Hello from Cornwall

[Jonathan RichardsParticipant @jonathanrichards78237]

Happy New Year to all.

To introduce myself, I brought down the curtain on my second career in early 2020 and am now finally looking forward to an active retirement. I have always enjoyed playing with old cars but have never done any engineering per se. I discovered model engineering some years ago, via a detour into model railways, which had been a childhood interest.

Whilst still working I built a workshop, bought some old British machine tools and joined my local ME club. However, to date I haven’t done much beyond trying to ‘improve’ my lathe [Myford 254+] and mill [Tom Senior E-Type].

I have fitted DROs and VFD controlled 3-phase motors to both the 254 and the E-Type. Both machines also now have Hall effect tachometers, and I was able to renew the mill spindle bearings by following Glenn Bunt’s guidance in MEW 258.

My next goal is a stepper motor power feed for the mill x-axis and I also hope to start properly on the ubiquitous Stuart 10v before too long. Ultimately, I plan to attempt some modifications to the cylinders, pistons and valves of a rather asthmatic second hand 5-inch gauge loco. Given my lack of relevant experience I’m afraid that all of these aspirations are likely to generate questions for other members of these forums ….

Jonathan Richards

[Jonathan RichardsParticipant @jonathanrichards78237]

[King OlafParticipant @kingolaf13547]

Hey Jonathan, I've just sent you another PM

For others reading this – I'm in Cornwall too, and I did respond to this post via PM, which went undetected for a bit …

Perhaps this (brilliant) forum should have email notifications on by default for PMs?

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Posted by King Olaf on 27/06/2022 11:20:34:

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Perhaps this (brilliant) forum should have email notifications on by default for PMs?

Welcome to the forum.

The forum migrated recently to a new platform after ME and MEW were sold by MyTimeMedia to another publisher (Mortons). The transfer went well apart from a few ongoing bugs one of which is email notifications aren't working. It's being investigated.

Why is nothing ever easy…

Dave

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