Hello: my name is...

[david tremaine]

Good day!

My name is David, and I am really excited to have stumbled onto your group! I've been reading about Techshop the last couple weeks, turning it over in my head and trying to figure out how I could help make something like that happen here in Spokane. Read about maker/hackerspaces, too, and decided to google spokane makerspace. Lo and behold

Me: 25, perennially unemployed, dinking around with this or that (gardening, helping friends with projects, dumpster diving for weird stuff and food, taking things apart for fun and profit, amassing tools and materials and organizing a little workshop in my parents' garage [planning for my eventual estate sale]).

Ongoing projects:
- a VW rabbit pickup I'm trying to fix up and simplify (too many wires!) and hope to modify to be an all-around work truck. I'd like to add on-board air via old AC compressor, a "weldernator", good secure storage for a lightweight-yet-robust-and-diverse toolkit, possibly a sturdy inverter/extra alternator/extra battery for 120vac - if I can't figure out how to just use tools with universal motors

- helping my neighbor (Dave Hartman, airplane machinist of 30 years, retired fireman, now at Mackay Manufacturing) clean up his shop so he can quit his job and go to work for himself. Says he wants to teach classes out of his garage here on South Hill (Manito area) in welding, among other things.

- my little workshop, as mentioned above. trying to organize it in such a way that I know where to find and store everything, that it stays clean without any apparent effort from me (proving to be tricky) and is not an assault on the senses (been looking at interiors of modern japanese houses - spartan looks belie fantastic hidden cupboards and cabinets - a seemingly empty room can contain all of a person's worldy possessions)

- studying machining with all the seriousness I can muster (ain't much)

- The Garden! hoping to build some sturdy trellises this spring, finally figure out my drip irrigation system, and someday soon, start working on a rooftop garden (I like heights)