John Stevenson

[Howard LewisParticipant @howardlewis46836]

Can only wish you well, in all senses of the word, John.

Keep at it!

Illegitimos non carborundum!

Will count the days until you are again dispensing common sense and skill on here.

Howard

[MWParticipant @mw27036]

I asked him a while ago to modify this pulley I had, but that's when I found out about the illness.

A while before all that, I sent him some milling cutters to sharpen and I forgot to tape them together, So he soon let me know he just received this packet shot to pieces from the snail mail.

I'd been harping on about how hard it is to find workshops who'll resharpen them, it seems a shame to throw them away when it's only the end bit that's gone chipped or blunt. So I think he took pity on me.

Anyway, the finish on them when I got them back is astoundingly clean and shiny, I'm sure they never looked that good new.

So I'm praying things will get better for John, we can't do without him on here and the amount of people he's lent a hand to goes untold.

I'll stop there before I get too schmaltzy.

Michael W

Edited By Michael-w on 20/10/2017 17:58:16

[Michael Cox 1Participant @michaelcox1]

Get well soon John.

Your contributions are always interesting together with a good dose of humour.

Best wishes

Mike

[Rik ShawParticipant @rikshaw]

John – Looks like you have a lot of friends, you must have been doing things right on the long road to here. Lets hope that all that stuff the meds are pumping you up with will do the trick……benedicat te senem asinum.

Rik

[Phil WhitleyParticipant @philwhitley94135]

We all need you John, get well! All the best to you and your lady.

Phil

[mechman48Participant @mechman48]

Wish you well John.

George

[martin perman 1Participant @martinperman1]

Get well soon John, I'm missing your missives.

Martin P

Edited By martin perman on 20/10/2017 19:03:05

[BikepeteParticipant @bikepete]

Thanks John for passing on so much of your knowledge. Used your 'recipe' for HTD5 pulleys just the other day…

[Dennis WAParticipant @denniswa]

John …who is going to control the Chinese machine tool industry's advance ? You need to develop your successor in both technical and linguistic skills! Besides, the legions of clumsy bastards still need to be sorted.

I have followed John's posts on a variety of technical forums over the years. I respected his practical solutions, enjoyed his apprenticeship memoirs and our one face-to-face meeting.

Dennis Johannesburg

[mark costello 1Participant @markcostello1]

What the bloody heck is this news? Just about the time I learn His language this happens. He has caused Me to do more research on the English language than I ever thought possible, seeing I already know American English. Get well and don't eye the nurses in front of Deb or She might lose Your Meds.

[Anonymous]

I first met John 15+ years ago when I bought a precision level from him. And again shortly afterwards when I bought a universal dividing head; which has featured on these pages every now and again. Both were advertised on the late lamented Chris Heapy website. I paid a third visit to the old house and workshop to pick up some extra change gears for the dividing head, on my way to a Myford open day. And what a disappointment that was. No factory tour, tea in a plastic cup and some over-priced machines, based on the fact they'd belonged to a well-known model engineer; whose name I'm afraid I can't remember. I learnt more about my Myford cylindrical grinder from some-one in the queue for the stores counter than I ever did from the factory.

Since then we exchanged sporadic notes on the forum, and by email, on assorted topics, mainly gears, Gearotic (which I never did get working) and Mach3.

Dunno whether he ever learnt anything from me. Probably not, except, possibly, that not all people with a Ph.D. are impractical numpties. On t'other hand I've learnt a hell of a lot from him, including how to bodge it when a solution is needed fast.

Andrew

[Ian HewsonParticipant @ianhewson99641]

Get well soon John, don’t let Ketan get away with the pound he owes you.

You are a true gentleman, knew that the first time we met you, dig in!!!

Ian & Sue

[BazParticipant @baz89810]

Wishing you all the best John.

[VicParticipant @vic]

I don’t know John but I’ve read many of his helpful posts on this and other forums and wish him well.

