Thread: 2nd Melbourne Scraping Class.

I won't know until Friday, but I am bidding to be here for the whole course. I'll be behind the coffee machine for most of it, and maybe beavering away at some small project in the background if there is space.

AB, Mike has some Rivett time for you booked too.

Greg

Originally Posted by Pete F

Put a little washer on the screw and then Loctite the screw in. You'll have the flashiest, and probably the only properly functioning, brayer on the day

Pete

I am going to find some old typewriter on ebay and fashion the world's largest brayer, complete with the little bell.

GQ

Originally Posted by Machtool

We picked up another participant last night, from this forum. Frank T. A Melbourne bloke. That makes 13 by paid deposit, still swinging on the other two. The thread at P.M didn’t stir any interest. I might give that a bump Friday. But we are looking good.

We would still squeeze one more in for a 14 – 16 sized class, any more than that and I need a bigger barbeque. Apart from that, I’m nearly organised, this time. Blocks are largely done. I need to run them under a grinder for the odd sides. EDM carbide blanks, are with the wire cutter. They are under the threat of death, to have them here on time. I’m dripping in brayers now. I have a few spare hand scrapers available also.

Dinner.

I best book the pub for dinner, on the Saturday night, by this weekend. Would it be fair to say most of the Interstate blokes would need a feed? Ray G has organised 6 past members also for the social catch up. If I was to book a table / tables for about 18 -20. (6 & 9 interstate).

How many of you local blokes can get a leave pass to stay out for dinner? I just need a rough head count. (Not of rough heads, I mean how many can stay for a feed).

Phil.

I have been away for the last week & have not read any forum messages.
Please count me in for the Saturday night dinner.
regards
Bruce

I suppose you've returned home waterlogged Mike, sorry, I meant Bruce.

Phil, I should have put my hand up earlier to say I would be in attendance for the Saturday dinner.

BT

Originally Posted by Anorak Bob

I suppose you've returned home waterlogged Mike, sorry, I meant Bruce.

Phil, I should have put my hand up earlier to say I would be in attendance for the Saturday dinner.

BT

Bob
The poor weather conditions only permitted a short swim to test the new wetsuit.
Did not get a Scuba Dive in because of dirty water, however played with the boat over a number of days out on the water.
All good !
Mucking around in the workshop this morning, generally getting things "tidy" & going to make the scraper this avo, along the design of RayGs ready for the forthcoming "Scrapefest"
Yippee
Noticed you are back on to the Hercus T & C grinder. I think we will gain a lot of info in Melb in readiness to recondition those slideways.
Bruce

So you blokes are going to leave me cringing in the corner when I front up with my over the counter plastic handled piece of Scandinavian nastiness. And Rod M was telling me on Saturday the last thing I ever want to think about buying is a woodie's lathe.

I just counted all the interstate blokes (8) as needing a feed. It was the local ones that are driving, that I needed to know if they could stay out late, the night before church. (By late, I figure we will have it wrapped up by 9.00 ish).

I booked for 20. A few here nor there won’t matter.

So you blokes are going to leave me cringing in the corner when I front up with my over the counter plastic handled piece of Scandinavian nastiness.

I have that under control. Original Ray G handle’s mixed with Swiss Pfeil handles to which I’ve added ferrules. I came in that Holiday Monday a few weeks ago and knocked up 10 of them.

Phil.

Originally Posted by Greg Q

I am going to find some old typewriter on ebay and fashion the world's largest brayer, complete with the little bell.

GQ

Excellent! If you could run some notes off on the photostat machine that would be good too. We should both find out at the same time whether we'll be able to attend, but I'll send you a telegram to confirm.

Pete

Originally Posted by Pete F

Excellent! If you could run some notes off on the photostat machine that would be good too. We should both find out at the same time whether we'll be able to attend, but I'll send you a telegram to confirm.

Pete

A telegram you say! No need to get so fancy- schmancy, we Tassie wannabes use Cobb's pony express. As a sobering thought...I once worked in a flight operations department that sported a teletype machine, complete with paper tape puncher/reader. It had a rotary dial for addressing the teletype...it sounded like a room full of typists on too much Nescafe.

Originally Posted by Greg Q

A telegram you say! No need to get so fancy- schmancy, we Tassie wannabes use Cobb's pony express. As a sobering thought...I once worked in a flight operations department that sported a teletype machine, complete with paper tape puncher/reader. It had a rotary dial for addressing the teletype...it sounded like a room full of typists on too much Nescafe.

When I first worked for CSIRO in 1980 we had a tty machine hooked to a VAX. 55 baud IIRC.

Also a room full of IBM punch card machines & operators. Us lowly people had to learn to punch our own card decks. FORTRAN 4 on CYBER hardware - those were the days (for masochist programmers.....)

PDW

Originally Posted by Anorak Bob

So you blokes are going to leave me cringing in the corner when I front up with my over the counter plastic handled piece of Scandinavian nastiness.

Hi BT, I'll make sure that there is a comfortable alternative available to your nasty plastic

Talking teletypes, I used to have a model 15 teletype... still got a whole error free page full of RY's around somewhere... 45.45 baud... I can still hear the rattle..

Regards
Ray

I will turn up if someone wants to pay for a plane ticket and accommodation...

Hi all,

Is there a "student list" floating around yet for the course?
Just interested to know who I'm going to meet!
Simon

Originally Posted by simonl

Is there a "student list" floating around yet for the course?

There is, I'll do it in the morning, I didn't get out of work until 9.00

Phil.