Dear Geo,
Thanks. I'm a wannabe wannabe machinist. Right now, a wannabe welder - next year a wannabe machinist. Nice to hear that people are into HAM radio. Being a young person, I come from the SDR world of GNUradio, HackRF, and RTLSDR.?
I like to build/repair analytical equipment - especially vintage stuff that is actually made of discrete components (and which was made before I was born). I'm currently retrofitting an old Zeiss (West Germany) microscope with the optics to do some Raman Spectroscopy. The amazing thing about it is that, every single part screws together - nothing is welded - everything comes apart - it was meant to be repaired.
All the best,
Justin ("Soren")