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  1. #46
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    Hello everyone,

    I am a long time lurker on this site and I would like to register my interest in doing the scraping class. Early October would be fine be me. So count me as a definite.

    It would be nice to meet some other like minded people


    Regards


    Mark

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    Quote Originally Posted by .RC. View Post
    You are welcome to come visit me if you want some pointers.... I can teach you lots of bad habits
    John that's not a bad offer. On the up side, you have a scraper, I sold it to you. You wont be offending me, if you take up Richards offer. I've spent very limited time in his shop, its enjoyable. I woundn't be offending any one here, but Rich is our star student. He would have done more scraping this past 12 months than I have. I'd like to think that we helped to plant the seed, (little rural joke there), taught a few rights from wrong, and just gave enough in-sight to set forth.

    Quote Originally Posted by .RC. View Post
    Hell I feel like coming down just to see Phil and Marko again...
    Your more then welcome. Its only a 26 hour drive.

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    Early October is fine for me.
    Cheers,
    Bill

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    I will work in with that date thanks.

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    If there's any vacancies left I would like to join in.
    John

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    Quote Originally Posted by Machtool View Post
    John that's not a bad offer. On the up side, you have a scraper, I sold it to you. You wont be offending me, if you take up Richards offer. I've spent very limited time in his shop, its enjoyable. I woundn't be offending any one here, but Rich is our star student. He would have done more scraping this past 12 months than I have. I'd like to think that we helped to plant the seed, (little rural joke there), taught a few rights from wrong, and just gave enough in-sight to set forth.


    Your more then welcome. Its only a 26 hour drive.
    I'm not offended Phil, in fact I have been going over the pics I took of the first class and I took more of Richards work than anything.
    Damn that was a great weekend!
    I have scraped a small cast iron surface plate, countless slide valves and quite a few bearings. I even made the leather wiper Marko told me I needed when doing bearings. It works a treat.

    Phil

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    Quote Originally Posted by Machtool View Post
    John that's not a bad offer. On the up side, you have a scraper, I sold it to you. You wont be offending me, if you take up Richards offer. I've spent very limited time in his shop, its enjoyable. I woundn't be offending any one here, but Rich is our star student. He would have done more scraping this past 12 months than I have. I'd like to think that we helped to plant the seed, (little rural joke there), taught a few rights from wrong, and just gave enough in-sight to set forth.
    I've had some practice (just a small cast iron plate) with the scraper I got from you. There is a limit to what you can learn from Youtube videos so I will certainly take advantage of Richards kind offer.

    John

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    I'd be interested in attending.

    What is the object you scrape in class??
    …..Live a Quiet Life & Work with your Hands

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    Quote Originally Posted by DSEL74 View Post
    I'd be interested in attending.

    What is the object you scrape in class??
    It is a cast iron cube.. Cannot remember the dimensions as they are not all the same as we have a lot of trouble procuring them... But as a rough guide, I think they were 50, 75, 100...

    They are deliberately machined out of square and parallel, so you get some basics of alignment scraping..

    Also there is the initiation ceremony... The night before the class, GregQ took me to this club and said it was a secret scraping initiation ritual (he dropped me at the door then left to pick me up later).. There were lots of whips and handcuffs and leather and chains there.. Although there was no one else from the scraping class there and I am suspicious it may have been one of those clubs I have read about that cater for different tastes... I am but a simple country lad, and I am sure GregQ would not lead anyone astray so I will have to take his word on that...
    Gold, the colour of choice for the discerning person.

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    Quote Originally Posted by .RC. View Post
    Also there is the initiation ceremony... The night before the class, GregQ took me to this club and said it was a secret scraping initiation ritual (he dropped me at the door then left to pick me up later).. There were lots of whips and handcuffs and leather and chains there.. Although there was no one else from the scraping class there and I am suspicious it may have been one of those clubs I have read about that cater for different tastes... I am but a simple country lad, and I am sure GregQ would not lead anyone astray so I will have to take his word on that...
    Ah - that explains why he was asking me for tips on places to go in Fortitude Valley after he moved to Qld.

    PDW

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    I saw the cubes in the video but also some Angle Plates and a Camel Back straight edge.
    …..Live a Quiet Life & Work with your Hands

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    Quote Originally Posted by DSEL74 View Post
    I saw the cubes in the video but also some Angle Plates and a Camel Back straight edge.
    I think you'll find the angle plates were being used as a reference to square the cubes(2 4 6 blocks really, or there abouts)
    Richard worked on a square(pictured above). Greg(?) on a Camel back.

    Stuart

    P.s. Richard I think I've finally come up with a way to fix that table without spending more money than the grinder is worth(time doesnt count lol)...... not that I'm really in need of it anymore.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DSEL74 View Post
    I'd be interested in attending.

    What is the object you scrape in class??
    Its a brick of cast iron. More of a post to report, I've found stock. In Qld this time, the first two classes 2011 & 2012 we dragged it in from W.A. Rectangular cast iron bar isn't that easy to find in this country. Rounds are easiest.

    Roughly they are 50 x 100 x 150. I take them out of 108 x 57 cast rectangular bar. I cut that to 150mm long. The other sizes float, I make them as big as I can. I just try to get under the skin, where its nice to scrap. I do try to make them all about the same, so that the metrtology gear set up, only needs a tweak. Be aware I machine them with errors, so there is some thing to correct.

    It doesn't sound like much, but no one has ever finished all six sides in a weekend. It takes until Lunch Sat to get flat, then we do parallel, there after square /square /square. I' m convinced its the perfect size to get the most out of one weekend.

    Regards Phil.

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    Just to keep you all in the mood...

    I was cleaning up today, getting ready for a bit of a scraping class here, so decided to see if my eye was still in...

    Looks like it might be..

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    And then this little chap must also have been interested in scraping, so he/she came into the shed to watch from up high...

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    Gold, the colour of choice for the discerning person.

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    Quote Originally Posted by .RC. View Post
    Just to keep you all in the mood...





    And then this little chap must also have been interested in scraping, so he/she came into the shed to watch from up high...

    20140511_150021.jpg
    Looks like one of those deadly yellow belly blacks

    I'll give you a call later this week to arrange a suitable time for a vist.

    John

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