<div dir="ltr"><div><div>It is hard to be a steward of the school when they kick your but out the door. I am really glad to be back here though. I had a big hand in specifying what I wanted at our temporary facility and an even larger hand in developing requirements and specifications in our soon to be rehabbed Auditorium and the new shop. <br><br></div>Some good news came about after I was rehired. My position is not only safe but it is being expanded. My program is going to become a full career tech program that can have students attending it from three school districts (hopefully, soon to be five). There is a lot of good that can come from it. It is pretty exciting to switch from an after school and lunch period club activity into curriculum. There was and is a lot of teaching and learning going on but the added option of students getting to spend two, one and a half hour classes per year with me for two years is a really cool thing that I would have loved as a student. All of this will get me full teacher status and a bump in pay. That takes care of a lot of supervision concerns for the district and also enables me to directly supervise students on field trips. I am hoping to bring a group down to the USITT Ohio Valley Fall conference this year and maybe the national conference in a couple more years. <br></div><br>One guy was busted with some things from the school, none of it was from
my department though. The theft issues hit a few departments very
hard. The Instrumental department lost all of their guitars for their
guitar class. Insurance covered replacing the microphones and the
musical equipment but none of it should have ever been an issue. The
way the move was conducted obviously needs to be revisited before we
return to our rebuilt building. I would hope our administrators would be
on top of it but quite honestly, unless our insurance company steps in
and looks at the practices surrounding the move, I doubt anything will
change. <div><div><br>Anyhow... Carla, thank you for the suggestion. The VFD is a great idea. I don't anticipate cutting a lot of metal on the band saw but having the ability to slow down the blade for it may come in handy for the unanticipated thing that will come up and bite me in the backside if I don't have it as an option. <br><br></div><div>Keith<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 10:22 AM, Mt. Angel Performing Arts Center via Stagecraft <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
A lot of wonderful old iron can have a new lease on life by adding a Variable Frequency Drive.<br>
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Many VFDs take single phase input power and output 3-phase. A bonus is they can turn a fixed-speed 3-phase motor into variable-speed, so cutting wood, plastic, foam or metal is possible by adjusting the blade speed to the material.<br>
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We got our VFDs from Dealers Electric based on pricing at the time. They currently show a 2 horsepower single-phase input, 3-phase output unit for $159 plus shipping. I have no connection other than as a satisfied customer.<br>
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<<a href="http://dealerselectric.com/230V-single-phase-input.asp" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://dealerselectric.com/230V-single-phase-input.asp</a>><br>
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I'm sorry to hear your facility lost all that equipment to a preventable theft - that just sucks.<br>
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Carla<br>
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When you think about how bad your job is, remember that somewhere there's a guy in front of a tax office dressed as the Statue of Liberty.<span class="im HOEnZb"><br>
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