UKLEM 23 - 10 Year Anniversary - Surfleet 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st AUGUST 2017

The 23nd (ish!!) United Kingdom Laser Enthusiasts Meeting
UKLEM - 23 - Surfleet, South Lincolnshire England UK
18th, 19th, 20th, 21st AUGUST 2017

The dates for the hall are booked for the next Surfleet Laser Enthusiasts Bash and it will be on the 18th (Friday), 19th (Saturday), 20th (Sunday) & 21st (Monday) of AUGUST 2017 starting at around 09.30hrs Friday Morning TILL 17:00hrs on Monday.

All the usual Surfleet gubbins plus the upper gallery & hall area will be available again for Snogging, Carnal activities, Sleeping & Snore practice purposes as normal.
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There is a huge cooker & 3x fridges available to use throughout the weekend even though the Kitchen area IS the main workshop area!
Electronics, Electrical, Pulse Jets :) Multicopters and general Radio Control equipment also very welcome.
CAA outdoor laser approval will be sorted for the Friday, Saturday & Sunday night outdoor bashes as usual.
Bring your BBQ's, Horses, Sheep, Antelope's, Bleach, Frogs etc and hope for some decent weather and nice hazy, cloudy nights.
NO Chinese lanterns Please!
Milling machines accepted as long as you leave them outside in the rain :)

Surfleet Village Hall
Station Road
Surfleet
Spalding
Lincolnshire
UK
PE11 4DA

http://www.multimap.com/maps/?zoom=1...%3DGB&qs=PE114DA[/URL]

Places to stay:

http://www.shipinnsurfleet.com/[/URL] - ABSOLUTELY SHITE PLACE - THEY TREAT YOU AS FORTH CLASS CITIZENS - DON'T BOTHER!!
http://www.theriversidehotel.info/[/URL] - A bit naff but they don't mess customers about like the Ship does! Food is good! LANDLORD IS A BIT WIERD.

Travelodge Spalding
Springfields Outlet Centre
Camel Gate
Spalding
0871 984 6383

Failing this, there are plenty of B&B's around the area all findable on Google.

THE COST FOR ANYONE ATTENDING FOR UP TO 12 HOURS WILL BE £15 PER PERSON, ANY LONGER THAN 12 HOURS AND THE CHARGE WILL BE £40 PER PERSON - NO EXCEPTIONS TO THIS RULE PLEASE.
ALL NEWCOMERS WILL NOT BE CHARGED AT ALL!!

Payment can be made via PayPal or Direct bank transfer.

Paypal 'GIFT' only to: smogthemog at gmail dot com

Bank details given via PM only.

The hall fee's need to be covered and with a few of these meetings in the past, being short of bodies, I need to make sure the hall fee's are covered hence the price. It's basically £10 a day for sheer unadulterated enjoyment of the highest order :)

You will be issued with Black bin bags to be kept at your area and ALL your rubbish from the weekend MUST go in these bags AND TAKEN HOME WITH YOU!!! No exceptions to this PLEASE!

Upon early leaving and on the Monday during clear up of the event you will be expected to tidy our area and remove cable ties, tape etc, stack your chairs and fold down your table before you go.
It will be greatly appreciated if this is done xxx

There are no other rules at this event which is what makes this event what it is, chilled, easy and sociable.

The organiser accepts NO responsibility if you get injured in ANY WAY and by coming to the meeting you accept full responsibility for your actions. You understand the dangers involved and will not nail my arse to a wall if you get blinded by a stray beam of nice coherent laser light - OK!!! if YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THESE TERMS THEN PLEASE DON'T COME.

Please keep your equipment and area neat and tidy AND PLEASE, NO CABLES ACROSS THE CENTER OF THE HALL, ACROSS EMERGENCY EXITS & GENERAL DOORWAYS

Come, enjoy and be very Lasery!

