Left
is Terri Groff and right is Dave Bono 
Cabin Fever Expo 2006
21, 22 January 2006
York Fairgrounds, York PA
My wife and I traveled down from eastern Connecticut on Friday 20 January to York. Upon arrival at the fair grounds we found the tables that had been marked of for NEMES by Ray Hasbrouck who had arrived even earlier than we had.
We set up my things and while we were doing that Dave Bono and his wife, Romaine, arrived and we helped them move their things into the show hall. While that was going on the bus pulled in and the rest of our mob was soon busy setting up displays of all sorts.
I am using a new camera and wanted to take lots of pictures. On the other hand I wanted to keep it under control in case I got home with a bunch of not so great photos. I tried to photograph things that would be of wide interest to anyone reading these pages but avoid excess duplication of photos taken in previous years. Up to you to decided how I did!
So, in no particular order here is Cabin Fever Expo 2006
Left
is Terri Groff and right is Dave Bono
I didn't recall seeing this robot before so I included it here
My
students frequently ask to make plumb bobs and I spotted these so they could see
what a real plumb bob looks like
(L) Romaine Bono and Terri Groff
Friday evening most of the bus trip fellows and a number of other members who had traveled separately gathered at the Old Country Buffet restaurant for supper. It turned out to be a nice get together with much good conversation.
There were, of course, model representing the widest range of interests
Ron Ginger (R) founding father of NEMES chats with the folks at Easy CNC.
On Saturday morning a very interesting talk was given by Dave Benson the owner of Easy CNC
on the subject of homebrew CNC machining. You can reach Dave at http://sq-1.com/
, http://stepperstuff.com/ ,
or http://cncintro.com/ I
purchased the Easy CNC book from Dave and two other books about PIC controllers
that turned out to be WAY over my head. Well, just something more to
learn!
This 1:1 steam engine was in the hall
The left hand picture approaches the hopes I have for the new camera. Of
course it is the poor craftsman who blames the tool. I have a long way to
go before I am comfortable with the new "tool".
This homebrew EDM machine was built from the plans published by Ben
Fleming. The builder, in the left hand photo is Rich of Green Bay
Wisconsin. Ben's book is available from Lindsay Publications and there is
quite an active Yahoo group to support builders. The group is EDMBuilders
if you are interested.
The gentleman in the third photo over is Clarence Meyers, owner of Meyers Casting and a driving force behind the North American Model Engineering show to be held this year in Toledo OH.
I thought this overhead cam model airplane engine was a real work of art.
Photo 1. is the group that came down on the bus, photo 2 are a couple of Johnny come latelys who were not present for the group photo and photo 3 is the patient bus driver who puts up with our foolishness.
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My wife, Terri, and Mrs. Meyers of Meyers Castings (see pictures above) talk
about Alaska. Turns out that both the Meyers and ourselves were in Alaska
at about the same time last summer. Funny, I don't remember seeing them up
there.