User talk:Mjn

hi mark! would you like me to merge your two pages, Mark J Norton and User:Mjn? this way, we can reduce redundancy and avoid confusing people checking out your profile. you can check out how mine works and tell me if that's fine with you :) my pages are Pepe Bawagan and User:Syk0 saje

--syk0saje 08:54, 4 May 2011 (PDT)

I've considered it, but there is a problem. My login name is Mjn, which shows up in the logs, etc. However, that's probably not enough info to tell people who I am, so I have retained Mark J Norton. I have cross-linked the pages. What is your opinion? I suppose we could FORWARD User:Mjn to Mark J Norton. That would work for me.

I had a look at your pages. I guess it comes down to: do you want to be known by your name or by your handle (login name)?

I think I'll leave both of my pages up for now and think about how to merge them at a future date.

--User:Mjn 12:08, 4 May 2011 (EDT)

Hi Mark, I've noticed your contributions to the Nickel-Iron battery concept. I'd like to compare notes with you, as I have only a basic understanding of its chemistry. I've got a decent design figured out, using sheet steel and nickel hydroxide (build the battery discharged, then charge it). Turns out that a 1kWh cell is quite feasible. Anyway, I hope to learn a thing or two from you and I hope we can flesh this battery out as well.
Thanks! Colin 14:38, 16 May 2011 (PDT)

CAD for a steam engine

Mark, I have been noticing you are putting up a whole bunch of stuff related to the steam engine. Specifically you have enough diagrams of different designs that it should be possible for me to knock together a rough model of one of them. I was wondering if you had a particular design that you think we will use that I could try to make a CAD model for.

I am looking to make a tutorial for how to use FreeCad to contribute to OSE and wanted a model to use as an example and I think this would be a good one. All the diagrams/drawings you have uploaded make it easy to put together pictures of what we want combined with pictures of what you do in FreeCad which I think will make a very nice tutorial. The model would be mostly procedural based, meaning you would be able to change things like the cylinder bore and other properties by just changing a single number and other parts of the model adjust accordingly. Although it will probably not be a final CAD model, and may not even be the design we ultimately use, it should be useful to you in your design work to have a 3D model to examine/tweak, rather than having to work all in 2D. Anyway, let me know what you think of this. -Andrew Buck 06:20, 25 May 2011 (PDT)