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taysidedragon:
--- Quote from: Laverda Dave on February 01, 2024, 03:41:08 PM ---The teacher who took me for metalwork, woodwork, TD and motor engineering worked on Concorde as a design engineer. A very talented man who built a harpsichord in his lunch hours and when it was finished he would play it in his lunch hour! He had us building a hovercraft in an after school club. We put a Villiers two stroke engine in it from an invalid car, the school was given three of them by the government for our motor engineering class when they were recalled for safety reasons. All this in a comprehensive school in Acton👍
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I wish that I'd had a metalwork teacher like that!
Luckily I had a good teacher at home. 👍
SteveW:
My metalwork and electronics teacher worked on the Bluebird for the water speed record with Donald Campbell.
When I applied for my electronics apprenticeship he gave me a glowing reference and I was successful.
Laverda Dave:
Have you still got the Myford Garath? Best tool in any workshop 👍
taysidedragon:
--- Quote from: Laverda Dave on February 02, 2024, 10:30:57 PM ---Have you still got the Myford Garath? Best tool in any workshop 👍
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Not that one, my dad upgraded to a Super 7 some years later. That one is in my workshop now.
Lovely bit of kit, just not had much time to use it yet.
Here it is. 👍
McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
Looks a great bit of kit - well out of my ability zone to use any sort of lathe type machine. Never did metalwork at school as it was over subscribed in class so had to do woodwork. My Dovetail joints were the source of huge laughter to the teacher.
I often wish I had a Pillar Drill or a hand that could maintain some semblence of vertical or horizontal.
If that's you Gareth as a boy next to the vice what a great bit of history.👍👍👍
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