[SEL] Please critique

Arnie Fero fero_ah at city-net.com
Fri Apr 15 12:48:36 PDT 2005


Hi Curt,

I agree with Steve on this one.  I look at the range of machining skills
that exist in the hobby in the same way that I look at the range of
engines.  We all love to read about and drool over the rare and exotic
sideshafts and camstoppers.  They're really cool.  But we also like to
read about the Hercs and Economys and Associateds too because we have a
chance to own those engines.  Likewise with the machining.  It's really
fun to see the work that Craig does, because of the variety, the clever
setups, and the cool old machines being put to work.  But for most of us,
we may own a lathe and drill press.  Maybe a milling adapter for the
lathe.  So its also good to read articles that are describing projects
that are in the range of something we could do in our home shops.

I keep telling Jim French that he should send in an article to SEM on how
he built the Fairbanks Eclipse model.  They did a really fancy six-part
article with one of the top flight English model builders doing it.  That
bloke had the full machine shop, did all the fancy setups, etc.  Very
nice article and very nice piece of work.  Jim had his little lathe.
I think it would definitely be a piece that more readers could relate to.
It would make an excellent counterpoint to the six-part article.

So I say go for it!!

See ya,  Arnie

Arnie Fero
Pittsburgh, PA
fero_ah at city-net.com

On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Steve Royster wrote:

> Now Curt, Please reconsider . Most of us GEM readers are just back yard
> tinkerers and never will be as  good as Tommy or Craig, but we all can learn
> a lot by articles like yours. I've never had any machine shop lessons at
> all, I just blunder my way along and somehow get by. So send that in to
> Richard  right now.  Steve
>
> >From: Curt <curt at imc-group.com>
> >I'd rather you not send it as I don't think it has much merit for a high
> >quality publication like GEM. My piddly contributions to the hobby pale in
> >comparison to the greats of the hobby like Craig Prucha or a couple of my
> >local buddies Tommy Berry and Doug Kelley. These are the guys we need to be
> >encouraging to write articles for GEM about engine restoration and model
> >building.



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