Thanks again for organising this event Jim. We know it causes you a degree stress at every event, but i'm sure if it ever got to the stage of being short of funds we'd make sure you were never out of pocket.

I've booked at the Mermaid for the Friday and Saturday evenings, so I will be there around lunchtime Friday and i'm afraid I have to leave around mid day on Sunday. If there's anything I/we can do to make things easier for you please let me/us know.

Cheers

Jem

Hi Jim,
Looking forward to the 10th Anniversary of the UK LEM very much.
I will bring 8. and the two of us will be there and appreciate all your efforts, of course we will help you blind the windows of the hall again on the Friday morning.

Wouldn't it be fun to look up old pictures of earlier LEMs to make some sort of digital collage/photobook to show each other what fun we had ?


My memories of the first UK LEM i attended (in Leicester):
- Bringing a broken 150mW Lasever green and with help of you guys replaced pump diode and got it working again outputting 212mW
- Robin Bowden that brought a small 10W CO2 with power supply using it as a "blaster" . Dangerous but cool... and it popped balloons ;-)
- Rob telling me to explain all about Medialas Mamba (my first laser software) but he was so busy answering also questions from other people he totally forgot. When we tore down the LEM he said: Let me pack my stuff and we'll sit in your hotel and i explain you all. We went across the street to the lobby of my Hotel and we sat down with a brew in the Lobby. At some point the clerk said Rob had to leave since it was already like 1.30AM or someting like that. And Rob still had to drive like 3 - 4 hours....


Memories of the Summer LEM organised by JEM:
Having a nice LEM but afterwards we had an excellent BBQ with a large group in Jem's beautiful garden. We had strawberries with merengues as dessert ! Lovely !


Memories of like 2 or 3 LEMs ago:
8. and me working in the kitchen on a laser (don't we Always....). I had an automatic punch tool. Jim was doing some precision work and i thought it was a good idea to mark the drilling hole by using the punch tool. BAM! And Jim flew up from his seat almost to the ceiling, after shouting some swearwords, then returned to normal voice and said:
Never do that again, you scared the shit out of me ;-)


And then the time (4 or 5 times ago) when the dude that wanted to visit us came walking (!!!) up to the Village Hall.
Local police drove by him asking where he was going (maybe thinking he was a traveller / hobo).
He said he was off to pay us a visit.
Then the old bill turned up asking us if we were expecting someone. Everybody was like, well eh... yeah there was someone saying he was coming but we don't know him. Not sure if he was coming etc... They drove away and after an hour or so this dude turned up.... The police could have taken him right ? Saved him an hours walk FFS.

Looking forward to your memories / fun facts / etc.

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Originally Posted by hobbybob

....My memories of the first UK LEM i attended (in Leicester):....

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Lugging my equipment up all those bloody stairs.
Sticking to the floor (spilt beer).
Realising that Leicester lives up (down?) to its reputation.
Being in at the start of "something". *retardo

This one i aint gonna miss *retardo

My Favourite to this day , EVER laser , rob you bringing it along ?
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Time guys to start reaching out to all the people who attended in past
and see if we can make this the BIGGEST ever meet !

Paul

Memories ....

Andy con saying " leicester " "its too far ", "i aint going"
Well done andy for never having missed a meet ? :)

The "Holiday inn" on top of car park in lecister , it was that bad we checked
out and drove 20 miles out to a travel lodge

realising that the pangolin T shirt i still wear occasionally is a
CRAZY ten years old !!!

