Butts and Flanges/ Newsletter of
 The Cleveland Chapter of the PTG  

Meeting Monday April 12th 2004 at the shop of Stu Freedman. We start at 7pm with a greet and eat.
Tech begins when we see enough people.             43 Furnace St. Akron  330-376-3373

The Technical :   May be a simplistic tech for some of the guys, so I am hoping that the more experienced people will participate to give the less experienced members a view of how to approach action repair/rebuilding.  If there are enough guys, I thought of maybe putting teams together to evaluate actions and then compare results together.  If time permits it might be interesting to compare costs of materials from different suppliers.        Stu Freedman

DIRECTIONS        Address:  43 Furnace St. Akron  330-376-3373 
271 south--Rte.8 south--exit right Perkins St--right on Summit St   (2nd stop light).  Go to dead end which is Furnace St. and turn left.  My shop is in the 2nd building after the bridge on the right.   Because of the  detour go to the back of the building, which is on Ridge Street.   Go around the first detour sign.  Ridge is directly under the  bridge and goes right.  There is only one loading dock on that street, which is where  my shop is located. Either park behind the building, or  across the street at the train station.  Follow  the steps at the loading dock to the second set of doors, counting the loading dock as the first set.
 
from the West side take 77 south into Akron.  Take the innerbelt  (rte. 59) until it ends at a stop light.  Turn left at this light (Howard St.), go  to the second street, turn right on  Ridge St. (see above for rest of directions.)

P.S.      Bring a chair to the meeting,   Stu has a limited number of seats.


March Technical Review    Well......judging by the jump in attendance, seems lots of people are interested in
PitchLock couplers. Our near record breaking crowd, was treated to an in-depth examination of the newest tuning technology . In short, This system improves unison stability, while potentially reduces false beats and has a low cost. There is some interesting science going on here.

           

A big thanks to Sumwalt's for the uses of the facilities and to Rod Summerlin for catering the affair.

In other news; Lynn Gilmore is recovering from open-heart surgery at Aultman Hospital in Canton. The  procedure  was on Wednesday March 31st and went well. He is on schedule with his recovery.  I am sure he would like to hear from us so drop him a note of encouragement.   His home address is 5125 Beachview Circle,  NW Canton  OH.44139

Think about Election of officers

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