Steamer has reminded me, for which I thank him, that I haven't posted a new-member intro.
I'm in Owl's Head, Maine, quite near the fine collection of old airplanes and cars at The Transportation Museum. A visit there on a nice summer's weekend day when they are flying or having one of their specialty shows (motorcycles, old trucks, etc.) is a pleasant activity that I think most of the members on MEM would enjoy. I and my wife are retired and have been Mainers, first as part-timers then as full-timers, for 30 years, after joint career in academics and medical research.
I first began on this site as a lurker after selling a Myford Super-7 to a member here, and have had a special interest in following Jo's excellent account of her construction of a Boulton & Watt 1802 bellcrank engine, as I am building a model of the same engine using a set of Anthony Mount's Polly castings. In addition to such models I have been interested and active in model marine steam, welding, and blacksmithing, and have done a bit of fullsize boatbuilding. I enjoy toolmaking. Outside of shop work, I target shoot (air pistol and .45) and row (single sculling in a Van Dusen racing single).
I have a Clausing 5936 lathe and a Rockwell mill plus other common home workshop machines, including wheel and belt grinders, belt sander, scrollsaw, table saw, horizontal saw, Walker-Turner 16" vertical bandsaw, HS Hammer sensitive DP, and others, and the usual assortment of tooling to go with them. I don't have room for two additional machines I'd like to own, a surface grinder and a planer. I am a longtime member of the New England Model Engineering Society, based at the Museum of Industry, in Waltham, Massachusetts.
-Marty-
