My best "foreigner" at work ever.

[weeman_mtb]

Andy R, interesting stuff but I have to stick to small stuff at my place that I can chuck to the back of the bench at a moment's notice, especially as we have very recently acquired new owners.

My dad did some similar stuff to a Honda CB100 engine when I was a kid to up it to a 150 and run it on methanol. I did some schoolboy grasstrack followed by speedway from age 10 to 17, I used this engine on the speedway when I was about 13. I remember we put the barrel in the oven and the liner had been in the freezer overnight, it dropped in perfectly.

Bloody good engineer my old man, I wouldn't claim to be in that league but I get by.

 

[Andy R]

Andy R, interesting stuff but I have to stick to small stuff at my place that I can chuck to the back of the bench at a moment's notice, especially as we have very recently acquired new owners.

Well, the work that I did on that Honda wasn't done during working hours, even my boss back then wasn't that tolerant - I just had the use of the toolroom during weekends and evenings. Both the other toolmaker and I used to turn up plenty of odd spacers and stuff like that during the day though - he was into bikes too, but road racing.

But then, like you, we fell under new ownership and most of those perks of the job stopped :cry:.
I haven't worked in engineering for nearly twenty years now, but I still miss having a well-equipped toolroom at my disposal

 

[dyna-ti]

Very nice chap ,keep up the good work whats next?

 

[weeman_mtb]

Very nice chap ,keep up the good work whats next?

I've no :idea: at the moment but given a few hours of monotony at work something will pop in there.

I'm afraid with the facilities at work, sky's not the limit. Gearbox on the miller is shot so can't run decent speeds for cutting aluminium, half the teeth are missing from the jaws of the three jaw chuck in the lathe, it's not ideal.

I really enjoy making things on machines that are inappropriate for the job yet get spectacular results. Below are the elastomers (yet to be tested) for my Proflex 552, all done on a cylindrical grinder, naughty but nice :twisted: .

 

[mikee]

thats nice mate , we waterjet elastomers ,well someone does them for me
you should get some machines in your shed bud
i got me a colchester bantam and a sieg x1 mill
i also have 2 home built cnc's ,a mill and an engraver

cnc zone is your other loss of time

 

[Broady]

Good work!

I did a few bits in another thread. Always nice to see people doing their own stuff.

 

[Broady]

Nice work.

You want a job?

I can't find decent engineers for love nor money!

Where are you based? I'm getting itchy feet up here :roll:

 

[JeRkY]

Nice work.

You want a job?

I can't find decent engineers for love nor money!

Where abouts? Anywhere within London range I am tired of living in Oxford during the week!

 

[Russell]

We're in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

Over the past 12 months we've increased our floor space by 50% and invested in three new machines but we just can't find skilled engineers to set/program/operate the machines.

I'm currently training somebody with no CNC experience at all, but he has an engineering background and did a 'proper' apprenticeship years ago so he at least understands the principals of cutting metal and one end of a mic' from the other. He's the best we could find.

Our recruitment is over for now because we're training up a couple of people like the guy above but there are plenty of other companies in a similar position round this way. Gloucestershire is a bit of an engineering hotbed and if you did fancy a move, you'd be hard pressed to find a nicer place to live (in the UK).

 

[JeRkY]

Sounds interesting, my current job is good it's just a little too far from where I want to be, and Gloucestershire is further still. For some unknown reason I am in love with London life.