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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: New people welcome !! Come in here and introduce your self!
« on: October 07, 2008, 01:41:41 AM »
Hi,
My name is Mike Gershowitz and I'm an electrical engineer who's been hobby machining since high school (back in the early 70's). I've got a Bridgeport mill with a Futaba CNC retrofit - runs like a charm, but is only 2 axis. I've also got a Jet 1340 lathe, which I intend to convert to CNC and use Mach as the machine controller. After doing the normal activities of (manually) machining lots of replacement parts for friends and neighbors, and making a bunch of tooling for my own machines, I took a liking to building miniature steam engines. Now I'm hooked on 1/8 scale live steam, and spend a fair amount of time fabricating parts for my own 4-4-2 Little Engines "Atlantic" locomotive and our club trains (Golden Gate Live Steamers in the San Fransisco CA area). I live in San Jose CA, and I'm not yet retired.
My name is Mike Gershowitz and I'm an electrical engineer who's been hobby machining since high school (back in the early 70's). I've got a Bridgeport mill with a Futaba CNC retrofit - runs like a charm, but is only 2 axis. I've also got a Jet 1340 lathe, which I intend to convert to CNC and use Mach as the machine controller. After doing the normal activities of (manually) machining lots of replacement parts for friends and neighbors, and making a bunch of tooling for my own machines, I took a liking to building miniature steam engines. Now I'm hooked on 1/8 scale live steam, and spend a fair amount of time fabricating parts for my own 4-4-2 Little Engines "Atlantic" locomotive and our club trains (Golden Gate Live Steamers in the San Fransisco CA area). I live in San Jose CA, and I'm not yet retired.