nemo
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Hello all from SE Kansas. I thought I would stop in and make my introductory post. My name is Kevin. I thought it was time to make my first post since I registered here on January 3, 2011 and have already logged 21+ hours reading posts and looking at pictures.
I grew up on a small farm helping my dad engineer, build and repair all of our worn out equipment and the vehicles we drove. While going to college to receive my BS in biology one of the jobs I had was running an antique, paper tape operated CNC, nine head embroidery machine. There were a lot of mechanic skills required to keep that thing in production. After graduation and in between biology jobs I got a job at Chanute Manufacturing where my dad worked as a pipe welder.
http://www.optimus-tulsa.com/index.htm
I operated their big (40 plus foot) CNC burning table. Sixteen years later I'm still there. From my start in the layout department, I became an ASME certified pipe welder for several years, worked in QC in all departments for several years and am now classified as a fabricator and spend most of my time fitting and TIG welding HRSG tubes.
I'm equipped with a Harbor Freight 9x20 lathe and a drill press and have built a tin can stirling engine. I will be mounting my new 6 inch four jaw chuck next week and plan to build the EZ engine for beginners designed by the members of this board. A small chinese mill may be in my future also but I plan to work with what I have for now and get it properly tooled up. Ultimate goal at some point in the future is to build an IC hit and miss farm type model engine.
I really enjoy my time here looking at what everyone else is doing and hope to contribute where I can.
Kevin
I grew up on a small farm helping my dad engineer, build and repair all of our worn out equipment and the vehicles we drove. While going to college to receive my BS in biology one of the jobs I had was running an antique, paper tape operated CNC, nine head embroidery machine. There were a lot of mechanic skills required to keep that thing in production. After graduation and in between biology jobs I got a job at Chanute Manufacturing where my dad worked as a pipe welder.
http://www.optimus-tulsa.com/index.htm
I operated their big (40 plus foot) CNC burning table. Sixteen years later I'm still there. From my start in the layout department, I became an ASME certified pipe welder for several years, worked in QC in all departments for several years and am now classified as a fabricator and spend most of my time fitting and TIG welding HRSG tubes.
I'm equipped with a Harbor Freight 9x20 lathe and a drill press and have built a tin can stirling engine. I will be mounting my new 6 inch four jaw chuck next week and plan to build the EZ engine for beginners designed by the members of this board. A small chinese mill may be in my future also but I plan to work with what I have for now and get it properly tooled up. Ultimate goal at some point in the future is to build an IC hit and miss farm type model engine.
I really enjoy my time here looking at what everyone else is doing and hope to contribute where I can.
Kevin
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