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No. 127 November 2006 © 2006 NEMES Editor’s Desk Victor Kozakevich Gazette Staff Editor Victor Kozakevich Publisher Bob Neidorff Events Editor Bill Brackett Meeting Notes Todd Cahill NEMES officers President Dick Boucher Vice Pres. Frank Dorion Treasurer Richard Koolish Secretary Todd Cahill Membership Secretary Ed Borgeson Director Mike Boucher NEMES web site http://www.neme-s.org Contact Addresses Victor Kozakevich, Editor 4A Sherman St Cambridge, MA 01238 [email protected] Dick Boucher, President 130 West Main St Georgetown, MA 01833 [email protected] Richard Koolish, Treasurer 212 Park Ave. Arlington, MA 02476-5941 [email protected] Ed Borgeson, Membership 11 Peck Ave. Wayland, MA 01778 [email protected] Bob Neidorff, Publisher 39 Stowell Road Bedford, NH 03110 [email protected] Bill Brackett, Event Editor 29 East Main St Northborough MA 01532 [email protected] Read an article about the history of oil, and learned that it once used as a weapon, centuries before we learned to fight over it. Greek and Roman tourists marveled over the black pools of it bubbling to the surface in the place now called Iraq. The locals thought it was a smelly nuisance, though they would some- times use it as skin medicine for their animals. Over time, its ability to keep burning prompted some brave soul to mix it with saltpeter, the oxidant in black powder. The resulting compound called “Greek Fire” could spontaneously combust, and was used in grenades hurled by catapults at enemy ships. The liquid could be pumped through tubes like a primitive flamethrower. North America also had some oil springs in Western Pennsylvania. In the early 1800’s, some enterprising folks discovered the Senaca Indians using it as medicine, then bottled it and sold it in stores as “Seneca oil”. Refining was developed in the mid 1800’s and gave us the modern world. Next Meeting Thursday, Nov. 2, 2006 7:00 PM. Meetings held at: Charles River Museum of Industry 154 Moody Street Waltham, Massachusetts Membership Info Annual dues of $25 (via checks made payable to "NEMES" and mailed to our membership secretary) for the calendar year are due by December 31 st of the prior year. Missing a Gazette? Send mail or email to our publisher. Addresses are in the left column. Contents Editor’s Desk............................................ 1 President’s Corner .................................. 2 The Meeting ............................................. 3 Cabin Fever .............................................. 4 Treasurer’s Report .................................. 4 NEMES Gazette Editorial Schedule ..... 4 Web Sites of Interest ............................... 4 For Sale..................................................... 4 NEMES clothing ...................................... 5 Upcoming Events ..................................... 5 Letters....................................................... 6
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No. 127 November 2006 © 2006 NEMES
Editor’s DeskVictor Kozakevich
Gazette StaffEditor Victor KozakevichPublisher Bob NeidorffEvents Editor Bill BrackettMeeting Notes Todd Cahill
NEMES officersPresident Dick BoucherVice Pres. Frank DorionTreasurer Richard KoolishSecretary Todd CahillMembershipSecretary Ed BorgesonDirector Mike Boucher
NEMES web sitehttp://www.neme-s.org
Contact AddressesVictor Kozakevich, Editor4A Sherman StCambridge, MA [email protected]
Dick Boucher, President130 West Main StGeorgetown, MA [email protected]
Richard Koolish, Treasurer212 Park Ave.Arlington, MA [email protected]
Ed Borgeson, Membership11 Peck Ave.Wayland, MA [email protected]
Bob Neidorff, Publisher39 Stowell RoadBedford, NH [email protected]
Bill Brackett, Event Editor29 East Main StNorthborough MA [email protected]
Read an article about the history of oil,and learned that it once used as aweapon, centuries before we learnedto fight over it.
Greek and Roman tourists marveledover the black pools of it bubbling tothe surface in the place now calledIraq. The locals thought it was a smellynuisance, though they would some-times use it as skin medicine for theiranimals.
