Newsletter 11 – Winter 2007
NEWS AND VIEWS
Meeting was held at the Farm Market Kitchen in Algoma, Wisconsin, approximately 30 members were present.
Mike Wahl thanked Paul Reckelberg for setting up today’s meeting and tours.
After discussion on a club website, motion was made and carried to allow up to $500 per year to set up, maintain and register a domain name for the club website.
Motion was made and carried to pay $60 to the Farm Market Kitchen for use of the facilities and for coffee during the meeting today.
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
I would like to begin by hoping you all had Happy Holidays and that the New Year will bring you all your hopes and dreams. As the cold sets in, we all have the thoughts of warm weather and spring fire-up.
The New Year brings something new to the organization, a website. I would like to thank Vicky Bloemers, Amy Wahl, and Jamie Stevenson for all of their hard work on this.
The website address is www.whsea.org.
An overview of the website will be presented at the upcoming meeting.
Last week, I was at the NBIC meeting in Phoenix, Arizona. I thought a trip to Arizona this time of year would be a nice time away from our Wisconsin weather. Boy did Mother Nature trick me; Phoenix received snow for the first time in many years while we were there.
The new sub-group that oversees Appendix C discussed and approved the rewrite of Appendix C. This means that the rewrite will be forwarded to the main committee for approval and if approved will be included in the December 2007 release of the NBIC. At the meeting, I will go over the current state of Appendix C.
Currently, Tom Dillon and I are working on plans to have a joint meeting between Minnesota and Wisconsin to discuss the changes and additions to Appendix C and how they will affect us. We are hoping to have a meeting sometime in March in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. We have a lot of details to pull together yet, but I hope to have more information by the upcoming meeting. As more information is available, we will add to our website.
This is a lot planned for the upcoming meeting so I hope to see you all there.
Mike Wahl
WHSEA WEBSITE
As Mike stated in his President’s message our club website is up and running. Please take a look.
Thanks again to Amy, Vicky and Jamie for their hard work.
NEXT GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING
Next Meeting Dates and Places
Our next meeting will be on February 10, 2007 at Rock River.
Our annual meeting will be May 5, 2007 at the Baraboo show grounds.
CLUB LOGO
At the last meeting Dennis Lauer presented examples of letterhead with our club logo to vote on.
A motion was made and carried to accept one of the examples. Dennis will send a copy of the letterhead to the President, Secretary, and to Jeff Bloemers.
NBIC
At the last meeting Mike Wahl gave a report on the latest NBIC happenings.
Mike and Tom Dillon are working on a repair section for Appendix C Historical Boilers.
Mike talked about licensing engineers for operation in the future. Both he and Peter Burno stressed the importance of being at the front end of this issue.
STATE CODE CHANGES COMMITTEE
Peter Burno indicated that Wisconsin is now the first state to establish an in-service inspection.
STEAM SCHOOL
At the last meeting, Jeff Bloemers gave an update indicating steam school was held October 6, 7 and 8 at Rock River. School went very well with 49 students attending and great weather for the entire weekend. Enrollment was full by Labor Day with an additional 20 or more wishing to attend.
School enrollment was discussed at the Board of Directors meeting where it was decided that repeat students would no longer attend for free. It was also decided that repeat students could attend at half price if there were openings after 15 days prior to school dates. A repeat student may register prior to the 15 days at full price.
Jeff talked about the various places that the school is advertised and indicated that the Steam School Committee will decide on any further advertising. Jeff indicated that Tom Hall donated his honorarium ($150) to our club in exchange for a letter of confirmation of his assistance with instruction for tax purposes and teacher re-licensure hours. Jeff will take care of getting the letter to Tom.
Pictures of steam school will be submitted to Steam Traction and Engineers & Engines magazines for possible free advertising.
Betsy Lauer received a round of applause for her article about our steam school which gave it a lot of publicity.
Steam school 2007 will be held on September 28, 29 and 30 at the Rock River grounds.
There are some 2006 textbooks for sale at a cost of $5 each.
CLASSIFIEDS
FOR SALE
1913 J. I. CASE 50 Horsepower traction engine.
I have for sale an early small barreled 50 horse case steam engine. This engine was built during the transition from the early to the later style engines. This engine has contractors fuel bunkers and a cast iron smoke stack. It is had a baker piston valve installed. The gearing and axles, governor, valve and piston rod have all been redone. Included with the engine is all the metal to make a new water tank.
If you are interested please contact me Dean Meissner 1-920-488-3119
For Sale
2” SA176-A boiler tubes with .105 wall thickness (12 gauge). They are new tubes and will include MTR’s. They were stored outside for a short time and have some light surface rust but mill stampings are can still be read.
I also have a small quantity of 1 ½ boiler tubes with .095 (13 gauge) wall thickness. These are new tubes and include MTR’s. Both sizes are $2.00 per foot.
Mike Wahl
(920) 898 1853
WANTED
Large whistle valves 1 ½, 2, 2 ½, 3
Chuck Sindelar
1-262-547-8658
Crsindelar@webtv.net
NEWSLETTER CONTRIBUTIONS
Dean Meissner
330 Birchwood Lane
Theresa, WI 53091
1-920-488-3119