• Scam Alert. Members are reminded to NOT send money to buy anything. Don't buy things remote and have it shipped - go get it yourself, pay in person, and take your equipment with you. Scammers have burned people on this forum. Urgency, secrecy, excuses, selling for friend, newish members, FUD, are RED FLAGS. A video conference call is not adequate assurance. Face to face interactions are required. Please report suspicions to the forum admins. Stay Safe - anyone can get scammed.

A lurker's intro

K

kstrauss

Super User
I've been lurking here for a while so making a belated intro. I'm a long retired computer geek living in Cobourg, ON (about 100km east of Toronto on Lake Ontario). Hobbies include cooking/eating, electronics, local politics and of course most anything machine shop related. Workshop toys include Tormach 770-3 CNC mill, Myford S7, KO Lee T&C grinder, 7x12 horizontal bandsaw and...
 
Welcome aboard. Enjoy your stay and thanks for your future contributions.
Nice machinery for "computer geek"
 
kstrauss said:
Millbrook, Dan? If you (or anyone else) will be in my area text, me at 905-396-9854 and we can get together for chat/coffee. I've been a TSME member for perhaps 20 years if you know any of that crowd.
Click to expand...
I'm in Kendal. I found out about TSME just before the pandemic, and have thought about joining, but afraid I don't do any model machining. Yet. Are they back to normal and having in person meetings again? It would be nice to meet up with some local guys once in a while.
 
Last edited:
Dan Dubeau said:
I'm in Kendal. I found out about TSME just before the pandemic, and have thought about joining, but afraid I don't do any model machining. Yet. Are they back to normal and having in person meetings again? It would be nice to meet up with some local guys once in a while.
Click to expand...
Currently TSME meets via Zoom twice a month. Pre-COVID they met at the Don Mills library but it is closed for renovations. Zoom has really enabled things. I mostly stopped attending when I moved to here from Toronto but I now participate in most meetings and we even have members in New Brunswick and BC. I don't make models but there are some talented members in TSME and I have lots to learn from them.
 
Perhaps I'll give it another look, and try to join in.

I think there's a member here from Port Hope, and another from Newcastle, as well as a few from Peterborough, so there are a few guys around us.
 
Dan Dubeau said:
Perhaps I'll give it another look, and try to join in.

I think there's a member here from Port Hope, and another from Newcastle, as well as a few from Peterborough, so there are a few guys around us.
Click to expand...
TSME has always been about hobbies, my dad e.g. built wooden ship models from scratch, and presented them at TSME meetings. The only thing they ask is that you share what you are doing or having challenges with or had some epipheny about. Presently there is 3D printed sail boat happening amongst steam engines and more. I've been a member off and on since mid-1960's. It's never boring.
Like Ken I am thankful for Zoom, the drive from west end toronto was no fun on Fri eve, from St C. it is not happening at all.
 
Welcome from Farm country South of Chatham Ontario. I too was a lurker before I joined. Never regretted joining. Love your machinery list. Wish I had a tool grinder but I do have a KO Lee Surface grinder that I enjoy very much.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top