December is dues renewal time. Please send a check for $25.00 made out to NEMES to Richard Koolish, 212 Park Ave., Arlington MA 02476. Dues cover the calendar year January 1 to December 31. Please include your mailing address, email address and telephone number.
Our speaker this month will be our own Bruce Murray who will speak on Power Measurements on a 2" Scale Burrell Traction Engine.
It is never too early to start thinking about the 14th annual NEMES show coming up in February Please click HERE to look at the show flyer for 2010.
If you are a first time visitor to this site, please, take your time, look around and see what our group has to offer. We hope that you find things of interest and always welcome your comments and suggestions. Please feel free to contact the webmaster at errol.groff@snet.net
I probably should just leave this information here on a permanent basis. The link to the casting photos is: http://neme-s.org/images/Mystic%20River%20Foundry/MRF_1.htm
An excellent series on sand casting is available on YouTube. It is in ten parts with each part about three to seven minutes long. The link to part one is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYZOTt9zTv0
A new item has been added! The index of speakers will let you look for a speakers name and find the edition of the Gazette in which he or she is mentioned. Also mentioned is the topic about which he spoke.
| Club Contacts |
NEMES Gazettes Here |
How to Join NEMES
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Directions to NEMES Meetings | Calendar of | Links to Member Web Sites |
| Articles of interest on the PDF
download page
WHISTLE plans HERE |
Links to other metalworking clubs | Things to do and see in New England
Please click HERE (Excel)
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Club Related Links | Rollie's Dad's Method for Lathe Alignment | Page of links about model building and accessory building |
NEW: How to Section. I will add to this as material becomes available.
Club Activities and Benefits Include:
Metal Working Related Links and Pages
| Metal Working Resources (lots of links) | NEMES Resource Page |
| NEMES own Links | Metal Shaper FAQ |
| Metal Working FAQ | Metal Shaper Columns |
| Kay Fisher's BP Rebuild | Metal Shaper Books in PDF |
NEW Pages of Interest (Dates show are the posting dates, not necessarily the date of the event)
Alphabetical index of all pages HERE This is a MS Excel file
February 2010 Meeting 6 February
Antique Outboard Engine Meet 24 January 2010 (Sorry, if you tried to use this link and got nowhere I have now fixed it and it should work properly 25 January 2010)
Cabin Fever Expo 2010 21 January 2010 Video clip will be added soon
January Meeting 2010 Added 8 January 2010
Waushakum New Years Day Steam Up 1 Jan 2010
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Mike Boucher sent a couple of photos from his presentation to his son's class. Thanks for the contribution to the site Mike!
Frost Bite Crank Up 13 December 2009
December Meeting 2009 6 December
American Precision Museum Show 7 November 2009
October Meeting and Rollie's Open House 6 October 2009 Update on 15 December 2009
Swamp Yankee Days 27 September 2009
WLS Van Brocklin Meet 28 June 2009 Updated 22 September 2009
Saugus Iron Works N.H.S. 15 September 2009
Franklin Institute Philadelphia PA 15 September 2009
Pennsylvania Live Steamers Labor Day meet 09/09/09
Waushakum Live Steamers Fall Meet 8 September 2009 Updated with more information about certain photos.
Mystic Seaport Antique Engine Show 17 August 2009
Tod Engine Foundation Youngstown Ohio 5 August 2009
White Creek RR Cedar Springs MI 5 August (8 August update with info sent by Tim Childs)
Oshkosh 2009 5 August 2009
Visit to Rich Carlstadt's shop 4 August 2009
Progress report on the #8 engine 22 July 2009
Pepperell Crank Up 12 July 2009
Montreal Live Steamers 75th Anniversary Meet 7 July 2009
PVLS Fathers Day Meet 20 June 2009
EASTEC 2009 7 June 2009
Old Iron Tractor Show May 2009
May 2009 Meeting Updated 25 May with more close up photos of spring making tools and better video of the Di-acro spring winder.
Bernardston 2009 23 May 2009 Please look at this page and remember the veterans who purchased our freedom with their sacrifice.
