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Christmas Day 2025 at Mates
Scarborough Mates had its usual open house for Mates members and family on Christmas Day 2025. There were lots of mince pies, Christmas cake, and other festive nibbles – and the Christmas jumpers were out in force!
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Austin 7 Reconstruction
Lou Ratcliffe and Mike Pixton are into classic cars. They belong to the local classic car club. At Mates they are engaged in reconstructing an Austin 7. They have the basic chassis shown in the photo above, and want to turn it into something like the “blue racer” seen in the commercial photo below. It’s
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3D Helps The Pug Mill
The ceramics group has a “Pug Mill”. This machine is best described as a mince-meating machine made for clay. It has a big corkscrew that compresses and forces clay through a fixed orifice. The clay emerges at a standard consistency free of any trapped air. The clay is then made available for use in Mates.
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Serendipity at Bridlington
.On the 7th September, Serendipity went to the Bridlington Model Railway show. It was held in the large sports complex near the old town. We took the Railcar with Batman & Wonder Woman on the top and Woody riding shotgun on the back together with other locomotives. It was the first outing for “Toby”, the
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Body Armour By 3D Printing
Paul is a Sci-Fi fan and volunteers at the Spa Sci-Fi show each year. He is using 3D printing to produce body armour and weapons as seen in the “Aliens” film franchise. The body armour is based on that of the United States Colonial Marines as seen in that film. The gun depicted is a
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Scalby Fair 2025
Scarborough Mates had a great day at Scalby Fair – the sun shone and people thronged the village! Our lathe, model railway, scroll saw, and 3D printer demos went down well, as did Splat the Rat!
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Model Railway Show July 2025
Scarborough Mates was at the Model Railway display at Newby & Scalby Community Hall – And it was pretty busy! There were a lot of mates there to help out – particular thank yous to Chris Cammish, Brian H, Ted, Mike P, and Fran.
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Mates Open Day 2025
Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves at the mates open day, fellow Mates, helpers and visitors alike! The place was buzzing! gallons of tea and coffee were drunk and the cakes sold out REALLY fast! And what is more, the sun was shining too.
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Workshop Refurbishment
Recently we had a review of the large machine tools and made some changes. We have a new table saw, thicknesser and scroll saw as a result. It was decided we should refurbish the workshop with new paint on the floor, walls and the ceiling. That is largely completed. The machines are all available to
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2nd Potters Wheel
Scarborough Mates has recently obtained a second Potters wheel. It came in as a donation and is very similar to our existing wheel, so no issues in using it. The only difference is that it’s coloured orange instead of blue. Its available for use by ceramics mates as required.