Model Engine Maker
About MEM => Introduce Yourself => Topic started by: RReid on April 12, 2021, 03:47:32 PM
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Hello. I am a retired engineer living in Northern California. While not a trained machinist, I do have some machine shop experience. As a young man I spent a few years running large lathes for an oil field type shop; then later as an engineer I set-up and ran for a time a small R&D shop with a manual lathe and small horizontal mill, and eventually a CNC knee mill.
About two years ago I bought a Taig lathe with a vertical slide and been having a ball since making model engines and tooling bits. A month or two ago I added the Taig mill so now I'm having even more fun! Completed projects to date include a couple of Elmer's engines and a 1:32 scale live steam narrow gauge sorta logging locomotive. I think the knowledge and experience of the members of this forum will help me complete my “apprenticeship”!
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Welcome to the forum! Would love to see some pictures of the models you have done.
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Hello! Welcome. Agreed - would love to see those, and will be happy to hear about your upcoming projects as well.
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Welcome to the forum, RReid!
Kim
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Thank you for the kind welcome. I tried to post some pictures under Showcase - Vehicles and Models. I started a new topic, added the text, added pics as attachments (7, thumbnail size), spell checked, hit the Post button and ... nothing. No error message or warning, but I can't find the post. Too many pics? Too big? New member probation? Or did I just goof somehow?
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Hmm... likely the pics were too big. There is a limit - I think it's a 1MB limit for each attachment.
Did you size your pics down from the standard camera format? Usually, camera JPGs are +5MB each so you need to re-size them down. I tend to size my pics down to 1024x768 pixels wide, or something. Many people use 800x600, but I've found 800 a bit too small so recently changed to 1024. When resized to a smaller size like that most pictures are in the 200KB range which is friendlier for download and provides plenty of detail for forum viewing.
I think it might give you an error message if you wait long enough. I think it tries to upload all the images before it rejects the post. And if you've uploaded several large images that can take a while (most people have much slower upload speeds than download speeds).
Anyway, try making the images smaller and try it again.
Kim
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Thanks Kim. It worked this time. Even though I thought I had resized the pics, checking them again told a different story!