Hydraulic Die Forming Discussion Group

GeneO
gene@mettleworks.com
Thu Dec 1 '05

It's been a while since I was there and I'm sure that the site is a bit more crowded now.

I just thought you might enjoy my little trip up memory lane, sometime before March of 98 I don't have a date.  This is post I sent off to artmetal.
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I drove up to Lee Marshall's shop on Monday.

Beautiful setting, but a challenge to get there.
Well maybe not a big challenge, but logging roads on the side of 45+ degree slopes that have been dignified with pavement but otherwise unchanged can be a challenge. My Dodge Stratus rental car scraped bottom 4 times while driving slowly up the "road".
Lee's driveway up  to the shop slides between a couple of redwoods that show battle scars, and then cuts through a claybank that looks strange to one used to sandbanks. It still stands there like the dozer cut it last week, hardly eroded at all in spite of all the rain.
All the way at the top of the ridge sits the shop, a steel building with a porch awning surrounded by found treasures and a broad parking area in front, also surrounded by treasures. A packrat myself, I had to feel at home.

Once inside the collection got a lot neater and extremely well organized. Lee's shop has just enough clearance to move and safely run the machinery, no more. I can certainly see why he is planning that new addition using the bridge crane for structure.

Lee was logged on as I drove up, his computer shoehorned into one end of his office between floor to ceiling shelves of books. A picture window in front of his regular desk looking out across the lot into the redwoods.

Grey beard, big smile and a hearty handshake.

What a pile of toys.  Mills, and lathes and welders, and breaks and saws all laid out in an interlocking maze. A roller bearing jib crane and hoist (with a snorkel fume exhaust mounted on it) over the assembly area and a car hoist built recessed into the floor. An astute eye's lifetime collection of bargains + a few judicious new purchaces to fill out the production capacity for his line of hydraulic presses.

It's a hull collection of guzintas and cumzotas and it floats.

Lee showed me one of his nifty little jewelry presses with some of the cutting and forming dies; pretty slick operation, simple and reliable.
Then he showed me how he had his mig unit set up for spray arc operation using argon with 2% O2 as shielding gas. Wow, hot, deep penetration, and NO spatter. most of my work has been on thinwall so my CO2 shield gas is fine but next time I'm into heavy structure, I'm headed to the store for some of that Ar-O2 2% mix.
Thanks, Lee.


Bruce, with your atv engine hoist, you'd get a kick out of his plans to build a 2 1/2 T truck frame and engine into a hoist to move and erect the bridge crane.

When you look at his place, ya gotta love it and his attitude. Here in CA the land of the ate hour traffic jam; Lee has a 150 ft (50m) commute... I'll grant you, it's all uphill but the view is great and the evening commute is a downhill run.

The phone kept ringing off the hook, and Lee said that he had work to keep him going 20 hrs a day 7 days a week. I believe it. I made my goodbyes and wandered back down the hill a little too slow for the locals. (@#^%$@# tourists, han't they ever seen a tree before) It was a Beautiful day, glimpses of the Pacific in the distance, sunshine, fresh, green and growing. First time they had three non-rainy days in a row this year.

Hey, this was a great outing.

Thank's again, Lee, for your hospitality and all.

Gene
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And thanks once more.

G.
   

Re: The man on the mountain top.

Lee Marshall
lmarshal@bonnydoonengineering.com
Fri Dec 2 '05

On Thu Dec 1 '05, GeneO wrote
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>I don't know how many of you have had the pleasure of visiting Lee up on Bonnydoon.

>It's been a while since I was there and I'm sure that the site is a bit more crowded now.

>I just thought you might enjoy my little trip up memory lane, sometime before March of 98 I don't have a date.  This is post I sent off to artmetal.
>----------------------------------------

>I drove up to Lee Marshall's shop on Monday.

>Beautiful setting, but a challenge to get there.
>Well maybe not a big challenge, but logging roads on the side of 45+ degree slopes that have been dignified with pavement but otherwise unchanged can be a challenge. My Dodge Stratus rental car scraped bottom 4 times while driving slowly up the "road".
>Lee's driveway up  to the shop slides between a couple of redwoods that show battle scars, and then cuts through a claybank that looks strange to one used to sandbanks. It still stands there like the dozer cut it last week, hardly eroded at all in spite of all the rain.
>All the way at the top of the ridge sits the shop, a steel building with a porch awning surrounded by found treasures and a broad parking area in front, also surrounded by treasures. A packrat myself, I had to feel at home.

>Once inside the collection got a lot neater and extremely well organized. Lee's shop has just enough clearance to move and safely run the machinery, no more. I can certainly see why he is planning that new addition using the bridge crane for structure.

>Lee was logged on as I drove up, his computer shoehorned into one end of his office between floor to ceiling shelves of books. A picture window in front of his regular desk looking out across the lot into the redwoods.

>Grey beard, big smile and a hearty handshake.

>What a pile of toys.  Mills, and lathes and welders, and breaks and saws all laid out in an interlocking maze. A roller bearing jib crane and hoist (with a snorkel fume exhaust mounted on it) over the assembly area and a car hoist built recessed into the floor. An astute eye's lifetime collection of bargains + a few judicious new purchaces to fill out the production capacity for his line of hydraulic presses.

>It's a hull collection of guzintas and cumzotas and it floats.

>Lee showed me one of his nifty little jewelry presses with some of the cutting and forming dies; pretty slick operation, simple and reliable.
>Then he showed me how he had his mig unit set up for spray arc operation using argon with 22 as shielding gas. Wow, hot, deep penetration, and NO spatter. most of my work has been on thinwall so my CO2 shield gas is fine but next time I'm into heavy structure, I'm headed to the store for some of that Ar-O2 2ix.
>Thanks, Lee.
>
>
> Bruce, with your atv engine hoist, you'd get a kick out of his plans to build a 2 1/2 T truck frame and engine into a hoist to move and erect the bridge crane.

>When you look at his place, ya gotta love it and his attitude. Here in CA the land of the ate hour traffic jam; Lee has a 150 ft (50m) commute... I'll grant you, it's all uphill but the view is great and the evening commute is a downhill run.

>The phone kept ringing off the hook, and Lee said that he had work to keep him going 20 hrs a day 7 days a week. I believe it. I made my goodbyes and wandered back down the hill a little too slow for the locals. (@#^P# tourists, han't they ever seen a tree before) It was a Beautiful day, glimpses of the Pacific in the distance, sunshine, fresh, green and growing. First time they had three non-rainy days in a row this year.

>Hey, this was a great outing.

>Thank's again, Lee, for your hospitality and all.

>Gene
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>And thanks once more.

>G.
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