[ChrisHParticipant @chrish]

John, I have admired your contributions to this and other forums, always practical, down to earth, basic even and without the non-essential frills. You obviously don't do politically correct or suffer fools gladly, good man. Sound judgement. You would have made an excellent ships engineer back in the day when we still had a merchant navy and I would have been proud to have sailed with you. Wish you all the best and expect to read your continuing contributions on here and elsewhere again very soon.

Cheers,

Chris

PS. Can't believe Ketan still owes you that quid, after all we all on here have spent there, piker…………….

[Colin HeseltineParticipant @colinheseltine48622]

John,

Get well soon. I miss reading your Bodgers posts. My old man was a time served engineer who could make anything on lathe or mill and get things working, but lots of your tasks and fixes (don't like to call them bodges) would have put him to shame.

Hope to see you posting soon.

Colin.

PS The Myford 33/34 gears are great now need another set.

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

This one's dedicated to you, John …

A celebration of the ten-thousandth

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On the occasion of my ten-thousandth posting, I would like to share this:

It's a simple photograph of one ten-thousandth of a metre [*]
This cropped, but unmodified, image is 1000 pixels wide, which splits the outer graduation lines.

To a good approximation therefore; each pixel represents one ten-thousandth of a millimetre

[i.e. one tenth of a micrometre] [a.k.a. 'a tenth of a micron']

It pleases me that, using readily available & reasonably priced equipment, it is quite practical to measure to this resolution. … Obviously, I cannot certify the accuracy or temperature-stability, but; for Bodgers, near enough is good enough.

Please get well enough to argue the toss … it's more fun than rivet-counting.

MichaelG.

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[*] part of a Carl Zeiss 'stage micrometer' photographed using a 10x objective and 3.4x photo-eyepiece

… full frame is 4000×3000 pixels, representing 0.4mm of the scale.

[Bill MullParticipant @billmull]

Get well soon John, there’s lots more bodging to be done

[Jens Eirik Skogstad 1Participant @jenseirikskogstad1]

Best wishes to John Stevenson. The first time I became familiar with this name John Stevenson when I searched for "how to create gear wheel cutter" in the internet. He is an inspiring teacher for younger generations in model engineer. Read many great tips he had written in the forum.

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Hope the doctors can bodge you up so Debs can get a few more years service out of you.

Hope you are back up and about soon

Jason

[Ade VickersParticipant @adevickers73816]

I got to know John a few years back, when he grossly undercharged me for some bits for my relatively unknown lathe. Since then, we've exchanged sporadic e-mails & forum posts/replies (mostly at Madmodder) where he's always had sage advice, albeit often blunter than one of my drill bits. Which is pretty damn blunt.

I found out about his cancer (careless b@st@rd) a while back, but wasn't aware of his condition since then as he's never replied to any of the e-mails I didn't write… so it was with a sense of foreboding that I read the message with his name as the title. So imagine my relief to see that the old curmudgeon is still around.

The infection is obviously not good. That'll teach you to never wash your bl**dy cups up eh? So damn it man, pull yourself together and get over it, so we can lock horns again over some stupid machining operation I'm trying to do. Especially since your lovely wife is from my side of the country, I am looking forward to showing off (ahem) my workshop & shooting the breeze over an oily brew in a filthy mug (I've got one waiting here for you, it hasn't been cleaned in 20 years, I'll have to evict Barry the Mold first though).

Get well soon, fella, looking forward to seeing your acerbic presence on the forums again!

PS: I owe you a tenner, and you have to be here to collect it, OK?

Good luck & keep the antibiotics flowing.

Cheers,

Ade.

[David Jenkins 2Participant @davidjenkins2]

I only 'know' John through his posts. Thought provoking and too the point. Get well soon John you are sorely missed.

[John McNamaraParticipant @johnmcnamara74883]

Best wishes John from another John down under.

[ANDY CAWLEYParticipant @andycawley24921]

Get well soon, someone else needs to keep the CVA flag flying.

[LimpetParticipant @limpet]

I only know John through the posts but always liked his helpful direct opinions. Get well soon

Lionel

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