Hello from SW Ontario

[Susquatch]

You are lucky to have some space, my basement room is limiting but cozy.

Woah - an old fashioned drawing board! I love it!

I can use CAD just fine but still prefer pencil and paper.

 

[Susquatch]

Welcome from SK. I also never saw your post till this morning.

I think the forum software burped again.....

 

[LenVW]

Small world! I went to high school in Wingham at F.E. Madill. At one point, I was well-acquainted with gravel running on way too many of those back roads!

Craig

Craig - Were you from ‘Swinging Wingham’ ?
Everybody gets more familiar when they communicate.

I mention ‘gravel running’ to people from the GTA and they ask me . . .
Is that like track and field on a non-asphalt surface ?
Those were the days !!

 

[trlvn]

Craig - Were you from ‘Swinging Wingham’ ?
Everybody gets more familiar when they communicate.

I mention ‘gravel running’ to people from the GTA and they ask me . . .
Is that like track and field on a non-asphalt surface ?
Those were the days !!

"Swinging Wingham"? No one ever described the town in those terms that I knew of! There were some cute girls that went roller skating at the Howick Community Centre, though...

And, no, my hometown was Lucknow. Which is on the dividing line between Huron and Bruce Counties but technically part of Bruce. Nonetheless, Wingham is a lot closer than the high schools in Walkerton or Kincardine so they sensibly shipped us there.

Thank God that kids are a lot more sensible these days about driving drunk. Kids that I knew died in car crashes at least 3 different times and yet we still did it damn near every weekend. Hard to believe that we couldn't put 2 and 2 together.

Craig

 

[LenVW]

I hear you Craig.
We could be pretty stupid as well, in our younger years.
I think we were just trying to keep up with the other kids.
I knew a couple of Central Huron S.S. acquaintances who also departed too early.

‘Swinging Wingham’ was the nickname for the FM station - 102 CKNX . LOL

Hey did you get your mill out of the garage or is your wife’s car still in the lane ?

 

[trlvn]

Yup, my round column is in the basement:



This picture is a couple of weeks old. I've been trying to get going on a little project that will need the rotary table I picked up before Christmas. That turned into making tee-nuts for the RT as well as studs to attach the RT to the mill's table. With a sidetrack into a better tapping system for the lathe. But I've actually made chips with both the mill and lathe!

Craig

 

[LenVW]

Yup, my round column is in the basement:

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This picture is a couple of weeks old. I've been trying to get going on a little project that will need the rotary table I picked up before Christmas. That turned into making tee-nuts for the RT as well as studs to attach the RT to the mill's table. With a sidetrack into a better tapping system for the lathe. But I've actually made chips with both the mill and lathe!

Craig

Looks good - Craig !!
Bright lighting and lots of elevated storage reduces the chance of small tooling being kicked under other pieces in the workshop.
I am a strong supporter of an organized, well lit workshop.
A dingy space does nothing for the creative utilization of the tools you have on hand.
”Innovation shines in the light of day”

 

[Chicken lights]

‘Swinging Wingham’ was the nickname for the FM station - 102 CKNX . LOL

THANK YOU!! Nobody’s ever been able to explain to me how Swingham got it’s nickname!!

 

[trlvn]

I did listen to CKNX during high school. In fact, I won two tickets to the premiere of Star Wars (the first one) plus a sound track album when I was the correct caller! The radio/TV station was right next to the high school so I just walked over at lunch to pick up my winnings. Pretty sure I still have the album.

Craig

 

[LenVW]

I am pretty sure that I saw the original STAR WARS at the Park theatre on the Courthouse Square in Goderich.
We might have been at the same show.

May the FORCE be with you !!

 

[Former Member]

A scholar and a poet, who knew !!

I used to work for SIHI Vacuum Pump Systems in Guelph and there was a standing joke about piping
circuit assemblers being LEAKY and designers being WETHEADS.

You are lucky to have some space, my basement room is limiting but cozy.

I sure miss my old track arm, that was an old ONT Hydro unit from a friend of mines mom University days.

 

[LenVW]

I sure miss my old track arm, that was an old ONT Hydro unit from a friend of mines mom University days.

When Kellogg’s in London switched to Integraph CAD I was able to buy the track-arm.
Prior to the switch Kellogg’s laid out all their equipment designs on the board. There used to be 10 teams of Engineers, Designers and Procurement agents working on process flow (P&IDs) and planning schematics that were used as models for Kellogg’s plants all over NA.