Hi, I’m Reed. I grew up in a machine shop in which my grandfather started in the 1930s and my father continued in a reduced capacity to about the end of the 1960s when it officially closed. I’ve been playing with machine tools since my grandfather figured I could be “adding” to the family business (I was punching a timecard starting when I was 7 yrs old). I still use a Johansson mill that I remember running rollers for when it was moved, I was maybe 6 or so. However, I ended up being a computer science engineer/architect for a living after working my way through school doing the one-man machinist shop route. Doing that I learnt didn’t have what it takes to run a machine shop for a living. 😊 Kudos to those that do.
I’m more of a lurker on these forums, HSM/PM, but have added some content on occasion. I joined this one looking for an appropriate place to put a build log for a PMR #4 I recently completed. Not sure the world _needs_ another PMR#4 build log, but I took pictures and kept notes. There are a couple of other models I’ve built, but excepting the Quorn (which one can debate as to whether it is a “model”), this is about the heaviest one.
Thanks, - Reed
