On April 4, 1996 the first meeting was held of a group dedicated to:
Our meetings are held at the Charles River Museum of Industry at 150 Moody St. in Waltham MA. The Museum is a great place to visit (they have a WEB site under construction). The collection covers a wide range of things mechanical- engines, weaving machines, clocks, clockmaking machinery, autos, bicycles, a steam fire engine, and lots more. They are located in a 19th century Boilerhouse of a Mill complex.
NEMES club meetings are the FIRST Thursday of each month at 7:00PM.
Our group is very informal and is focused on BUILDING and not collecting. We share experiences on a wide range of metal and other precision working. Each meeting includes a time for members 'Show and Tell' where members are invited to show us a project in the works, to ask the assembled group for advice, or to tell the group of some new find, like a good scrap metal source!
We also have a featured speaker at each meeting. The first meeting speaker was Roland Gaucher showing and describing the building of a one quarter size model of a WWI Bentley BR2 Rotary Aircraft engine.
We select speakers form our own membership, and have had several technical speakers, like a Sales Engineer from Locktite Corp. We have had Rudy Kouhoupt, well known writter for HOME SHOP MACHINIST, who will be retuning in March 2000.
We held our first show on February 15, 1997. We had 43 exhibitors and over 100 'things' on display, ranging from several model locomotives, a few internal combustion engines, a self propelled steam fire engine and lots more. We had similar shows each year since then.
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We organized a charter bus to take 30 of us to the North American Show in April of 1997, and to the Cabin fever Show in each year since 1998.