Over time, its ability to keep burningprompted some brave soul to mix itwith saltpeter, the oxidant in blackpowder. The resulting compound called“Greek Fire” could spontaneouslycombust, and was used in grenadeshurled by catapults at enemy ships.The liquid could be pumped throughtubes like a primitive flamethrower.
North America also had some oilsprings in Western Pennsylvania. Inthe early 1800’s, some enterprisingfolks discovered the Senaca Indiansusing it as medicine, then bottled it andsold it in stores as “Seneca oil”.
Refining was developed in the mid1800’s and gave us the modern world.
Next MeetingThursday, Nov. 2, 20067:00 PM. Meetings held at:Charles River Museum of Industry154 Moody StreetWaltham, Massachusetts
Membership InfoAnnual dues of $25 (via checksmade payable to "NEMES" andmailed to our membershipsecretary) for the calendar yearare due by December 31st of theprior year.
Missing a Gazette? Send mail oremail to our publisher.
Addresses are in the left column.
ContentsEditor’s Desk............................................1President’s Corner ..................................2The Meeting .............................................3Cabin Fever..............................................4Treasurer’s Report..................................4NEMES Gazette Editorial Schedule .....4Web Sites of Interest ...............................4For Sale.....................................................4NEMES clothing ......................................5Upcoming Events.....................................5Letters.......................................................6
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President’s CornerDick Boucher
The MeetingThe guest speaker for the November meetingwill be Leonard Solomon. Leonard designs andbuilds what can only be described as veryunusual musical instruments with equallyunusual names such as “The MajesticBellowphone”, a cross between a pipe organ aFrench horn and a drum kit. Norm Jones and Imet Leonard at Dave Dearborn’s engine /steamshow this spring and after a few minutesdiscussion with him about his instrument and it’sconstruction we both immediately said “GuestSpeaker”. Items of interest that he will discussare the valving mechanism for the pipe organportion of the instrument and the unique methodhe uses to fabricate the bellows that drives theinstrument. I am sure he will also play a coupleselections in a classical motif for our enjoyment.
Miscellaneous Ramblings
For those of you who haven’t seen the Yahoo®NEMES group or website Bea and I visited theYankee Farmer farm stand in Greenfield NH towitness what can only be described a very unusualand interesting event. The group up there has built aTrebuchet called Yankee Siege that stands 56 feethigh weighs in at 52,000 pounds and can hurl an 8-10 pound pumpkin, with enough velocity to make itwhistle as it flies, 2000 feet. The machine is therecord holder two years in a row at the PunkinChunkin competition in Delaware. The latest recordis 1702 feet. The demonstrations in October werefine-tuning the machine for the completion. Manythanks to Bill Brackett and his wife for supplyingErrol with the pictures for the web site.
More at: http://www.yankeesiege.com/faq.html
Also of interest to some of you will be an openhouse on November 4, 2006 at the Noack OrganCompany., Inc. Main and School Streets inGeorgetown, Mass. The organ on display is a 14stop two manual organ for the grove City CollegeGrove City Pennsylvania. The instruments built atNoack are tracker action and the various shopswhere parts are built are open for inspection. Quiteoften there is a recital demonstrating the instrumentduring the open house. The open house is from 1 to4 PM.
Dick B.
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The Meeting Todd Cahill
The October meeting was brought to order byvenerable president Dick Boucher at precisely7PM. Director of the Charles River Museum ofIndustry, Dan Yeager thanked NEMES for its$1000 contribution to the museum. With AlGoldberg standing by, Dan also announced thepotential partnership of the museum with theChestnut Hill Waterworks site. The museumwould act as overseer of this historic civilengineering site. The site is expected to beopen to the public in one year. Hopefully thosein charge and the community at large will beconvinced of the importance of these pumpengines (think Kew Bridge in London).
