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DarrylH 07-28-2014 08:54 PM

New from West Oz.
 
G'day,

I've recently (couple of years) taken up metal work after 35 years break. Our metal work teacher at school was the sort of guy who wasn't at all interested in anything but abuse unless you were "gifted" which, clearly, I wasn't. So I've spent half a live time "afraid" of metal.

I've been building a couple of flight simulators for 8-10 years and as I've gone on I have been less and less satisfied with wood "solutions". So I started working some small items in aluminium, learning as I went... from wasted materials, hours of redos, many non life threatening cuts, gouges, bruises etc and a command of parts of the English language surpassing even that of a drunken, very annoyed, sailor.

18 months ago I bit the bullet and bought a lathe and a milling machine along with several nice toys to match. Since then I've been learning that metal is, in many ways, easier to work than wood..BUT you need to know a lot more about what you are doing.

I'm now l looking at whether it is possible to do bigger projects (fuselage frames etc) without bending machines and such..as I am out of room for machinery but have work space free.

That's it in a nutshell really. I spend my weeks behind a desk so it is good to use my hands on the weekends.

I'm looking forward to "meeting" you guys and hopefully learning something so that in the long term I can give back,

Peter Tommasini 07-28-2014 10:18 PM

Hi Darryl welcome to the forum
Peter

David Gardiner 07-29-2014 01:34 AM

Hi Darryl,

Welcome to allmetalshaping.

David

RockHillWill 07-29-2014 05:15 AM

Welcome to the forum Darryl

the hammerworks 07-29-2014 06:14 PM

welcome to the forum daryll

DarrylH 07-30-2014 12:28 AM

Thanks for the warm welcome Peter, David, Will and Clive!

ekdave1962 07-30-2014 02:52 PM

hi mate there a few wa shapers on here hunt em down and say hi

DarrylH 07-30-2014 11:20 PM

Thanks David,

I will do.

HEATNBEAT 07-31-2014 10:37 AM

Hi Darryl and welcome!:D

DarrylH 07-31-2014 10:24 PM

Cheers Rick, glad to be here.


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