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New guy from Midwestern Ontario

LenVW said:
Welcome from the South Kitchener area.
I went to CHSS in Clinton and apprenticed at Ex-Cell-O in Clinton in the 1980s.
Went back to college and business school to develop industrial processes.
I spent much of my youth in the Bayfield, Goderich and Seaforth area.
’OBA’ that you mentioned . . . Broom ball ?
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Baseball. He played for Kincardine
 
Lots of baseball in the towns back then.
We played a lot of Fastball in Clinton in the 1990s.

I was a machinist apprentice with Ex-Cell-O back in the 1980s.
The recession came along and I had the opportunity to go back to school and study machinery development. I designed equipment for the next 30 years and ran dozens of capital machinery projects in Food Processing, Extruded Plastic, Fluid Pumping Systems and Metal Fabrication.

Welcome to this group of hobbyists.
If you have any questions, these guys have answers.
 
I still remember my metal shop teacher Mr Dixon around 1968 he drove a VW bug.
Seeing as it’s the last week of school can we make a VW?
 
Tom O said:
I still remember my metal shop teacher Mr Dixon around 1968 he drove a VW bug.
Seeing as it’s the last week of school can we make a VW?
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They used to bus in folks to CHSS from all over Huron County because we had a lot of Tech. Shop equipment.
Radial Arm drill, (6) Knee Mills, (4) Lathes, (2) Cincinnati Horizontal mills and a couple shapers.

I think they turned it into an adult training centre since 2000.

In 1980, Mr. MacDonald taught machine shop, Mr. Blackmore was sheet metal, Mr. Craig ran the building construction, Mr. Cook was the auto shop instructor, Electrical & Electronics was by Mr. Doherty.
I think I learned the most from our Mechanical Technology teacher Mr. deGroot.
Lots of design work and layouts before any chips hit the floor.
I still look back at notes from his classes.
 
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