President Emeritus Norm Jones promoted theshow at the Precision Museum in Windsor,Vermont as well as recapping the show held atthe Wireless and Steam Museum in EastGreenwich, RI. President Dick Boucher askedfor a preliminary show of hands from those whowould like to go on the annual bus trip to theCabin Fever Show in York, PA.
With that Dick introduced the guest speakersfor the evening, Lorene Lamb, with her sonJacob and Christina Anderson Hoke with herson, Chivon. They all belong to a home schoolcooperative, once a week they meet with otherhome schooled groups to share lesson plans,resources, etc. After reading The Lord of TheRings (and perhaps seeing the movies?) thechildren became interested in medievalcatapults and trebuchets. Their parents saw anopportunity for a lesson. Christina did somehistorical research and they found plans for atrebuchet online at RLT.com. The plans theyfound called for the use of common materials
found at hardware stores such as PVC and plywood.They augmented these materials with some wheelsused on remote controlled cars. After assemblingthe pieces they had cut at the hardware store,adjustments needed to be made in order to get thetrebuchet to throw properly. After throwing a golf ballstraight up and even backwards, they were able toimprove their accuracy and eventually were able tothrow the ball 35’. A demo was given using a softjuggling ball with the result being 2 ground ball outsto second base. The group was invited back to themuseum by the oil can gang on Thursdays, perhapsto show them how things should get put together.
Rounding off the evening was NEMES member andrenowned chucker of large squashes, Jeff de Palpa.Jeff recently led a group of home- schooled kids inbuilding various “weapons of vegetable destruction.”The lessons began with participants discoveringthings by disassembling them. The knowledgegained doing this was used to make a bocci playingmachine using various pieces of junk. The machinewas used in a competition with other groups’contraptions in a bocci game. Interestingly enough,Jeff claimed the most successful bocci playingmachine was a result of knowledge of the game, notjust mechanical aptitude. The second project tackledby the group was a traction trebuchet, of course. Jeffhad a time- lapse video of the process of buildingthe trebuchet with many amusing scenarios of kidsrepeatedly putting things together taking them apartand putting them together again. Jeff also showedfootage of his participation in the British televisionshow “Junkyard Wars.” The episode he participatedin was in celebration of famed British engineer,Isembard Kingdom Brunel’s 200th birthday. Jeff’sgroup built a paddle wheel boat using an oldcement-mixing tank. Could it make it from England
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to Australia and back again without refuelinglike Brunel’s SS Great Britain? I think not,however it did come in first in a race with theother “boats” built for the show.
Todd
Cabin Fever
Show dates: January 20th & 21st, 2007
We are starting a sign up list for the bus trip toCabin Fever. I will have the list at the NovemberMeeting or folks can e-mail or phone me to signup.
Dick B.
Treasurer’sReportRichard Koolish
Balance as of September 19, 2006October Gazette printingBalance as of October 19, 2006
6590.63-154.586436.05
NEMES GazetteEditorial Schedule2006
Here are the closing dates for Gazette writtencontributions in the coming months:
Issue closing date for contributionsDecember November 24, 2006
Web Sites ofInterest
Sign up for the NEMES mailing list at:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nemes
A model museum to visit when in London. Note theGellerat steam road roller, 1881, by Mrs. Cherry Hillhttp://www.imeche.org.uk/gallery/choosecard.asp?picSubject=MO
For Sale
Shaper Work CDPut out in 1944 by the New York State educationDepartment this 326 page manual is chock full ofvaluable tips and information on using the King ofMachine tools....The Shaper. Covered is everythingyou need to know about the care and feeding of theshaper, use of the shaper, even how to sharpentools for the shaper. Scanned and saved in AdobeAcrobat format. The CD now has a lot more info onit, and the price has increased accordingly. $10.00,shipping included.
Errol Groff180 Middle RoadPreston, CT 06365 [email protected]
Power hacksaw, surface grinderHeavy duty Racine power hacksaw on roll aroundbase, has coolant tank built in. 220 VAC, 14" blade.Footprint 48"X16". $200 or best offer.
