Lee Marshall
lmarshal@bonnydoonengineering.com

Lee

On Tue Jun 22, Brian Adam wrote
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>Hi all, I'm Brian Adam and a New Zealand jeweller making earrings,
>rings, and eyeglasses. I started making jewellry in 1979 when I met
>Ruth. I work from a home-based studio workshop alongside my wife Ruth
>who is a jeweller making earrings, rings, pins, and crochet
>necklaces. The press is a new item in our workshop.

>I just made a basic unit with the help of the neighbour who is an
>auto body-repair man. He also works fom home. It's kind of a New
>Zealand thing,working from home. It's also a NZ thing to be
>self-reliant. It's necessary, often, when imports like tools and
>equipment are so expensive, given our exchange rate ($NZ1 = $US0.55c)
>is so unfavourable to us.

>I first used a press a few years ago when teaching jewellery here,
>and students were interested in pressing shapes. I used a truck
>wheel-puller and some urethane sandwiched between chunks of steel.
>It worked up to a point. Now I spend more time here at home, and I
>use the press with some Bonnydoone parts for a basic low-dome
>application in a range of my earrings. It's worked well enough as a
>labour-saving device, but I do no experimentation as yet.

>I hope this forum will help me get inspired to try some tricks. But
>I'm afraid I don't have too much to spend on parts as yet. I'll
>probably cobble together  a test out of make-shift scrap, and see
>how it works for me before thinking about buying Bonnydoone parts.

>I'm hesitant about this forum, being web-based not email (majordomo)
>based, but willing to give it a try. My problem with this format is my
>editing window (the one I'm using right now) is small in height as well as width.
>I guess this is the 70 character-width I chose? But it doesn't wrap and
>as a result I am finding it rather unweildy.

>I'm satisfied with email-based mail lists and belong to many,like over a dozen.
>My email application filters the incoming mail from each list to
>a special local nesgroup for me, so dealing with them all
>is easy.
>This web-based forum is just a little too slow and unreliable
>(browsers crash, etc) for me. Do I need to be online all this time?
>PLUS I'm on a totally non-standard computer and browser. I have an
>Acorn RiscPC from Cambridge UK, and I use the Fresco browser from
>ANT in UK. It's a whole different world. Our motto is 'Be different'.

>For more info and picture about me and my artwork try www.adam.co.nz

>Regards
>Brian

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