Friends and Other Characters

Friends who Tinker:

• Trevor Blackwell
• George Greenough is at the cutting edge of cinematography, but he still doesn't have email!! A friend maintains the page for him and can relay info via phone.
• Jimmy Hotz, inventor of the Hotz Box
• Mike Kan, for a guy that doesn't own a car (in California?!) that's pretty extraordinary already.
• Robert Kennedy III, an expert on a great many things that are relevant nowadays...
• Fuzzy Mauldin, really into battlebots and has an awesome team backing him up.
• Chuck McManis, current Prez of the Silicon Valley Homebrew Robotics Club
• Peter Midnight
• Bryan Mumford is heavily into clocks.
• Scott Price, a most excellent photographer, known widely as the fellow who snapped no less than seven dolphins together surfing a wave in Southern California.
• Steve Roberts, author of Computing Across America and instigator of the Microship Project
• Stig
• Tobias Tenney, part time web designer and full time rock star wannabe, heh.
• Dick Vennerbeck, organizer of the Great California Delta Steamboat Meet, collector of interesting engines and a very good machinist. He founded this company, then they threw him out. If you want to get in touch with him drop me a line and I'll forward it to him...
• John "Phantom" Woodson is quite a tinkerer! He does everything from sheet metal forming to antique arms collecting and manufactures replicas of the venerable "Phantom" pop-pop boat. He's webmaster at the Stanley Steamers site.

Other Home Shop Hackers, Tinkerers & r.c.m-ers

• Vance Bass, the "Pop-pop" guy, has a link to a program about valve gear and valve events..
• Bill Beatty and his incredible Science Hobby Homepage
• Dr Shawn Carlson, the last person to pen "The Amateur Scientist" in Scientific American, is also the founder of the Society for Amateur Scientists
• Stan Cotreau maintains the Harvard University Department of Physics Machine Shop Projects page, which is chock full of interesting stuff. He also moderates the Yahoo group for discussing various shop projects at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Machineshop_Projects_Plans
• Jim Faliveno maintains Papa's Antique (Gas) Engine Page
• Charlie Gallo has a great page up; very useful!
• Ron Ginger builds model gas engines and knows a great deal about the manufacture of camshafts and other complicated components.
• James E. Harris Ornamental Turning Page
• Trevor Heath
• John Hofstad-Parkhill
• David Hoskin has constructed a downloadable, searchable database of almost all issues of Engineering In Miniature.
• This is a link related to Tim Hunkin & Rex Garrod, instigators of The Secret Life of Machines, by and for tinkerers, the best thing on television!
• Another Tim Hunkin site: Cabaret Mechanical Theater
• And yet another Tim Hunkin homepage
• Kelley and Rob's Workshop, aka RustyIron.com
• Charlie Lear
• Jim Leggett maintains the Montreal Live Steamers homepage
• Stewart and Leta Marshall's Home page
• Andy Patterson is heavily into steam cars and maintains the Steam Automotive Technology page
• Bill Phillips has done the incredible: he has constructed a downloadable, searchable database of almost all issues of Model Engineer magazines.
• Steve Rayner
• Ron Thompson's wonderful plansandprojects.com

Just Plain Friends:

• Jamie Fenton is a garden railway nut who, at last account now leads a very different life style than when I met him...
• Here's Jamie's um... other page
• Pat Fish, the tattooing babe with a &quot40-pound heart&quot.
• Jim Frew, who collects horrible puns and great URLs...
• Ted Kaehler
• Ernie Leimkuhler, a most excellent weldor. a great teacher and maintainer of an awesome pile of links
• Tamara Munzer is reeeeally into data visualization...
• Don Norris maintains a huge Surf Weather page
• Richard Shaffer , an old chum from high school days
• Jim Sitterley, aka Little Emo finally has a page up! If you ever need a violinist...

Un-met Friends:

• Doctor Demento, exiled from Southern California, but now global courtesy of the web...

Friends with Dead Links

• David Berkstrasser (http://www.formus.com), the Guru of Stereolithography
• Kurt Bjorn (http://www.flash.net/~pyroware)
• Mark Burgess (http://www.modeller.demon.co.uk), a model engineer
• Dave Dewey (http://www.quicknet.com/~djdewey) is a steam enthusiasts with a degree in Museology who also collects and operates railroad engine cars. He's the only guy I know who repairs electric trains...
• Jon Etheredge's Steamboat page (http://www.inetport.com/~jonether/ABBA/)
• Chuck Fellows (http://members.home.net/cfellows/chuckf.htm) maintained the Metal Working Home Page
• Ron Graham (http://members.aol.com/RonGraham1)
• Chris Heapy used to maintain the Model Engineer Support Page (http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~chrish/homepge2.htm)
• Paul Kobres (http:/www.voyager.co.nz/~djyoung/bladeless1.html) was building a bladeless gas turbine. Anyone know what happened??
• Geoff Krampetz (http://www.sover.net/~geoffk) was heavily into electromagnetic propulsion and other interesting stuff...
• Creon Levit (http://science.nas.nasa.gov/~creon)
• John Marks, surfer, builder of satellites, guru of composite materials and a really nice guy
• Roy Schmaus (http://www.ee.ualberta.ca/~schmaus/)
• Dave Smith (http://www.mindspring.com/~davidsmith2/)
• John A. Stewart (http://debra.dgbt.crc.ca/~luigi/tich.html) had a page up describing how he built the Tich locomotive
• Jim Stiles (http://www.tinkertech.com/tinkerers/Jim/bio.html), inventor, woodworker, hacking internal combustion engines

Folks I'd Like to Find

• My old boss, Tom Nelson, last known whereabouts: Santa Rosa, California
• Lindy Peters, last known to be reporting the weather in very Northern California

Just plain Dead Friends