Tool & Die maker in TN

[Walltoddj]

I did this back when I sign on but it's not there so I'll do it again. I'm a retired Tool & Die maker from General Motors Powertrain in Buffalo, NY after 30 years. I've been doing this since I was 10 years old in my fathers shop in the basement. My shop is a 35'x75' building with a wood shop, a metal shop, and a car lift in the middle. I have two Bridgeport mills, two Surface Grinders, Mig, Tig, and a DoAll Lathe. I still getting things organized from moving after retiring but it's getting better and slowly the materials are coming together for the tools and engines I want to build.

Todd

 

[stevehuckss396]

Welcome Todd!!

What type of engines would you be thinking of building? Plenty of help to be had here as well as people looking for good advise so jump in when you can.

 

[chucketn]

Where in TN, Todd? I'm near Jonesborough.
I'm also retired, but not from toolmaking.

Chuck

 

[Tin Falcon]

welcome to the forum.
tin

 

[Walltoddj]

Welcome Todd!!

What type of engines would you be thinking of building? Plenty of help to be had here as well as people looking for good advise so jump in when you can.

Just about any have lots of plans 9cyl, 18cyl, V8, Offy, Opposed 4, and various other types. I've gotten most of the materials for all of them it's just getting the time to make them. I've got to finish my larger Bridgeport rebuild and my 618 Brown & Sharpe Grinder they needed to be taken apart when I moved so I'd like to get them running again first. Lucky for me I have another Reid grinder and a second Bridgeport mill.

Thanks for asking

 

[Walltoddj]

Where in TN, Todd? I'm near Jonesborough.
I'm also retired, but not from toolmaking.

Chuck

I moved from NY to Jefferson City, TN it's great to have a summer not just a month of warm weather.

 

[GWRdriver]

Welcome to the Board, and welcome to Tennessee.

 

[chucketn]

Todd, I too, am a native NY'er. I'm currently in North Bay, on the N.E. corner of Oneida Lake. I'm wondering how we'll get home as the tranny in my Blazer took a dump yesterday! Hope the son's mechanic can fix it reasonably cheeply...
Cool. you're about 40 miles south of me. We'll have to get together over a coffee and compare notes!

Chuck

 

[doc1955]

Welcome Todd from another former Tool and Die person. I'm in North Dakota I worked as a tool and die person for about 25 years and now a tool designer for the last 15 years. Mostly air structures for Boeing and Airbus did work on a lot of military stuff to.
Anyway welcome aboard.

 

[Swifty]

Welcome Todd, I worked as a toolmaker all my working life, specialised in progressive tooling as well as the usual precision machining of all sorts of parts.

Paul.

 

[gus]

Welcome Todd to the HMEM from faraway Singapore which is not too faraway from Australia and China.

Was trained as a machinist and fitter but ended up working for Ingersoll-Rand,Singapore farming
work out to sub-contractors for 32 years.

Happily retired since 2001, still trying to wake up dormant skills.

 

[Walltoddj]

Welcome Todd to the HMEM from faraway Singapore which is not too faraway from Australia and China.

Was trained as a machinist and fitter but ended up working for Ingersoll-Rand,Singapore farming
work out to sub-contractors for 32 years.

Happily retired since 2001, still trying to wake up dormant skills.

As I've been told it's like riding a bike you never forget, as I found out it may take a few try's but it all comes back.

 

[gus]

As I've been told it's like riding a bike you never forget, as I found out it may take a few try's but it all comes back.

Hi Todd,

Way back in 1978 I was at Elmira,Painted Post,Corning etc. Was supposed to go Niagra Falls via Buffalo but ended up in Campbellsville,Kentucky. Was at the Ingersoll-Rand,Painted Post attending a manufacturing seminar.

Must be fate.Done 32 years with Ingersoll-Rand S.E.Asia,Singapore. Ended up as Operations Manager with a full compliment of machine tools and no time to build model engines. By 5:30 pm knockoff time,I and done for the day.


Happy New Year.

 

[Walltoddj]

Hi Todd,

Way back in 1978 I was at Elmira,Painted Post,Corning etc. Was supposed to go Niagra Falls via Buffalo but ended up in Campbellsville,Kentucky. Was at the Ingersoll-Rand,Painted Post attending a manufacturing seminar.

Must be fate.Done 32 years with Ingersoll-Rand S.E.Asia,Singapore. Ended up as Operations Manager with a full compliment of machine tools and no time to build model engines. By 5:30 pm knockoff time,I and done for the day.


Happy New Year.

1978 was the year I started my apprenticeship with General Motors as a Tool & Die maker we made and repaired Injection Molds for body parts interior as well as exterior.

Hope you have a Happy New Year!!