Hi All,
Just wanted to say hi and a big thanks to the admin for getting my registration email stuffup fixed.
I'm from the south-east bayside area of Melbourne.
I started tinkering with metal machining over Christmas after inheriting a sizeable collection of tools, workbench, etc last year from my late father. I added to the mix a mini lathe, mill/drill, Mig welder and air compressor, and now I'm having buckets of fun starting out making model engines and other god-knows-whats.
My background is electronics and I'm a computer network engineer by profession.
My first steam engine - a little "David" steam engine off the web worked perfectly first go and was hugely satisfying because:
1/ there were no static sensitive components to be careful of, failures due to dry soldering joints or not quite compatible substitute IC's or transistors,
2/ a steam engine when started running doesn't suffer from fatal exception errors, insufficient memory or blue screens of death. The closest I'd get to a disk error is the flywheel being out of balance!
Anyway, I look forward to what I can learn, share, and possibly impart here.
James.
Just wanted to say hi and a big thanks to the admin for getting my registration email stuffup fixed.
I'm from the south-east bayside area of Melbourne.
I started tinkering with metal machining over Christmas after inheriting a sizeable collection of tools, workbench, etc last year from my late father. I added to the mix a mini lathe, mill/drill, Mig welder and air compressor, and now I'm having buckets of fun starting out making model engines and other god-knows-whats.
My background is electronics and I'm a computer network engineer by profession.
My first steam engine - a little "David" steam engine off the web worked perfectly first go and was hugely satisfying because:
1/ there were no static sensitive components to be careful of, failures due to dry soldering joints or not quite compatible substitute IC's or transistors,
2/ a steam engine when started running doesn't suffer from fatal exception errors, insufficient memory or blue screens of death. The closest I'd get to a disk error is the flywheel being out of balance!
Anyway, I look forward to what I can learn, share, and possibly impart here.
James.
