Thanks guys, as soon as I read it I knew I should've known that. I guess I am young and have mostly been exposed to more high tech electronic micrometers. Its really cool. Anyway, Thanks a bunch guys, you are all very helpful.
@Tin, I am located in New Brunswick, NJ. I will certainly check out those catalogs and the links you shared. I am not sure that I am ready for, or have the free time to learn the ways of model engine building, however I am very much fascinated and I plan for sure to explore the hobby more as I grow older. For now I am focusing on revitalizing my grandfathers business. Hopefully I can do a service to the model engine and machinist community while also continuing my grandfather's legacy.
I appreciate the feed back everyone and your suggestions for the website, I am taking emails (
[email protected]) or PMs with any suggestions or requests and have already received wonderful support and suggestions.
As for the ads, I will most certainly be cleaning them up. You gotta love those old tripod websites, but the ads can be annoying. I know ads make the web go round, in a sense, but bandwidth, like cellular data is CHEAP. Web hosting is an insanely profitable business and free web space is often given to customers assuming they will upgrade as more traffic comes to their site. This is getting all technical too fast. Bottom line, II have hosting lined up where ads will not be needed at start to sustain the website. In the future, however, if traffic increases and advertising can be sold, I plan to do it on a very selective basis to ensure safe, family-friendly, relevant, useful ads in non obstructive places on the page.
Thanks again guys, I look forward to coming back here for more information, this community is incredibly friendly and knowledgeable.
-Andy