Waushakum Live Steamers Spring Steam Up 17 May 2009
Scantic Valley Engineers Association 16 May 2009
Belltown Show 15 May 2009
Dunstable MA 5 May 2009
CT Aviation School Facility, Brainard Field, Hartford, CT . May 2009
CAMA Spring Steam Up 2 May 2009
Belltown Gas and Steam Show 27 April 2009
NAMES 2009 23 April 2009
Glenn Curtis Museum 22 April 2009
April 2009 Meeting 3 April 2009
Ridge Live Steamers Winter Meet Dundee Florida 7 March 2009
Fuel Savers Guide E-book Our member Dave Robey handed me this book CD at our recent show. Interesting stuff.
NEMES 13th Annual Show 21 February 2009
Amherst Train Show 25 January 2009
Cabin Fever Expo 2009 20 January 2009 24 January 2009
Waushakum Live Steamers New Year's Day Steam-Up 1 January 2009
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Frost Bite Crank Up 2008 14 December 2008
Essex Shipbuilding Museum 2nd Annual Steam Muster 19 October 2008 New comments added 17 November 2008
Norm Jones "Plating at Home" PowerPoint presentation 10 November 2008
CAMA 2008 9November 2008
George King Open House 2 November 2008
Iron Guild Halloween Pour in Providence, RI 1 November 2008
American Precision Museum Show 26 October 2008
Strasburg Railroad, Strasburg PA 17 October 2008
Liberty Tool photos sent in by Bill Brackett 17 October 2008
Rough and Tumble, Kinzer PA 15 October 2008 An interesting note has been added on 2 February 2010.
Yankee Steam Up & Rollie's Open House 5 October 2008 Updated with new info on 27 October 2008
Charles River Museum of Industry Innovations of Yesterday Festival 13 September 2008
Rough and Tumble 7 September 2008
Jet Powered Model Airplane Meet 7 September 2008
Pennsylvania Live Steamers 30 August 2008
Waushakum Live Steamers 2008 23 August 2008
Mystic Seaport Antique Engine Show 17 August 2008
Straw Hollow Engine Works Inc. 9 August 2008
August Meeting 8 August 2008
P.O. Mike Monsoor Funeral Photos Congressional Medal of Honor Winner
Article about John C. Garand Norwich Bulletin 6 August 2008
Long Island Live Steamers Rail Fan Day 2 August 2008
Owls Head Transportation Museum 27 July 2008
Quinnebaug Valley Engineers Association 20 July 2008
Norm Jones Photos Boothbay Railway and R/C Show
Peperell Crank Up 13 July 2008
Orange MA 1 July 2008
NSOCC Topsfield 2008 22 June 2008
EASTEC 2008 photos and video sent in by Al Goldberg 18 June 2008
Big floating crane and photos of the U.S. Submarine Service Memorial 7 June 2008
Photos from some German modelers 6 June 2008
Bernardston MA show 24 May 2008
Saugus Iron Works N.H.S. 18 May 2008
Mower fire photos 15 May 2008
Dunstable Show 4 May 2008
May Meeting 4 May 2008
NAMES 2008 21 April 2008
LIMW Film Fest 29 March 2008
March Meeting 9 March 2008
NEMES Annual Model Engineering Show 17 February 2008
NEMES monthly meeting February 2008 Video of Rollie Gaucher's excellent talk about lapping
Cabin Fever Expo 2008 21 January 2008
Noack Organ Company Open House 6 January 2008
WLS New Years Day Steam Up 1 January 2008 Wow, starting another year already.
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Please be aware that when you select Return to NEMES homepage at the bottom of the pages this link takes you to will bring you back to this page.
Places of Interest
A collection of companies and other "places of interest" that are worth the trip from just about anywhere.
Click HERE to get a PDF listed by state. Or HERE to get an Excel spreadsheet listed by state or province
Or HERE to get the alphabetical listing Or HERE to get an Excel spreadsheet listed alphabetically
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Need to machine a sprocket? Click HERE to download an Excel spreadsheet that will do the calculations for you. Just enter the number of teeth, pitch of the chain and diameter of the chain roller.
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