September 2018 Machine Shop minutes

Here are the minutes from the September meeting. I did not type all that was discussed just the pertinent information.
Nick Silva
Mike glass
Bob Karnaugh
Richard Meyer
Randy Lisbon’s
Art Givens
Charles Procter
Jake Thomas
Cairenn Day
David Kessinger
Ethan Western
Matt Hawes
Tim Bene
Chris Wischkowsky

Election, Nick Silva nominated & elected unopposed.

General consumable tooling.

We still need a decision for Drill bits

Replacement of parallels
Buy smaller V blocks.

5C collet chuck for the Colchester.
NTE 700 for the 5C collet chuck for the Colchester, not including backplate.
All in favor, No opposed.

Training- how do we get more instructors, lighten the load. Pre-requisite for the class that would be a self study. David said in his last Bridgeport class 1 showed up & it was a full on the calendar.

Train the trainer, little things.

Proposal is if you taken the train the trainer on the machines you are allowed to teach individually.
All in favor.

Motion for Machine Shop & Plastics name, one in favor but motion dies

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On that topic of the Collet chuck, we can get a set-tru or a standard. The set-tru we might be able to dial in for error, but the back plate is another 267$ ish