Forge Team Meeting Sunday 31/07/2022

The next Blacksmithing & Casting Team Meeting will be held on the 31st July 2022 10am. The meeting will be held physically on site and virtually on the Meetings voice channel in the HSBNE discord server.

There will be open forging after the meeting.

As per HSBNE’s Teams Policy, any items requiring a vote must be posted here to allow for 5 days notice to the membership. Thus the deadline for agenda items with votable aspects for this meeting is 11:59pm the Tuesday before. Any items posted after this deadline will not be able to be voted upon this meeting and tabled for the next meeting for discussion and team member voting. Any HSBNE member may attend the meeting, but only Blacksmithing & Casting Team members are able to participate in voting. There will be open member forging after the meeting.

Standing Agenda Items:
Checking of volunteer contract roles/tasks
General Business
Updates on Ongoing Projects
Updates on forge area equipment
Voting Items
Announcements

Agenda Items:

Meeting opened: 10:30am

Attendees:
Fraser Paterson, Jess Wessling, Zak Forester, Zac Marcus, Alex Wixted, Eris Ryan

Checking of volunteer contract roles/tasks
All volunteers have completed their roles as required.

  • Fraser Paterson
  • Jess Wessling
  • Zak Forester
  • Zac Marcus
  • Alex Wixted

Financial Update:
We have money. (currently $831.98)
we are going to spend the money. (all of it. maybe.)

General Business

Updates on Ongoing Projects
Zac has been busy updating all the wiki pages for equipment - If anything needs a page or updating, let him know!
swage block - hopefully finish it up today, then it will be ready for paint.
Jess is going to buy the ratchet straps for canvas cover, and bring in her leather sewing machine to sew the cover.

New Project:
Scrap Steel storage rack
Fraser has completed a 3D model for it, will aim to build it from scrap steel.

Updates on forge area equipment
I have purchased new power cable to improve power hammer performance/reduce voltage drop.
should make a significant difference!

Voting Items
-none

Announcements
for any fuel/consumables usage from forge area, please pay for usage using the forge payID: hsbne.inc.forge81_ca@nium.com

Meeting Closed: 10:57am