Sunday and still need to work... in shorts since it’s only -15C ( 5F ), w/a nice sunny blue sky. They say with the wind factor it's +/-, -26C …brrrrr )

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And this one, last Thursday for my older son birthday !
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Amicalement, Robert

Gerald,
What is the connection with beards and South Africa?

Heath, I think most of us are lazy.

(I don't know if we have more beards than others - it just seemed that way looking at the above pics :))

No No No, not lazy, just too busy, you know reading forums, thinking about designs, dreaming about the finished product etc etc. (well thats my story anyway and I'm sticking to it)

Ja Alan, your beard is high-maintenance, so we can't accuse you of laziness. I dumped my razor in 1979.

I just figured the South Africans were more manly than the rest of us.:D

Gerald, Alan,
If I could look as distinguished as you fellows with a beard, I would start one tomorrow. :)

My motors have been delivered so its time to come out of hiding. Not yet time for a personal build thread yet, this will be a slooooow build.

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For those of you that are curious this was taken atop of the Pontiac Silverdome.

Hi,

My name is Donald Ross



And these are the kind of things that happen when you have too much time on your hands

Donald is rarely seen around around here, but he holds a very special place in this community. Check the date on that test post - he was the very first guy to get a MechMate cutting outside of my own premises. And from the fly on his table, he is still quietly getting on with it. Of course, he has a nice advantage over the rest of you guys - a decent beard! :)

Donald,

Thanks for being the first. You need a new bug guy, he missed one of those Texas bugs. Nice work!!!!!!!!!

Don,

I have to second that THANKS. Your input and posts were a tremendous help for myself.

Thank You.
Greg

Ed
 

Me and my middle son at my daughters College graduation. I also have two other boys. Iv'e been mainly a steel worker most of my life, just been interested in making guitars and tube amplifiers and other wood work the last 5 years. Nice to see who I am chatting with. Thanks for the photos and thank Gerald D for the website.

Sean, Stefan, Nils, Mechmate
 

What about this little reunion :D:D:D ?


Orlando March 10, 2008

Stefan,
Thanks for a great visit. I hope you weren't disappointed walking around all the "off cut trash" piles around the machine. She has been busy lately.
NOTE: I wonder if we all fit with the MM crowd, we don't have beards :)
Back to cutting.

That photo needs to go on the front page of the sales brochure! :D

I’m must say, I’m amazed with the simplicity and the efficiency of the Mechmate. Seeing it hard at work, I’m sure there is no CNC table in its price range or even 5 times more, that’s more accurate and stronger. This thing cuts plywood like butter! (as long as the bit is sharp that is :) ) Sean, Nils, thanks again for sharing your experience with me!

Gerald, I'm proud to be part of the Mechmate family! You are right up there with guys like Art Fenerty and Mariss Freimanis making professional cnc possible for people on a budget.

Can’t wait to get back to my build!

Stefan :D

Stefan,

It was great to meet you.

I think I can speak for the three of us when I say we are looking forward to the first MM gathering here in Orlando or some place else. It was great to share back grounds and to talk MechMate.

Thanks Gerald!

Great photo guys.

When Ed comes and see's my machine, we'll post pictures of the "Southern Rockies" branch.

Looking forward to the MM conference. Hint, hint. :)

Gerald, you want all of us to come to South Africa? Or can we offer you a ticket to US? :rolleyes:

You would prefer it to come here! ;)

Hello friends.
Nice to meet you all.

Gerald,

Nils is having fun and Sean is also. Laser parts from Joe.

Yesterday, turned out to be a most interesting day.

We turned the table right side up and I started to drill the aluminum so we can marry aluminum and channel for the rails.

The interesting part was after I had packed the truck and I pushed the passenger sit back. About 3 weeks ago, I bought a 2002 Nissan Frontier King Cab. Has a small space behind the Driver and passenger sit for two very small people or for storage. Very nice White truck with grey interior. In very good shape out and in side.

That pushing of the sit back did not sit well with the rattler that was sitting on the floor behind the passenger seat. That is MM Blue rattler spray can! It along with 3 other cans were in a partially closed plastic shopping bag. One of them got pierced by the seat mechanism when I pushed the seat back. The next thing I hearding was the hissing of the can.

It took me a few seconds to associate the hissing sound to the can. I quickly grabbed the bag and pulled them out of the car because I could see blue paint. After removing the bag, I looked inside to see how much damage there was. There was blue paint in many places. There was blue paint on the outside and all over my arms, hands and body. There was also a large gabage size spot on the concrete.

I quickly ran inside and picked up a large container of Minieral Spirits and started cleaning up. Sean's associate brought me a can of Acetone.

I was surprised that I was able to clean the paint off of the inside and outside of the Truck. When I got home, I removed the passenger seat from the truck and continued to find more paint but I was able to clean it up.

It wasn't until I looked in the mirror did I see my face.

Lesson learned: If you are going to carry rattler cans in the inside of your vehicle besure they are safe from puncturing.

A reminder, this thread limited for posting to folk who have put pictures on here. They don't have to look as scary (silence of the lambs?) as the one above :)

Speaking of rattle cans: A friend blew out the front window and dash of his truck a couple of weeks ago. He had left a rattle can of window cleaner on the front seat. It's summer time here where the ambient temperature is in the low 100's F. Obviously, with the windows rolled up, the inside temperature is much greater. It would have done serious personal injury if he had been in the drivers seat.

Gas under pressure can be a scary thing.

I resent one scary guy telling another he is scary but I am in good company so I will take it as a compliment. I got my drivers license renewed today and that is one scary picture. They replace my good picture with some old guy.

Good thing it wasn't the red paint like I used or it would be a really scary picture:D:D

Another SA face
 

Since this is a place where one puts your face on here is mine with my other blue toy next pic will be of another Ford Tracktor blue toy.As one can see there is a blue Ford on the left and the white Ford bakkie is getting some blue stripes soon still looking for some wild designs.Isn`t blue a nice colour!:D

Hello MechMate Clan