Joel.The-Guy
Member
Hello everyone. I was really hoping to get an introduction done BEFORE I had to come on and start asking for help and asking questions right away, but life gets in the way of living.
I will pretend that it is two weeks ago , do my intro and then perhaps post another thread asking for help.
So yeah. I'm Joel. I run my own small engine repair business and I've always been involved in playing in a shop in some way or an other. I am originally from NB and had my first job as a mechanic when I was 17. My father was a motorcycle ( small engine mechanic ) for 40+ years and I learned most of what I know from him.
In general I just like to build and fix things. When I'm not working I'm "playing" in my garage with random nonsense. I have a 1976 Austin Mini that I have mostly rebuilt. ( not restored as I don't have the patients or attention for detail required ) It needs paint and a few other little bits but is mostly complete. The Mini got put on hold about 5 years ago when my Gf and I started saving for a downpayment on our house. Then I built a garage... and life happened.
Over the past 10-12 years I have gathered tools to help with my work and also to have fun with in my garage. I have Lincoln Mig welder, Victor Cutmaster 42 plasma cutter, 22 lathe, drill press lots of hand tools and lots of the "normal" shop tools.
I went from owning a SIEG C6 lathe a month or so ago to recently purchasing a King Canada KC1022ML. The reason I decided to get a new lathe was that I wanted to go from using the lathe do the odd shaft repair ( for my business ) to more of a hobby and to work on improving my skill set. I just signed up to this forum but started following along months ago as I was looking for places to get materials in Calgary and came across a few posts while searching Google.
So, that's me. I have a hard time keeping this short and sweet. Hopefully someone enjoys reading my long winded posts
I will now look for an appropriate place to post a few other things.
Cheers !
I will pretend that it is two weeks ago , do my intro and then perhaps post another thread asking for help.
So yeah. I'm Joel. I run my own small engine repair business and I've always been involved in playing in a shop in some way or an other. I am originally from NB and had my first job as a mechanic when I was 17. My father was a motorcycle ( small engine mechanic ) for 40+ years and I learned most of what I know from him.
In general I just like to build and fix things. When I'm not working I'm "playing" in my garage with random nonsense. I have a 1976 Austin Mini that I have mostly rebuilt. ( not restored as I don't have the patients or attention for detail required ) It needs paint and a few other little bits but is mostly complete. The Mini got put on hold about 5 years ago when my Gf and I started saving for a downpayment on our house. Then I built a garage... and life happened.
Over the past 10-12 years I have gathered tools to help with my work and also to have fun with in my garage. I have Lincoln Mig welder, Victor Cutmaster 42 plasma cutter, 22 lathe, drill press lots of hand tools and lots of the "normal" shop tools.
I went from owning a SIEG C6 lathe a month or so ago to recently purchasing a King Canada KC1022ML. The reason I decided to get a new lathe was that I wanted to go from using the lathe do the odd shaft repair ( for my business ) to more of a hobby and to work on improving my skill set. I just signed up to this forum but started following along months ago as I was looking for places to get materials in Calgary and came across a few posts while searching Google.
So, that's me. I have a hard time keeping this short and sweet. Hopefully someone enjoys reading my long winded posts
I will now look for an appropriate place to post a few other things.
Cheers !
