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[Remeguy]

Morning everyone.
Thanks for welcoming me to this forum i,m looking forward to advice and projects some have done.
I bit about myself i left school in 1981 and started a Maggie Thatcher YOP scheme (youth opportunity program) 25 quid a week.
Slave labour if you ask me' anyhow i got lucky the engineering place i was sent to ended up with me spending 7.5 yrs on a bridgeport which i loved.
Spent 22 years in the specialist army reserve in REME. Over the last couple of weeks i purchased my own bridgy and a mercer lathe which i can't find any info on.
Bridgy needs new spindle bearings and X axis nut's.

Anyhow hope to expand my knowledge with you guy's .

[Kitwn]

Welcome, my dad did his national service in the R.E.M.E just after the war, I think he was the last of the forced recruits before it was abolished, he loved it, I think it would not be a bad thing to bring back, some of todays youths leave a little to be desired and it would do them the world of good, after they get over the shock that is

When I was a lad you'd quite often hear "two years in the army would do 'em good". Then I grew up a bit and it got to the point of "If their parents had had two year in the army it would do 'em good"