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    Calgary & area meet up Spring 2024.

    Thanks to all that helped set the meet up! Food was great, meeting more of the members and talking great too. The sememairs were informative and thought out. Many thanks to RobinHood for hosting again in his shop! The machinery is always a drool over!
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    Lablond lathe in red deer for sale.

    No chucks pictured, has a face plate on it, 2chuck? Keys under face plate, extra tool post on saddle,quick change tool post on it, 2 tool holders for it. Don't see 4200 worth. Craig just posted, more listed then what's seen. Think its more then 1400lb.++.
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    Failed print blob mess help

    Not sure what extruder that is, if you can get the heating block assembly off/out of the extruder it will be easier. Anyway, use a soldering iron on the heating block to get it hot, use a wooden pencil, piece of small dia. wood, plastic scraper to carefully remove melted filiment, the tip of...
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    Tips/Techniques Cutting High Strength Steel Forging

    Well, some of that learnen been done! A little more to go. I am not sure what to tell you about the drilling. I have noticed when drilling stainless, that skipping the step drilling seems to work better, and sometimes the same for unknown steels. It seems that the wider the land/cutting edge...
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    Tips/Techniques Cutting High Strength Steel Forging

    Well this maybe relevant or not. When I was machining Ni-rod 55 welding material, it would round the edge of the insert, then a chip would be taken/knocked out/"removed from the edge, following this would often result in the shattering/ death of the insert. This was at speeds/feeds recommended...
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    Upgrade on lathe and mill.

    Don't get rid of the 618, a smaller lathe is always handy, as to a larger lathe, it is need, time, verses avaliblity,and new or used. You will likely never have a big enough lathe for every job. If you can do/handle 90 to 95 percent of the work that comes to the door you may have the rite...
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    JCDammeyer's 42 projects

    Sorry for your loss, my thoughts are with you.
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    ER40 collet chuck

    My idler gears are also pressed/fitting very tight on their hub. I tried turning the set around to see what difference it makes, however the larger gear would not clear the upper driving gear hub of the gear used when turning metric threads. However, my lathe is using the 127 tooth idler gear...
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    ER40 collet chuck

    It looks like I caused some confusion. The ratio between the spindle/chuck to the the gear "B", the top gear may not be 1 to 1, and the quick change box will not be a 1 to 1 ratio through it in most or all of the settings. What we want to see is the"B" gear turning 1 turn and the "D" gear...
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    MAZAK lathe, $6000, Coalhurst, AB

    There's a lota people running on treadmills, hook one to the lathe and offer free membership, just a crack of the whip mehearty's, arhh!
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    ER40 collet chuck

    Well, I am sure you are getting very frustrated by now with ideas that are not working. If you are game for another "idea/ a what the?, try to see the difference/ratio between the spindle and the lead screw. You may want to stop reading now! Anyway, start at the exposed gear end of the head...
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    Lathe Change gears

    Thought the meter was based on distance from earth to the moon. So are you also saying any measuring tools pre 1959 may not be any good? Eg. as in pre 1959 what was the centimetre to inch measure? It's all O.K. With the gear, every time it's counted will be different, so may good for 125 to...
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    ER40 collet chuck

    Possibly another way to check, with the 40,86,40 gears on,(for imperial threading.) Put the gear box thread selectors in B - 1 position for 8 threads, engage threading half shells, take slack out of gear train. Set indicator to measure carrage movement, mark the lathe chuck/spindle and a...
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    ER40 collet chuck

    Do you have the 40 tooth gear on the top shaft, driving the 86 tooth idler gear, the 86 tooth idler gear driving also another 40 tooth gear on the bottom shaft? This is from the page with figures 15,16,17 on it. Hope its the same manual you have. I noticed the manual pictures don't show the gear...
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    Stick Welding- what’s your favourite rod?

    The welding machine can make a big difference, a good welder can make a bigger difference, a very poor machine makes learning very hard. