Great Wife, Definitely a Keeper
 

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.

Happy New year to all,

Errol Groff

Instructor, Machine Tool Department

H.H. Ellis Technical High School
643 Upper Maple Street
Dantieson, CT 06239

New England Model Engineering Society
http://newenglandmodelengineeringsociety.org/

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.

Happy New year to all,

Errol Groff

Instructor, Machine Tool Department

H.H. Ellis Technical High School
643 Upper Maple Street
Dantieson, CT 06239

New England Model Engineering Society
http://newenglandmodelengineeringsociety.org/




I've never had a wife help me do anything with tools ever since I asked
my first one, "Hand me that soldering iron please", and stuck my hand
out behind me without looking like a surgeon saying, "scalpel" .

She handed it to me hot end first....

Jeff (Who's been hitched 42 years now...14 to the first and 28 to the
present one.)

--
Jeffry Wisnia

(W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)

"As long as there are final exams, there will be prayer in public
schools"

I never thanked you and Steve for the whistle plans. When my 13 year old
nephew came to visit I had him make one on my lathe and mill. He loved it!

BTW, instead of soldering the tubes in place we adjusted the dimensions for
a press fit and used the arbor press to assemble them. Since the center
piece was aluminum this worked out well. I think this is the loudest whistle
I have heard.

"Errol Groff" wrote in message
...

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.

Happy New year to all,

Errol Groff

Instructor, Machine Tool Department

H.H. Ellis Technical High School
643 Upper Maple Street
Dantieson, CT 06239

New England Model Engineering Society
http://newenglandmodelengineeringsociety.org/

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

I guess I'm losing it, but I've been to the website twice now and have yet
to find that. Plenty of other neat links though, wasted an hour or so :)

After getting to the web page search (CTRL-F) for whistle. It's there.

"Rex B" wrote in message
...
"Errol Groff" wrote in message
http://newenglandmodelengineeringsociety.org/ scroll down to find
Steve Lovely's Whistle Plans for the plans in PDF format.

I guess I'm losing it, but I've been to the website twice now and have yet
to find that. Plenty of other neat links though, wasted an hour or so :)

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

"Rex B" wrote in message
...
"Errol Groff" wrote in message
http://newenglandmodelengineeringsociety.org/ scroll down to find
Steve Lovely's Whistle Plans for the plans in PDF format.

I guess I'm losing it, but I've been to the website twice now and have yet
to find that. Plenty of other neat links though, wasted an hour or so :)

http://newenglandmodelengineeringsoc...istle_Plan.pdf

http://newenglandmodelengineeringsoc...dendum%202.pdf

and

http://newenglandmodelengineeringsoc...n_Addendum.pdf

OK, I found them. Thanks

I guess I'm losing it, but I've been to the website twice now and have
yet
to find that. Plenty of other neat links though, wasted an hour or so :)

http://newenglandmodelengineeringsoc...istle_Plan.pdf

http://newenglandmodelengineeringsoc...dendum%202.pdf

and

http://newenglandmodelengineeringsoc...n_Addendum.pdf

I just made one of these whistles and I'm in agreement - its the loudest
darned whistle I've ever heard. Its a nice quick fun project too. Thanks,
Errol.

Robert

"Rich" wrote in message
...
I never thanked you and Steve for the whistle plans. When my 13 year old
nephew came to visit I had him make one on my lathe and mill. He loved it!

BTW, instead of soldering the tubes in place we adjusted the dimensions
for
a press fit and used the arbor press to assemble them. Since the center
piece was aluminum this worked out well. I think this is the loudest
whistle
I have heard.

"Errol Groff" wrote in message
...

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.

Happy New year to all,

Errol Groff

Instructor, Machine Tool Department

H.H. Ellis Technical High School
643 Upper Maple Street
Dantieson, CT 06239

New England Model Engineering Society
http://newenglandmodelengineeringsociety.org/

"Jeff Wisnia" wrote in message
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snip-----

Jeff (Who's been hitched 42 years now...14 to the first and 28 to the
present one.)

--
Jeffry Wisnia

Strange!! That's how it is for me, too, except it's 27½ years with Susan.
Things are much better the second time around.

Harold

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 18:57:13 -0800, "Harold & Susan Vordos"
wrote:


"Jeff Wisnia" wrote in message
...
snip-----

Jeff (Who's been hitched 42 years now...14 to the first and 28 to the
present one.)

--
Jeffry Wisnia

Strange!! That's how it is for me, too, except it's 27½ years with Susan.
Things are much better the second time around.

Harold

I am a great believer in scratchpad marriage -- you know, one to throw
away, one to keep.

I'm coming up on 22 years on my second.

BTW: It helps to marry a saint.

--RC
"Sometimes history doesn't repeat itself. It just yells
'can't you remember anything I've told you?' and lets
fly with a club.
-- John W. Cambell Jr.