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

In true South African tradition. A Beard! (minus the swimming pool):D
I asked the family years ago: Who will be responsible for cleaning the pool?
Still waiting for a answer.;)

Johan,

Don't worry about the answer. They will tell you what you want to hear. :mad: Believe me! I have a pool and guess who does everything. :eek: After 10 years I still hear "I don't know how to..."

:(

Marc,
I regret the decision every summer but is to proud to admit it!:D

Er, Marc, this thread is closed for folk who havn't shown their "mugs" - we'll give you some time to fix that . . . . :D

Busted! :p Gerald, nothing gets by you! When I typed that, I waited with baited breath! I take a lot of pictures but I am not in many. I hate that side of the camera:mad:. I waited a couple of days for a bit of whiskers. Thought I would fit in a bit better.:D

Incidentally, I made that table in the picture. It is made of molded concrete in the style invented by Buddy Rhodes. www.buddyrhodes.com It is 60 inches (~150 cm.) square, about 2 inches (~5 cm.) thick and the top alone weights about 400 lbs. (~180 kg.) The base is made from 3 inch (~75 mm.) steel angle, painted with black car paint and bolted together. It weighs about 200 lbs. (~90 kg.).

The whole thing is solid as a rock (wait, it is a rock) and I love it. It seats 8 comfortably. My neighbors think it is a solid hunk of marble. (Shhh! Don’t tell them.)

Johan, I thought about finally typing this because I just got done taking care of the pool and it is time to go to bed. (Naturally, the rest of the family has been in bed for quite some time.) That is the point I was making in the earlier post. Oh well. :confused:

Good to see you at last buddy!:) I like your table.
You will have to get some extra help on that pool so that you can spend more time building the blue machine. I know a pool is not a major maintenance job in our country anymore. Kobus should be able to give you tips on that. Just post us another picture in a couple of months time to show us your full beard :D:cool:

If you have trouble with a pool change it into a koi pond much more relaxing:)

A summary:

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I was beginning to think Marc wasn't going to post a picture of himself in fear of someone making a link to his other picture (the one in the post office) :eek: :D ;)

A little pix from Tennessee. Just call me Jack.

Nice beard Jack :)

Welcome.

Welcome Jack.

I see another red MM coming up, to join ED's :D

What is this thing about the beards?:) seems it is becoming a trademark of guys building MM:)HI Jack!

Hennie

9 out of 26 is not a trend, it is just being lazy!

Some of us CAN....:p

Next time someone starts their build it must start like this "I am new to this forum orderd steel ,motors,parts and started growing a beard":)there is no time for shaving once you start building.
Kobus I can also but my children don`t like it they get scared of the oom.:D

For me the beard thing came when I went on vacation one year with the family.
About 19 years ago. I just got lazy and didn't shave. Wife like it, so it stayed.

Now my kids (20 and 23) don't remember me without one!

I think of shaving it off occasionally, but then it sounds like to much work anymore. ;)

YRD - Long beards
 

Hi guys,

This is my version welder. :D

I am a motorcyclist and work with insurance for motorcycles.

If you have any questions, I'm the guy on the left. :eek:

The right to my wife Lu, also rider and we work together (not in MM)

Nice boney's (bikes) I have been a biker all my life but never got to own a Harley. I am in the process of restoring 2 x old (1981) Suzuki GS 1000 G Shaft driven bikes....one for myself and one for my son. Back in my day's when I was young and beautifull I did own one of these bikes....now I am not that young any more...

This is me in last year new years eve party


Little bio: I'm 40 years old, wifey and 7 years old kid and one more due in less than a month (around end october/2008) work and live in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Some of my webpages will give and idea about what I like to do and my work:
www.peu.net
www.syil.com.ar
www.neoca.com.ar
www.elasadodelosviernes.com.ar

cheers!