8/11/21 Forge Committee meeting minutes

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Michael Atherton is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Forge Committee Meeting @ MakeICT Lounge
Time: Aug 11, 2021 07:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

Meeting ID: 886 1058 5172
Passcode: AtUN8a

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Hey Forge Committee,
Where are you storing your committee meeting notes. I picked on this expecting them… but they are not here.
Are they hiding under metalshop or are you going to have your own wiki page?

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It’s my bad, slow to report. Doing so now.

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MEMEBERS IN ATTENDANCE:

  • Michael Atherton - Vice Chair
  • Dean Day
  • James Lancaster
  • Tom Bloom
  1. 2x72 Grinder
  • Mike A. / Rustin A.: Work to completion of project slow/frozen due to outstanding time commitments.
  • All parts to complete project present, just need time to cut/weld/fit/test.
  • Question about belt material procurement raised. Unknown quantity and grit for grinder already on site, will try to get inventory of grit/type.
  1. Insurance Issue
  • Much discussion around how/why this has hampered the committee.
  • James L. had copy of the 2016 West Bend policy in effect during operation of forges at Douglass building.
  • Unsure of possible changes/restrictions in place with the current policy.
  • James L. would try to obtain the up to date policy language and look for changes/issues.
  1. Foundry
  • Dean D.: Ability to bring up a small scale/size foundry operation in relative short time
  • MakeICT currently has very small scale foundry abilities in jewelry lab for lost wax/spin casting.
  • Holding off further discussion until insurance matter is cleared up.
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Cool. Didn’t mean to pick on you. :slight_smile:
The notes are technically supposed to be on the wiki. It doesn’t look like you have a wiki page. I can make that for you if you like… and show you how to link notes on there. Or I can direct you to someone who can.

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I don’t have access to make/change wiki pages and to be honest never edit/added to any wiki in my life. If there is a procedure to get that access and a little how-to I can look up i have no problem with migrating things to the wiki, the forum under metalshop just seemed like the logical place people would go for info.

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If you can post on the forum, I don’t think you will have that much trouble with the wiki. Contact IT@makeict and tell them you need access to edit the wiki because you are doing notes for forge and they should hook you up. Also ask for a makeict email address and access to save in the Google Drive.

It would maybe take half an hour to show you how to hook things up.

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I got access and churned out a page with minutes that are basically copy/paste from the forum with links back to the forum page. I’ll try to make the forthcoming minutes less of a hack job and, time permitting, clean up the older ones.

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Cool!

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