Recent content by Alawishes

In Lethbridge there is National Salvage metal recycling, which is great fun to cruise through. Maybe Saskatoon has a similar business.

I have several machines that weigh 3500# each so not interested in moving them once in position. I used my Autocad program to make a scale drawing of the shop and each machine. Mills were drawn with table at the 4 extreme positions. With space at a premium, when running a lathe and turning...

I have these, and they are great!

I put a Baldor DC motor and quality controller on my knee mill and it works just great. I installed a cheap chinese tach with pickup off the spindle pulley so I know what rpm it’s running at. I put an old treadmill DC motor on a bench drill press, along with cheap chinese rectifier and voltage...

Oops.... I should have been thanking DavidR8 :-(.

Thanks for helping me out Stuart.

Sold. Thanks for looking. Now to figure out how to remove the ad.....

Stanko mill sold locally. Buyer and I got it rolled to the door on lots of 1/2” pipe; now waiting for the timing on the loader and trailer to show up :-).

Greetings, a number of years ago I bought my first shop machine, a SB 10k but didn’t notice at the auction it was metric. I think it came from a Canadian school (plate had English and French on it) and was in pristine condition. I ended up buying an imperial quick change gearbox, leadscrew...

I tried the Stanley "super glue" in very small tubes (several in a clear plastic pill bottle type container) that I got at Home Hardware. I like the tiny tubes, as usually once the tube is open it tends to go downhill quite quickly. Where the outside of the plastic container had big cracks it...

I just glued the dividers in place — much better!

Pretty much the same as many others have said in the "many thanks" department. I was very happy for the idea, the immaculate shop, the seminars, free lunch and gifts, and a great opportunity to fraternize. It was nice to meet so many fellow hobby machinists (and some that seemed very...

The spindle head is graduated to 45 degrees in either direction. Spindle speed/direction change only done behind the table and table feed changes are only done from the front. Start/stop buttons for spindle and table are from the front or behind the table. Table handwheel controls are only from...

The guy I bought it from had a second one for sale; the big sister was well over this one’s 7000 lbs. More money with included DRO, but one look at the amp draw scared me off that one. It seems the standard story — changing over to CNC.

Stanko 6R12 vertical mill (russian knockoff of a great German design). 220v 3ph 35a. 10hp spindle drive 3hp table drive with feed and rapid return on all 3 axis. Can be run from the front or behind the table. It was pointed out to me when I bought it that it needed one table control switch...