BIM Task Group Newsletter 21st Edition

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Newsletter, 21st edition | Week ending 9th June 2013
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There must have been some funny stories!
Any you can share?
My trouble is that I tend to laugh in all the
wrong places ... it gets me into trouble
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So for someone so switched onto digital
construction why are you so interested in
analogue clocks and watches?
On one level precision mechanical watch/clock
manufacture is ‘advanced manufacturing’ and
I suspect been using sophisticated software
for ‘donkey years’. Even mechanical watchmakers
continually innovate in design and
utilise modern high-grade ceramic materials
We understand you are a fan of mechanical
time pieces .
Yes, I have two main hobbies - medal collecting
to the Great War (and hence my often
cited date of 21st March 1918 in connection
with the strategy) and I am a member of the
OMRS. As you correctly say, I am doing my
examinations for the British Horological Institute
- in fact, badly, as the BHI have amazing
craft persons as exam markers - they don’t
dumb-down, they don’t pass second best and
they are not driven by ‘pass’ statistics (as I am
shortly to find out) - long may that live.
and, of course, they aim to produce something
which works accurately first time - not unlike
construction. Software tools do have many
‘mind-blowing’ attributes but can it match the
feeling of handling a well-crafted mechanical
object? I love handling something built by
people long ago, sharing the same experience
of generations of craft persons in dismantling/
repairing the object (and probably use the
same descriptive language) and the intense
concentration and ‘nerves’ of replacing parts of
no greater that a couple of millimetres knowing
they could ‘ping’ if you get it wrong ( I recommend
everyone have a go ) In short, its like
the construction industry it is about talented
people - constructing incedible structures.
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Tell us something about yourself we would
not know.
I am a member of MCIPS.
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