I have two more videos from the laser and lathe demos. I will upload them next, assuming the Internet is working faster. I’ve also completed all your metal name cards, we will give them to Nadezda to hand out soon, probably later today (it’s 00:45 already!)

Sorry for the delay, video uploads are going VERY slowly today. Here’s a short video of our students using a welder for the first time. This was only a quick introduction, we didn’t really have time to do any in-depth work. If anyone is interested in learning more about welding, feel free to contact me…

Since there seems to be interest in welding, here’s some more information. First, some definitions that will be hard to translate to some languages: Soldering: Attaching two items, normally metal but could even be glass, with a third, low melting temperature metal such as lead, tin, or a mix. simple to do can attach two…

Here, for your viewing pleasure, is Nadezda using an angle grinder for the first time and learning to weld. After a few minutes she was enough of an expert to repair a broken flower stand.

Starting this week we will be giving hands-on demonstrations of some machine shop items. The plan is each student will be able to make a simple item out of steel which they can keep. For this they will learn to use a horizontal bandsaw which can cut steel up to 100mm x 150mm They will…

Among other things, we will be offering lessons in the use of metal working tools so you will be able to do things like this. For safety reasons, these will have to be restricted lessons, but we’ll try to have lots of pictures and videos. Right now we’re still setting up our shop. We haven’t…