If you are a first time visitor to this site, please, take your time, look around and see what our group has to offer. We hope that you find things of interest and always welcome your comments and suggestions. Please feel free to contact the webmaster at errol.groff@snet.net
I probably should just leave this information here on a permanent basis. The link to the casting photos is: http://neme-s.org/images/Mystic%20River%20Foundry/MRF_1.htm
A new item has been added! The index of speakers will let you look for a speakers name and find the edition of the Gazette in which he or she is mentioned. Also mentioned is the topic about which he spoke.
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This month our speaker will be Richard Baker. Rich is a patent attorney and will be talking to us about patents and patent models of old and the procedures for securing a patent. He will also have some pictures of patent models and a web site of a fellow who sells old patent models for anyone who is interested in such things.
Metal Working Related Links and Pages
NEW Pages of Interest (Dates show are the posting dates, not necessarily the date of the event)
Long Island Live Steamers Rail Fan Day 2 August 2008
Owls Head Transportation Museum 27 July 2008
Quinnebaug Valley Engineers Association 20 July 2008
Norm Jones Photos Boothbay Railway and R/C Show
Peperell Crank Up 13 July 2008
Orange MA 1 July 2008
NSOCC Topsfield 2008 22 June 2008
EASTEC 2008 photos and video sent in by Al Goldberg 18 June 2008
Big floating crane and photos of the U.S. Submarine Service Memorial 7 June 2008
Photos from some German modelers 6 June 2008
Bernardston MA show 24 May 2008
Saugus Iron Works N.H.S. 18 May 2008
Mower fire photos 15 May 2008
Dunstable Show 4 May 2008
May Meeting 4 May 2008
NAMES 2008 21 April 2008
LIMW Film Fest 29 March 2008
March Meeting 9 March 2008
NEMES Annual Model Engineering Show 17 February 2008
NEMES monthly meeting February 2008 Video of Rollie Gaucher's excellent talk about lapping
Cabin Fever Expo 2008 21 January 2008
Noack Organ Company Open House 6 January 2008
WLS New Years Day Steam Up 1 January 2008 Wow, starting another year already.
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Todd Cahill's Paris-London Trip 10 December 2007
Frostbite 2007 9 December 2007
Essex Shipbuilding Museum Show 12 November 2007
American Precision Museum Annual Show 28 October 2007
Yankee Steam Up 2007 9 October 2007 This show took place a couple of weekends back but I have had severe problems with my web page creating software which took almost two weeks to stamp out. I am back in business! Yeaaa
100th Model Engineering Show at Ascot, England 23 September 2007
Lake Winnipesaukee Steam Boat Rally 9 September 2007
Explorer of the Seas visits New London CT 2 September 2007
Straw Hollow Engine Show 11August 2007
William G. Mather Great Lakes Freighter 6 August 2007
Ohio Brush Company 5 August 2007
Metamora Antique Tractor and Engine Show 5 August 2007
Rich Carlstedt's shop visit 4 August 2007
Rosholt Thresheree, Rosholt WI 4 August 2007
Oshkosh 2007 4 August 2007
Pepperell Crank Up 9 July 2007
NEMES July Meeting 6 July 2007
Central MA Gas and Steam 2 July 2007
Horseless Carriage Club of America (hosted at the New England Museum of Wireless and Steam) 27 June 2007
North Shore Old Car Club show at the Topsfield Fair Ground 24 June 2007
Pioneer Valley Live Steamers 17 June 2007
Adirondack Live Steamers Spring Meet 9 June 2007
Bill Brackett and Norm Jones visit Apex Machine for see the water jet in operation. 8 June 2007
New Jersey Live Steamers Spring Steam Up 3 June 2007
EASTEC 2007 photos from Al Goldberg 30 May 2007
Stair Trolley 28 May 2007
Bernardston MA 26 May 2007 Two new photos added 3 June from Bill Brackett
Waushakum Spring Steam Up 20 May 2007
Dunstable MA 6 May 2007
May 2007 Meeting Photos 5 May 2007
Meijer Gardens Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library Holland, Michigan
S..S. Keewatin Maritime Museum Air Zoo Kalamazoo MI
Steamtown National Historic Site 28 April 2007
Greenfield Village at the Henry Ford 2007 35 April 2007
N.A.M.E.S. Show 24 April 0007
April 2007 Meeting Photos 6 April 2007
Harvard University Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments 31 March 2007
Dick Boucher at Haverhill High School 11 March 2007
CT Antique Machinery Association Photos 7 March 2007
NEMES Annual Show 18 February 2007
Al Goldberg photos from New England Wireless and Steam Museum 12 February 2007
Cabin Fever Expo 25 January 2007
January 2007 Membership Meeting 6 January 2007
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Watervliet Arsenal 27 December 2006
Frank Dorion, Dave Bono, Dave Osier and Errol Groff take a road trip!
