june 2016

The June Meeting

I was unable to attend the meeting so this newsletter has been put together from notes and photographs taken by Bruce Mannerow.

It was quite a good meeting with ~15 members in attendance. There was discussion about Murray Bennell’s Memorial BBQ being arranged by his daughter Sara; everyone from the club has been invited. (Unfortunately this newsletter will not be out in time to act as a reminder.)

Ed Spencer was at the meeting and even though he is still having knee problems he intends to run trains on the track in Komoka again this summer. (See our website for the schedule.)

The vote for the club logo was finalized and the decision (by a margin of one vote) went to Stu Brownlow’s wavy (Bluewater) design.

Tony Koolen talked about a possible field trip to an engineering company in Strathroy where he has a contact. This is dependent upon having something going through their shop that is worth seeing and arrangements will have to be made at short notice. We will let everyone know when the visit is scheduled (it will be before the bad weather arrives.) On this occasion safety glasses are mandatory so please bring a pair.

We have received information about the "Ontario Model Engineering Meet." This will be at the Hamilton Steam Museum on September 18th, from 10:00 – 5:00. Several people expressed an interest in going so we will discuss car-pooling nearer the time.

Our meeting schedule was discussed and the approach of having the first meeting early in October and a final meeting in June was favoured over the previous September – May arrangement.

Hobbyfest will be on Sunday July 17th this year. Set-up starts at 8:00 and the show runs from 10:00 until 3:00. Bruce and I will get the tents and tables there but help is needed to get everything set up (putting up the tents really required 4 people minimum.) We also

Some of the completed parts

One of John Sibbick’s locomotive support stands

John Sibbick brought in a pair of train jacks that can be used to raise and support a locomotive at both ends so that it can be turned upside-down, enabling work to be carried out on the underside.

Bruce brought along a short write-up (which included the picture below) on the Dardick Pistol (a magazine fed revolver with triangular shaped cartridges) - that he talked about two months ago. (This was just so everybody could see that he wasn’t crazy!)

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John Lovegrove