do that. Dont get me wrong, I spend lots of time in the workshop and love every minute of it, but my success there is very limited and everything takes me so long, like 4 days to make 3 thumbscrews, knurled one end, threaded M6 the other. The first took 2 days the next 2, all identical, a day each, so I guess there is progress. I feel sometimes it is impertinent of me to want to join the community of machinists. It will take me forever to build something with 100 or even 30 components that work together and I dont have that long.
I havent been able to post pics as we are on a sloooow dialup connection and our connection usually crashes on anything bigger than a Word document we try to upload. The pix of my Atlas 7 were some fluke. However there is hope on the horizon. A local computer shop owner is trying to get a broadcast licence for an internet wireless station and we will be among his first customers, if ever.
Please no sympathy, a pat on the back would be great.
Ant
I have never posted in the Welcome section before. When I found this site I went straight to the builds etc, registered within a few minutes, and began asking questions. I think my posts have been newsy enough that you have gotten to know me some.
Sorry I havent posted for so long, been lurking though, seeing all your great models, tools and techniques and feeling a little down about my attempts in the workshop. I have always loved model engineering and have always thought, I want to do something like that and Im sure that I can. I bought LBSCs book about building Tich way back in 72 or 73 always believing that some day I would have a workshop and get to building model thingies. That book has faithfully followed me around and I still have it to fuel my fantasies. Some small Nicholson files, bought about the same time in Chambers Street, Lower Manhattan have also been good enough to come with me and the Tich book. Is Chambers Street still the tinkerers heaven it was in the 70s ? I havent been outside South Africa since 1981 except to Lesotho, a small landlocked state, totally within SA, so that hardly counts.
So now I have my workshop and reality has started to displace my fantasy of I could do that. Dont get me wrong, I spend lots of time in the workshop and love every minute of it, but my success there is very limited and everything takes me so long, like 4 days to make 3 thumbscrews, knurled one end, threaded M6 the other. The first took 2 days the next 2, all identical, a day each, so I guess there is progress. I feel sometimes it is impertinent of me to want to join the community of machinists. It will take me forever to build something with 100 or even 30 components that work together and I dont have that long.
I havent been able to post pics as we are on a sloooow dialup connection and our connection usually crashes on anything bigger than a Word document we try to upload. The pix of my Atlas 7 were some fluke. However there is hope on the horizon. A local computer shop owner is trying to get a broadcast licence for an internet wireless station and we will be among his first customers, if ever.
Please no sympathy, a pat on the back would be great.
Ant
