At Last

[Jonathan GarsideParticipant @jonathangarside40968]

I purchased in 1978 2 castings and a set of plans from Clarksons of York in order to build the dividing head designed by L H Sparey.

Well last week I finished it and I have put 2 not very good photos in my album..The gears on the banjo are for illustrative purposes and are not meant to represent a set up.

Can anyone else beat me for longevity of time in building a simple device.

[Jonathan GarsideParticipant @jonathangarside40968]

Sparey Dividing Head

[Bill DawesParticipant @billdawes]

Well in 1953 aged 12 and spurred on by the Eagle comic I started to build a spaceship.

Haven't got there yet.

Bill D.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Well done Jonathon, that would make an interesting short write up for MEW

I am sure I can find a non-engineering project I started in 78 or earlier to finish off and pip you

Neil

[Steve WithnellParticipant @stevewithnell34426]

Posted by Bill Dawes on 02/08/2016 18:59:18:

Well in 1953 aged 12 and spurred on by the Eagle comic I started to build a spaceship.

Haven't got there yet.

Bill D.

[Boiler BriParticipant @boilerbri]

Steve I think i am in outer space as i have that may projects on the go. After 10 years of looking at the rims for my 4" Durham i have just put them in the car to take them for cleaning up before i start to put them together. Total project on this one 11 years.

Brian

[Rik ShawParticipant @rikshaw]

"Well in 1953 aged 12 and spurred on by the Eagle comic I started to build a spaceship.

Haven't got there yet."

Bill – Just as well – that nasty Mekon would only try to trash you!

Rik

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

Posted by Rik Shaw on 02/08/2016 20:53:23:

"Well in 1953 aged 12 and spurred on by the Eagle comic I started to build a spaceship.

Haven't got there yet."

Bill – Just as well – that nasty Mekon would only try to trash you!

 

Rik

One of my good friends at school (back in the 1960s) was known to all and sundry as Mekon. He wouldn't hurt a fly!

Edited By duncan webster on 02/08/2016 23:25:36

[Enough!Participant @enough]

Posted by duncan webster on 02/08/2016 23:25:23:

One of my good friends at school (back in the 1960s) was known to all and sundry as Mekon. He wouldn't hurt a fly!

 

One of my Physics teachers at school (back in the 1950's) was also known as The Mekon. I don't know about flies but he would most certainly hurt schoolboys …. meter rule over the head – sideways! He reckoned to break them (the metre rules) three times before he got a new one.

he did look very much like The Mekon though.

Edited By Bandersnatch on 03/08/2016 00:55:12

[john carruthersParticipant @johncarruthers46255]

I once watched Blue Peter in the late 60's where they showed grinding a telescope mirror, (looked about 4" dia).
Finally finished a 10" F6 to 1/25 wave of yellow light in 2002?

We had a metalwork master 'Cog' Wheeler who use a strip of brazing rod on miscreants when sitting on the shop stools, that stings, and concentrates the mind.

[Jonathan GarsideParticipant @jonathangarside40968]

Well if we want to get into sadistic schoolmasters and away from the thread (what a drift) one of our history masters in the late 50s early 60s used to use a cricket bat most effectively. He never needed to say anything all was quiet in the classroom.

Jonathan

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