Chris’s job involves designing electrical gear for power-network companies. Most of New Zealand’s electricity generating companies purchase gear from the company for which he works. In his spare time, he makes stuff in his very well equipped workshop. He has a lathe and a large milling machine, a gas set, and a homemade tube bender.
Chris says that his projects tend to come together easily. Components turn up at opportune times; things tend to fit together without a lot of modifications.
He used to campaign a MotoGP racing motorcycle very successfully, his bike competing in the 1999 Australian 125GP, before realising that he was no longer prepared to risk the lives of the riders he employed to ride these powerful machines. These days, the cars and bikes he works on travel a little more slowly. For example, his
