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There are hobby machinist groups scattered around the USA including a small HSM group in Connecticut. Our CTHSM group is congenial and freewheeling:
no rules, no dues, just people getting together to learn new techniques plus share thoughts on machining and other topics that arise. Meetings are held in
member shops, nominally on the second Sunday of the month at 2pm. Anyone interested in attending a meeting please contact me
(via the link below on this page)for more info and travel directions.
The June 9th meeting was at Craig's shop in Cheshire, CT. We've had a lot of rain and cool weather this spring so on this beautiful day we chatted outside prior to the meeting, just enjoying the sunshine.
At top left is a scriber which uses a vernier to set the distance from the scriber point to the movable jaw. Handy for layouts and for marking items held in the lathe chuck for cutoff.
Below the scriber is a round body vernier caliper. This caliper is multi-purpose - it can function as a height gauge, measure inside or outside diameters, and the fixed jaw can rotate so it measures distance between two surfaces that are not one directly above the other.
At right is a 3D tester, used to locate a work piece on the mill table in 3 dimensions.
There will not be a July meeting due to vacations. The August 11th meeting will be at my shop in Newtown.
As usual, bring items for demonstration and/or discussion. Plus items for the sale/swap/free table.
Home shop machining is often a solitary hobby, as are most hobbies now according to "Bowling Alone".
The CTHSM group is an attempt to get area HSM's to know one another and thus make our hobby a little less solitary.
The much larger NEMES HSM group is 2-3 hours away so we share some members and occasionally have visitors from that group.
The CTHSM group has been meeting since November 2008, mostly on the 2nd Sunday of the month at 2pm, but we deviate from this with some regularity. The January meeting is not held since Cabin Fever conflicts, February has seen a couple meetings cancelled due to weather, the May meeting is on the 3rd Sunday to avoid a conflict with Mother's Day, and we don't meet in July because many members are on vacation. Over time our meeting schedule has become predictably irregular...
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