Recent content by aninchlow

I've done the exact same thing with a few variations. (1) leveled the ways both directions and bolted the lathe to the concrete (2) put a peice of ground 1" stock through the head and had the excess 2' sticking out over the bed. Using the spider and the 4 jaw I centered the bar with runout...

Thought we could start a list of places to buy metal in complete lengths. Not METAL SUPERMARKET which happens to be the biggest rippoff ever. Cheers,

Hello, My name is Josh. I'm a Calgary area guy. I'm not as active machining as I used to be. I spend time mostly building firearms when I am machining. I use other forums, but I was looking for aluminum scrap on kijiji and saw the add for this forum and thought, what the heck. I have a 14x48...