Today we will be leaving Naples to head off to Rimini and the exhibition. I had hoped to look at the new laser cutting machine they got in (and play) but unfortunately one of the motors on that isn’t working properly and they need a replacement. I was gonna play with the laser welder and but that is only partly set up and they still need to get the proper laser goggles to go under the helmet for that but it looks interesting and should produce a neat job.

Finally the advanced bending machine that can also curve metal is still at the airport waiting for a professional install, it’s a rather large machine and has to be installed absolutely level on a special base.

I have had a chance to look at the one group Vostock and get it all set up for the exhibition and get all the settings as we want them. I’m looking forward to Rimini but it’s apparently very very cold.

We will have minimas Vostocks the Vesuvius and slushy machines at the display.

    hornbyben Please don’t tell us you would like one of this at your place! 😜😂

      LMSC might have to be a smaller one. I’ve always fancied a small computer controlled 5 axis mill, but haven’t come up with a project that justifies it (yet 😅)

      hornbyben you need at least one double garage or more to house the laser cutter in, I was looking forward to playing with it so a bit disappointed one of the stepper motors was delivered faulty.

      Just arrived at the Hotel (12:45 am) in Rimini, will set up at 7.30 am.

      It’s owned by a friend of the Cortese family, so cheap rates.

      Rooms are basic but clean, don’t need any more.

      DavecUK Rimini in winter brings to mind Fellini’s delightful, semi-autobiographical film about the town, Amarcord. If you haven’t seen it, it’s worth your while to track it down.

        mathof2 I wish I could but I suspect there will be no time. Already late setting up because of the big queue and the need to go back and check in half a mile away.

        The organisation and admin is not terribly good at these exhibitions.

          DavecUK There’s no rush. You can get a DVD or stream it when you’re back home.

          This is our stand right now!

          This is roughly the state of everyone else…but we didn’t use workmen. Now we have all the stuff to put in the stand, many hours work.

          I have fond memories of chatting with a German engineer on his way to a trade show.
          It was back in 1988 and we were on a Eurail train.
          I remember that he spoke about how the German stands would have been designed for months, prefabricated and delivered in flat packs with every screw accounted for.
          They would turn up a week before with exactly the right number of workers to erect them and have a nice, clean, functional display that showed off all their manufacturing skills.
          Then, he said, the Italians would turn up at the last moment, throw something up, decorate it with colours and bling.
          Then they would fill it with beautiful and stylish products, women and men and take the show by storm.

            DavecUK I was going to ask if you were going to Rimini before you posted. I worked for many years in the Exhibition industry about 24 years in total, 14 of those at the Olympia exhibition centre in Hammersmith. Spent around another 10 years working on the stands carrying out the electrics.All around the country. Good fun when I was younger.only went abroad twice, once to Amsterdam and the second time to Geneva. Brings back some good memories.