Intro

 

There is a good chance you either know me, you have found this from one of my other blogs or Google brought you to some of my ramblings here and you have either got lost or curiosity has got the best of you.

Welcome to my ramblings page. I made this as I didn't want to make a separate blog to cover all of the little thigs I have done that might interest one or two of you.
I have blogs covering a number of bikes, cars, 3Dprinting and even my own fledgling company Heggs Performance Engineering. 

I am an aviation engineer specialising in airframes, propulsion, hydraulic, pneumatic, environmental control systems. When I am not at work I fix, maintain and even build motorcycles. When they work I even race them sometimes!
 I can machine, weld (both metal and plastic), produce 3D printed components from my own designs and then produce them in metal on a CNC mill of that's what's needed. But we aren't here to hear all of the things I can do to a just bout acceptable standard.

With that I will happily tinker with anything within reason. As such I often find myself going down rabbit holes, trying to do something new and at the end have a load of hard sought information, with nowhere to really put it. I'm not one to horde information to myself, I'd like others to be able to use it to save their time, maybe improve on my work and share just the same. 

Usually forums are the place for this but I find they can be pretty toxic and unhelpful places 90% of the time. So I have made this page for all of that other stuff.
If you want to know more about the other stuff I have already published, then check out this page which lists them all.

If you want to know more about me then feel free to read some more of my ramblings here as they get deposited on this page but really you should find something better to do.


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