MCritchley
Stainless
- Joined
- Mar 22, 2007
- Location
- Brooklyn WI
I wanted to share my experiences with PMers about attending a Richard King scraping class.
Has anyone on the board taken Richard’s class?
For those of you who do not know who Rich is; he is a gentleman that teaches scraping, both hand and power. He has taught all around the world
and is willing to teach any one the techniques to rebuild a machine tool.
He will teach in a home shop, or an industrial setting.
I recently took a compressed three day course at a members home shop.
We had a five person class that consisted of a Watchmaker, Psychiatrist,
Network Administrator, Machinist and a Road Grater/House mover.
It was awesome spending three full days engrossed with like minded guy’s who were all willing to spend the time to learn the art, and have the same goal to rebuild their equipment.
Ironically enough we all had machines that were in pieces and were waiting to be rebuilt.
The three day class consisted of; general theory, hand scraping, power scraping, power flaking and machine tool rebuilding, we even straightened a gib. My brain was filled with old time knowledge from Rich that he has learned from the old time masters that seldom seem to exist these days. It was great to have a pro watch and critique us while we were going trough the rebuilding steps.
Having the base knowledge is great, I am now able to critique and judge what I am doing wrong. I still need to work on my hand scraping I (the machinist) had the hardest time with the hand scraping, I made my hand scraper more flexible and now works a lot better.
I was thinking one day how it would be great to take Forrest and Don’s class to learn from all the masters that are teaching scraping. If it was close to Milwaukee I would do it annually if I could.
Then I started to wonder about a joint class, with Forrest, Don and Richard.
Has anyone else had this same thought?
I wonder what the teachers would think?
Has anyone on the board taken Richard’s class?
For those of you who do not know who Rich is; he is a gentleman that teaches scraping, both hand and power. He has taught all around the world
and is willing to teach any one the techniques to rebuild a machine tool.
He will teach in a home shop, or an industrial setting.
I recently took a compressed three day course at a members home shop.
We had a five person class that consisted of a Watchmaker, Psychiatrist,
Network Administrator, Machinist and a Road Grater/House mover.
It was awesome spending three full days engrossed with like minded guy’s who were all willing to spend the time to learn the art, and have the same goal to rebuild their equipment.
Ironically enough we all had machines that were in pieces and were waiting to be rebuilt.
The three day class consisted of; general theory, hand scraping, power scraping, power flaking and machine tool rebuilding, we even straightened a gib. My brain was filled with old time knowledge from Rich that he has learned from the old time masters that seldom seem to exist these days. It was great to have a pro watch and critique us while we were going trough the rebuilding steps.
Having the base knowledge is great, I am now able to critique and judge what I am doing wrong. I still need to work on my hand scraping I (the machinist) had the hardest time with the hand scraping, I made my hand scraper more flexible and now works a lot better.
I was thinking one day how it would be great to take Forrest and Don’s class to learn from all the masters that are teaching scraping. If it was close to Milwaukee I would do it annually if I could.
Then I started to wonder about a joint class, with Forrest, Don and Richard.
Has anyone else had this same thought?
I wonder what the teachers would think?