Boothbay Railway Village, Boothbay Maine This page updated with captions on 21 December 2006. No, I am not that slow, new information was just sent along by Joe Kelley president of the Maine Antique Power Association. Thanks Joe!
Visit to Hyde Park, NY 16 December 2006
December 2006 Membership Meeting 8 December 2006
Tubing Cutting and PAblaster project 13 November 2006
Saw Mill Park, Ledyard, CT 11 November 2006
Barn Door Wheel machining 5 November 2006
Noack Organ Company, Georgetown MA 4 November 2006
November 2006 Membership Meeting 3 November 2006
Clyde's Cider Mill Old Mystic CT 21 October 2006
Yankee Siege Trebuchet 15 October 2006
QVEA Fall Meet 8 October 2006
Rollie Gaucher Open Shop 2006 1 October 2006
Yankee Steam Up New England Museum of Wireless and Steam 30 September 2006
Pioneer Valley Live Steamers Fall Meet 17 September 2006
Lake Winnipesaukee Steam Boat Rally 10 September 2006
Dublin NH 10 September 2006
Waushakum Live Steamers Annual Meet Weekend 30 August 2006
Errol and Terri Groff's Western Trip August 2006 (99% machine, train or manufacturing related)
EAA Oshkosh Fly-In 2006 22 August 2006
Quinebaug Valley Engineering Association Show 15 July 2006
EAA Chapter 1363 Strawberry Pancake Breakfast 8 July 2006
July 2006 NEMES meeting 8 July 2006
Orange MA and North Shore Old Car Club Shows 25 June 2006
Making S.B. Carriage Stop Bodies. 23 June 2006 Work in progress
Dearborn Homestead Last Annual Show 22 June 2006
Iron Guild Father's Day Pour at the Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site 19 June 2006
Pioneer Valley Live Steamers Fathers Day Steam Up 17 June 2006
Old Iron Tractor Club Woodstock CT 4 June 2006
http://home.iag.net/~gretencort/imars/ 3 June 2006 For those interested in hot air engines. I found this link on r.c.m. and have it posted here since it may not be permanent. Click on tall tales, bios, and sea stories then click on Bill Kehm N4ZZO
June 2006 NEMES meeting 2 June 2006
May 2006 NEMES meeting 2 June 2006
The Francis Farm Cracker Grinder Restoration 24 May 2006
Watervliet Arsenal Museum 15 May 2006 (We visited the Museum in 2004 and for some reason I lost track of these photos and just now got motivated to find them on the hard drive and put together these pages)
Dunstable MA Show 2006 8 May 2006
D-Day Memorial Bedford, Virginia 7 May 2006
World War II Memorial Washington, D.C. 7 May 2006
Cold Springs West Virginia 5 May 2006
Petersburg VA 5 May 2006
Stephen F. Udvar-Hazy Air Museum 3 May 2006
Warther Carvings Museum Dover Ohio 29 April 2006
Oil and Gas Museum, Parkersburg West Virginia 27 April 2006
NAMES 20006 27 April 2006
April 2006 NEMES Meeting 8 April 2006
Kozo Shay by Larry Simoneau March 4 2006
Guns of Norwich During the Civil War Norwich CT was one of the foremost manufacturing centers in the United States. Over 25,000 guns were manufactured in Norwich. 17 February 2006
February 2006 NEMES meeting 3 February 2006
Cabin Fever Expo 2006 29 January 2006
January 2006 NEMES meeting 6 January 2006
Waushakum Live Steamers New Years Day Steam Up. Sent along by Bill Brackett. First contribution to the web site for 2006! Thanks Bill! 1 January 2006
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Please be aware that when you select Return to NEMES homepage at the bottom of the pages this link takes you to will bring you back to this page.
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Index page for articles prior to 2005
Please be aware that when you select Return to NEMES homepage at the bottom of the pages this link takes you to will bring you back to this page.
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Places of Interest
A collection of companies and other "places of interest" that are worth the trip from just about anywhere.
Click HERE to get a PDF listed by state. Or HERE to get an Excel spreadsheet listed by state or province
Or HERE to get the alphabetical listing Or HERE to get an Excel spreadsheet listed alphabetically
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Need to machine a sprocket? Click HERE to download an Excel spreadsheet that will do the calculations for you. Just enter the number of teeth, pitch of the chain and diameter of the chain roller.
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