Thursday 5 October 2006

12 Noon (?) Planning Committee/Help staff meet

Preliminary prep work Unisaw(s) and HD Shaper(s)
Other prep work
Visit to Berland’s House of Tools/Nicholson’s, etc.

6:30-ish.....Dinner

Friday 6 October 2006

12 Noon.....Registration at Illinois Railway Museum
1:00 pm.....ArnFest Officially Begins

Introduction
Orientation
Wood Shop Tour

2:00 pm.....Leave IRM for Pleasant Street Machinery
3:00 pm.....Arrive at Pleasant Street Machinery

Saturday 7 October 2006

6:45 am.....Leave HI for IRM
7:30 am.....ArnFest Swap-a-Rama
9:00 am.....Three Rings of Demonstrations and Workshops

Unisaw

Disassembly

Cleaning

Repairs

Bearings

Shaper

Disassembly

Cleaning

Repairs

Bearings

Workshops

Setting Jointer Knives—Bob Vaughan

Tag Restoration (think Unisaw)—Dick Streff &

HD Shaper Bearings—Bob Vaughan

Rust Removal Techniques:

§ Electrolysis—Ray Muno

§ Needle chipper—Bob Kutella/Karl Shields

Unisaw bearing replacement

Unisaw

Clean-up

Repairs

Shaper

Clean-up

Repairs

Workshops

Babbitt Bearings—Kirk Poore, Ray Muno & friends

Easy Drill bit sharpening—Bob Vaughan

IRM Wood Shop Tour—Bob Kutella

Delta-ography—Keith Bohn and Joe Potter

New Forum Q&A/Live Tech Support—Tony Schmaling and Barry Schmaling

5:30 pm.....Leave for Crystal Lake Holiday Inn
7:00 pm.....ArnFest Banquet

Food (of course!)
Fellowship
Raffle (Proceeds to benefit IRM and OWWM.com and OWWM.org)
Auction (Proceeds to benefit IRM and OWWM.com and OWWM.org)

Unisaw/”Pimp My Saw”
Craftsman Band Saw
Fred Baker Drill Press
W-T or J-Line Jig Saw
More Shop Shots & Show-n-Tell

Sunday 8 October 2006

9:00 am.....All hands on deck to finish IRM’s HD Shaper

Final restos
Reassembly
Set-up
[If finished, then we’ll proceed with other workshops]

Flat-belt lacing—Ray Muno and Joe Potter
IRM Tour I
Others

12 Noon.....Lunch at IRM
1:00 pm.....Q and A with The Professor—Bob Vaughan
2:30 pm.....IRM Tour II

Train rides
Final Demonstrations

4:00 pm.....Closing Ceremonies

Next year’s plans
Photographs
Good-byes

Enjoy IRM!