Projecting out the stairs onto building across the way , i think it was a
flamingo ? first time i had seen a 1 watt green , and was the start of
chasing upgrades to get bright enough equipment to allow projecting
onto building , and the the fun i had for years doing so www.laserads.co.uk

meeting all the other fellow "laser geeks" and phew all that equipment
over the years , brilliant

Thanks h=guys , every one of you for all the memories , see you all soon :-)

This is how it started
http://photonlexicon.com/forums/show...ested-this-yet

and this is how it all finished , some great pics
http://photonlexicon.com/forums/show...ighlight=uklem


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^^^^ I want photoshopping into that picture please as I WAS there!!! ^^^^

Posting to follow as I'll be in the UK at that time

FREE pangolin shirts arranged
( see other thread to guarantee one )

Prize draw also of pangolin products for ATTENDEES only

So get booked in and come and join the fun

Remember and reach out and speak to all your lasery friends
and people you havent spoke to for a while , lets make sure
people are not disappointed as they did not know

*warn

Stick me on the list - will be good to see everyone after missing the last couple..... :)

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Originally Posted by dilbert

Stick me on the list - will be good to see everyone after missing the last couple..... :)

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Hey Dilbert,

good to see you want to make it man. We (i) missed you the last couple of LEMs.
You ok ?

Hi, is it possible to pay in advance by paypal ? the door fee ? if so please advise payment address

Paul

Just messaged you on FB Paul.

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Originally Posted by hobbybob

Hi Jim,

Then the old bill turned up asking us if we were expecting someone.

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Pretty sure a picture exists of one of the "50" standing in the hall with a beam on his back, sheer coincidence and trick of photography obviously. 🙄

Ok , Paid thanks jim

Jeex , Just 11 days to go ...........

Hi Guys

Ok, so I'd be keen to come along to this fine gathering of laser folk

My challenges are going to be:
1. Getting to there from London (I fly in on the 14th and still need to book any form of accommodation!) and getting around with a suitcase and backpacks. From a quick search it appears that it would only be a two and a half hour trip by two trains and a bus.
2. Accommodation, open to suggestions here, it appears that the travel lodge has availability but getting there and back is going to be a long walk

Open to any advice or suggestion as this will be my first time in the UK


Troy

Sending you a PM.

Jem, I'm guessing you've got this under yer belt??
Are you OK with talking to Troy about things?

Yep, i'm in contact with Troy by PM :)

Hey Jim

Yeah, Jem's been in touch and I've sorted accommodation

Even though I'll be a newcomer I'm happy to contribute to the hiring of the hall, so have sent you payment by PayPal

Troy

See you at the weekend!

See you all there! :)

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Great to see everyone again and meet a few new (to me) faces; had a great weekend and a lot of laughs. The linedancers on Friday really made the night in my opinion!
On the downside, I managed to leave some stuff behind - did anyone find a box of asstd heatshrink and some UV paints?

Yes Martin, I've got them.

Cheers Jim; could you post them to me and I'll PP you the cost of postage? No rush

Pleased to have finally been able to make it along to one of these events, even if it was only for the Saturday. Great to see the range of gadgets and hardware people had bought along, and to catch up with people, many of which were for the first time for me.

The 99p gas whitelight produced some remarkable beams, showing again that these beasts are worth the effort to get lasing.

Jem’s RGB lumia setup was memorising to watch, while seeing a wide range of HeNe’s and other lasers just working and producing stationary beams was interesting to see.

Glad I was able to stay for the curry, which was followed by a 6 minute, full-on, timecoded fireworks show in the carpark, which put most public shows to shame. No wonder the pyro guys had to spend the whole day wiring the show up.

Good to see the spirit that exists among those with a shared interest in these exotic light sources; it is easy to see why this LEM has reached its 10th year. Hopefully I can make it along to another one in the future, and fill my own table by bringing some of my own gadgetry to the meet :)

James

It was nice seeing you again James after all these years.
Think about what i said of organising a Laser safety class after the LEM.
I would be interested for sure.

Man, what a weekend, i really had to get to my senses at work today.
So many impressions of lasers, fireworks, fun with Andy, Laser engravers, words of wisdom of the "oldies" in laser land, curry and nice Lamb Shish ;-)
See you next time!

kind regards,
Dimitri

There was light and now its gone .... but it shall return ...............

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Where's all the pictures at lads!? :p

They're all over on the UKLEM Facebook Group Adam ;)