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Title: My first post! Hello everyone...
Post by: aeroHAWK on December 13, 2014, 06:04:01 PM
Hello all!

I have been machining since 1969. First in school, then working in a machine shop. Now I have my own small CNC shop. This shows the ongoing progress of getting it up and running (click on Shop):
http://www.crishawkins.com/langley/

I've made tooling, plastic injection molds, assembly machines, and computer controlled machinery. I have been involved in several start-up companies where I designed, built and tested electric motors, plus made the dynomometers to do the tests. I've also been involved in the development of several products.

My passion is airplanes. From my youth, I built control line models then graduated to R/C, and finally to full size. I have built several aircraft in my computer and I am trying to figure out how to get them out. My avatar is one of them. To learn about programming embedded microcontrollers, I designed an electronic digital tachometer to put in my airplane when it's built. You can see the process here (click on Tachometer):
http://www.crishawkinscreates.com/AVR/

I also dabble in stone turning as my artistic expression. Here are examples:
http://www.crishawkinscreates.com

I stumbled upon this web site by googling aluminum anodizing. It came up with Tom's anodizing bench. I am intrigued with what I saw, so I joined in!

Cris
Title: Re: My first post! Hello everyone...
Post by: krv3000 on December 13, 2014, 06:20:22 PM
hi and welcume
Title: Re: My first post! Hello everyone...
Post by: mexican jon on December 13, 2014, 08:36:50 PM
Hello & Welcome  :wave:
Title: Re: My first post! Hello everyone...
Post by: vtsteam on December 13, 2014, 09:47:02 PM
Hi AeroHawk. I too have loved planes since I was a boy and flew C/L to start with, now R/C. I also flew ultralights in Florida when I lived their and once owned a Wizard J3b U/L.

 I do some of my model plane designing in SketchUp, and also some CNC stuff through that using PhlatBoyz G-code generator add-on.

Looking forward to your contributions here.! :beer:
Title: Re: My first post! Hello everyone...
Post by: Fredbare on December 14, 2014, 02:57:09 PM
Welcome aboard.

John
Title: Re: My first post! Hello everyone...
Post by: backofanenvelope on December 14, 2014, 03:06:46 PM
Hello  :mmr:
Title: Re: My first post! Hello everyone...
Post by: Stilldrillin on December 14, 2014, 03:57:00 PM
Hi Chris.  :wave:

Welcome to the Collective.  :borg:

With your background and experience, we should get along very nicely.   :thumbup:

David D
Title: Re: My first post! Hello everyone...
Post by: aeroHAWK on December 15, 2014, 03:13:53 AM
Thanks for all the greetings! I am surprised that so many of you are form the UK. I guess it is my yankee arogance :bugeye:. My apologies....

It's great though, it seems that Europe is more "old school" (maybe it's because the "school" really is older :thumbup:).

I've started on my own version of Tom's anodizing bench. I had originally planned on a stationary installation, but Tom's idea is so good that I am stealing it :bow:.

I have some tubs and battery acid already. I have ordered a constant current power supply, and will place an order to Caswell for dye and other supplies tomorrow. When I start building, I'll be sure to post....

Cris
Title: Re: My first post! Hello everyone...
Post by: Meldonmech on December 15, 2014, 01:58:57 PM
 
  Hi HAWK

                          Welcome to MadModder your shops looking swell, keep the posts coming.

                                                 Cheers  David
Title: Re: My first post! Hello everyone...
Post by: Lew_Merrick_PE on December 16, 2014, 08:13:34 AM
Hi Cris,

I am, as I bill myself, an insulting mechanical design & development engineer located in Lake Stevens, WA.  If you will e-mail me your contact information, I can see about sending some work your way.  I am tangent@olympus.net (as in what I'm always off on).  Weird and strange is my normal...  --  Lew
Title: Re: My first post! Hello everyone...
Post by: Brass_Machine on December 16, 2014, 10:46:00 AM
Hi Cris

Welcome to the collective :borg:

We are definitely a wordwide forum. Many people from many places!

 :mmr:

Eric