NAME> Alan Moore

POSTS TO RCM AS> Al Moore

E-MAIL> alan.moore@lmco.com
        
WEB PAGE> http://home.ix.netcom.com/~asmoore

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BIOGRAPHY OR OTHER INFORMATION
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I'm not usually the do it yourself type, owing to my mechanical ineptitude. I did
work in a job shop for a while, putting myself through school for the second
degree, and did some small metalworking jobs while working as a chemist at
NASA-Ames. I'm now an engineer (doing failure analysis) for Lockheed-Martin.

I've begun getting into metalworking as a hobby because of having 'inherited'
some tools (lathe, drill press, bandsaw...) from my father-in-law, a long time
mechanical engineer. The principal use of these tools now is for me to try and
imbue my younger stepson with a sense of how things can be done, and of the
discipline of working around machinery.

My wife, with me in the picture, is really the mechanical one of us. She faith heals
machines. All she needs to do is put her hands on my motorcycle, and it promptly
returns to full function.