Recent content by Dan Dubeau

Thanks Don. I had a Journeyman/supervisor beat that into me pretty early on too, and that's when that lightbulb really came on for me, and since then I always tried to learn as much as I could from whoever would teach me. Nobody can ever take that away from you. Honestly, up until that...

Then I'd have to find a free load of cheese to machine on it.

I can agree with that. Somewhat. Gets tiring sometimes when you need to work on something when you just want to use it though. Dad taught me how to fix stuff and figure it out though, and I owe him a debt of gratitude for that mentality (I cursed my kids with it already too). I wish he...

Cleaning up some projects that have been hanging around lately. I bought this material for it back in January, and got tired of moving it around so I decided to just finish it instead today. Pretty simple fabrication to start. I might add to it later, but for now, I just want to get my big...

Buckled down last week and finished another small patch, no pics, needed to hurry and remount it to cut the grass/hayfield.... Still have the one more patch in the middle to go, and a bit more fixing to the leveling wheels, but that'll have to wait for a bit. I have some other projects I want...

Nice job. That plasma table is a very handy thing to have for stuff like this. You went the opposite way that I want to. I have a Massey 35, and want to get a little Kubota :D.

Msg rec'd and sent.

Don't make me start dreaming again.

I would gladly give up my left nut to have that much shop space.

I just popped out into the garage while making dinner to demonstrate it. 3/8" copper tube, I flattened the end (not all the way), annealed it (red hot, then quench in water). A 3/8" open end wrench was then run around the end reforming it round. It's obviously a bit of a bodge, and you could...

A quick and dirty trick that might work for that line is to take a 3mm wrench, and run the open end around the outside to reform the line. If it's totally pinched down flat it's screwed, but if it's just dented a bit flat on the side it might reform round enough to restore flow. If it's...

Also called an Olive. I replace some oil lines on my Tormach, and got what I needed from Mcmaster. I'm sure there are local Canadian sources, especially in the GTA, but Mcmaster had one stop shopping from my couch at the time, and I payed the convenience tax. You're not supposed to reuse...

From what I was told, I am allowed to work non union as long as I'm not doing Millwright work. A bit of a grey area doing machining work, but considering I was a machinist before becoming union I was told that was OK. I mostly do design and CNC programming these days anyway, so I don't see the...

Looks great. You've given me some ideas as I want to do something similar behind my garage too. I'd never though about a crane before, but now I might look at trying to incorporate a Jib crane into one of the supports, so I can pick something outside, and swing it under the roof onto the...

Congrats @Rauce. Sorry, I thought I replied to this to say congrats way back when, but guess I forgot to hit send. Well Done! Well, an update. A bit of a long process, but I am officially through onboarding, health and safety training and on the list ready for work with Local 2309. #151 as...