Readers' Workshops - Andrew Johnston

摘要

While at secondary school I had a small workshop in the end of my parents' garage with an old Logan lathe and an unknown make of pillar drill. With help from the local model engineering club I started building 'Mona', a 0-6-2 tank locomotive by LB5C. The machines were sold when I left school and went to university. At school I had started dabbling in electronics and this continued at university and beyond. I also took up gliding and power flying. During this period, I had access to a lathe and milling machine for small jobs at my flying dub. Nearly 20 years ago I moved out of a city flat and into a bungalow in a village, one reason being to get the space to set up a proper workshop in a double garage.