VincentHix
New Member
Boi, I guess I'm just tired of walking or paying Zimmy Johns (moto taxi's) to get around, and I need a new hobby.
I live and work aboard the world's largest charity hospital ship, the M/V Africa Mercy, where I have worked as an engineer for the past two years. We are currently in Lome, Togo and soon in Conakry, Guinea.
The ship provides free major medical surgeries, dental care, and eye care to some of the poorest people in the world, and they do so with an all-volunteer crew from over 30 countries.
I plan on building something simple to get me rolling, and then build something more complex as time goes on. I live on a shoestring buget, so it may take awhile, which is OK, it gives me more time to lurk through the threads and get some ideas and learn what not to do from everyone here, lol.
The shipping of kits and parts is going to be the killer. It takes about 3 weeks for snail mail and I pay about $16 a kilo for the postage. If I order something heavy I can have it sent for free in a cargo container, but that takes 8 weeks from the US or Holland.
Most of the China Girl kits look the same to me, but I'll need to figure out in posts to come about consumible spare parts to keep me going.
Glad to be here and I look forward to the good times to come !!
http://www.mercyships.org/index.php/pages/about-fleet
I live and work aboard the world's largest charity hospital ship, the M/V Africa Mercy, where I have worked as an engineer for the past two years. We are currently in Lome, Togo and soon in Conakry, Guinea.
The ship provides free major medical surgeries, dental care, and eye care to some of the poorest people in the world, and they do so with an all-volunteer crew from over 30 countries.
I plan on building something simple to get me rolling, and then build something more complex as time goes on. I live on a shoestring buget, so it may take awhile, which is OK, it gives me more time to lurk through the threads and get some ideas and learn what not to do from everyone here, lol.
The shipping of kits and parts is going to be the killer. It takes about 3 weeks for snail mail and I pay about $16 a kilo for the postage. If I order something heavy I can have it sent for free in a cargo container, but that takes 8 weeks from the US or Holland.
Most of the China Girl kits look the same to me, but I'll need to figure out in posts to come about consumible spare parts to keep me going.
Glad to be here and I look forward to the good times to come !!
http://www.mercyships.org/index.php/pages/about-fleet