Nyberg & Westering vertical spindle surface grinder$500
Contact Gem Welding 978 640 0507 -Les
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NEMES clothing
NEMES Tee ShirtsNEMES tee shirts and sweat shirts are availablein sizes from S to XXXL. The tee shirts aregray, short sleeve shirt, Hanes 50-50. Youwon’t shrink this shirt! The sweat shirts are thesame color, but long sleeve and a crew neck.Also 50-50, but these are by Lee. The sweatshirts are very comfortable!
Artwork by Richard Sabol, printed on front andback:
Rear Front
Prices:
Tee Shirts Sweat ShirtsS - L $12.00 $22.00XXL $14.00 $24.00XXXL $15.00 $25.00
Add $5 shipping and handling for the first teeshirt, $1 for each additional shirt shipped to thesame address. Sweat shirts are $7 for shippingthe first, and $1.50 for each additional sweatshirt.
Profits go to the club treasury.
Mike Boucher10 May’s Field RdLunenburg, MA [email protected]
NEMES Shop Apron
Look your best in the shop! The NEMES shop apronkeeps clothes clean while holding essentialmeasuring tools in the front pockets. The customstrap design keeps weight off your neck and easilyties at the side. The apron is washable blue denimwith an embroidered NEMES logo on top pocket.
Contact Rollie Gaucher 508-885-2277
UpcomingEventsBill Brackett
To add an event, please send a brief description,time, place and a contact person to call for furtherinformation to Bill Brackett [email protected] or (508) 393-6290.
Bill
Nov 2nd Thursday 7PMNEMES Monthly club meetingCharles River Museum of Industry 781-893-5410Waltham, MA
Nov 3-5 World Championship Punkin Chunkhttp://www.worldchampionshippunkinchunkin.com/
Dec 7th Thursday 7PMNEMES Monthly club meetingCharles River Museum of Industry 781-893-5410Waltham, MA
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Letters
I just received this email from Andy Batorywould like to include it in the Gazette. I will pickup a card and bring it to the Nov. meeting formembers to sign.
Errol
Dear Errol and Kay,
I am writing to you about two different subjects.One is about a get well card for Dave Sobel andthe other is about AMES milling machines.
I live in Canada. I've occasionally orderedmachine parts from Dave Sobel in NJ. I am sureyou know who he is. Today his son Peterphoned me about something I am purchasingand I found out that Dave has been in thehospital for some time. Dave Sobel is an iconfor us home machinists.
Wouldn't it be nice to have a get well cardsigned by your club members at your next meetand sent to him? I am sure it would besomething very special to him.
Peter, his son, can be reached at:[email protected]
The rather new address for Sobel Machinery is:129 Deerhave RoadMahwah, NH 07420201-768-9645
About AMES...
I own three (!!!!) AMES milling machines. I amsort of addicted to AMES. Two of the mills arehorizontal and one is vertical. In 1998 Ipurchased my first AMES mill from one of yourprevious (?) club members - Geoffrey Brown.
I'd be very appreciatively if you could ask yourclub members for some information about thesemills. I would like to correspond with anyonethat has such a mill. I would love to get a
photocopy of an AMES milling machine manual orfind out how I can purchase one. I'd also like to findout where I can get milling arbors to fit the 3AMcollet dimensions (the smaller of the AMES colletssizes). By milling arbors I mean the arbors that areused to hold horizontal milling cutters. I am not sureof right term.
I am attaching two photos to this e-mail. The photoof the vertical AMES with the wooden bench is aphoto I took. (I made the bench.) The other is aphoto off of eBay. It is a horizontal AMES mill I wonjust a week ago. I bought it mainly because it hasthe amazing speed-clutch mechanism.
While any help with respect to AMES mills would behighly appreciated, the get-well card is far moreimportant.
Regards,Andy Batory11 Woodbridge CrescentKanata, Ontario K2M 2N8Canada(o) 613-248-6569(h) 613-592-6697
