Jeff Wisnia wrote:

Errol Groff wrote:

It being school vacation I have been in my school shop doing things
that I can't get done with students around.

One of the things I wanted to get to was to start making whistle
bodies because Cabin Fever Expo is coming up fast and I hoped to have
at least forty whistles to hand out to the little kids.

My wife, Terri, asked if I needed some help since she is off work
presently and I said sure. All help is welcome and appreciated.

So, today we headed up to school and I walked her through the
operation of our CNC lathe which was set up for making whistle bodies.

http://newenglandmodelengineeringsociety.org/ scroll down to find
Steve Lovely's Whistle Plans for the plans in PDF format.

Anyway, after a bit, and some starts and stops, she got the hang of it
and by the end of the day had machined 35 brass whistle bodies.

Pretty darn good for someone who had NEVER touched a machine tool
before and better than most of my students would do in the same time
frame.

She will probably not give up her day job (or more properly her night
nurse job) but she made a heck of a good start as an apprentice
machinist today.

Come August it will be 39 years that we have been putting up with each
other and I am pretty lucky to have her.

This is a TRAGEDY! You've been together THIRTY-NINE years and you've never
let her TOUCH a machine tool????!!!! She has the beginnings of a GREAT
machinist
in her, if on her first day EVER she completed 35 of ANYTHING!

Let her do a couple more jobs like that, and she'll come home from the
hospital one day
and say "I'm never going back there AGAIN!" (OR, maybe, that's what
you've been
worried about. Nothing like a little family diversity to keep the home
economy on
level footing!)

Jon