Greetings from the East Riding of Yorkshire

bmac2 said:

Welcome to the forum Jenny. That’s a nice space but now I feel that I should really give my little shop a good spring cleaning. I can’t quite make it out but do you have an air spring damper on you mill? If not it’s a simple mod and I wish I’d done it the day I brought it home.

https://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/threads/more-mini-mill-mods.27062/

Oh. And the rain? I’ll trade ya. . . . .
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Jennifer Edwards said:

Hi There,

My name is Jennifer, I am a recent addition to this "family" of model engineers. I have recently retired and relocated to the United Kingdom from the Tampa Bat area of Floriduh, and have settled here in Bridlington.

I have just put together my little machin shop and have only just begun my first project, a scale model stationary steam engine. I am building a 1/12 scale of a Stothert & Pitt Beam Engine that was originally built in 1886. A single example exists today at the univrsity at Bath.

when I was still in school I worked as a machinist for a machine builder, mainly on engine and turret lathes, also did some work on large horizontal milling machines, and also setup an ran a giant sized vertical lathe. All the work was was high precision never more than a couple of tenths of a thousandth of an inch tolorances.

After school I used my degree in computer science to work in that then infant field of business applications architecture. Somehow I always missed the sense of accomplihment i got from actually creating something tangable that I put my love into ,rather than lines of code that no other human would ever read.

SO.... here I am with the time, the means, and the ambition to once again enjoy the world of engineering, except this time on a much smaller scale. I look forward to interacting with this community in the comming months and years!

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here is a pic of my machine shop inside the conservatory. which has all glass walls and ceiling, afforing plenty of natural light. When its not pouring down like it was the day I took This Photograph.

Cheers!
Jenny

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Jennifer Edwards said:

Hi There,

My name is Jennifer, I am a recent addition to this "family" of model engineers. I have recently retired and relocated to the United Kingdom from the Tampa Bat area of Floriduh, and have settled here in Bridlington.

I have just put together my little machin shop and have only just begun my first project, a scale model stationary steam engine. I am building a 1/12 scale of a Stothert & Pitt Beam Engine that was originally built in 1886. A single example exists today at the univrsity at Bath.

when I was still in school I worked as a machinist for a machine builder, mainly on engine and turret lathes, also did some work on large horizontal milling machines, and also setup an ran a giant sized vertical lathe. All the work was was high precision never more than a couple of tenths of a thousandth of an inch tolorances.

After school I used my degree in computer science to work in that then infant field of business applications architecture. Somehow I always missed the sense of accomplihment i got from actually creating something tangable that I put my love into ,rather than lines of code that no other human would ever read.

SO.... here I am with the time, the means, and the ambition to once again enjoy the world of engineering, except this time on a much smaller scale. I look forward to interacting with this community in the comming months and years!

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here is a pic of my machine shop inside the conservatory. which has all glass walls and ceiling, afforing plenty of natural light. When its not pouring down like it was the day I took This Photograph.

Cheers!
Jenny

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Apprentice707 said:

My only real comment is why would you trade the climate of Tampa for Bridlington?? Must be a romantic thing.


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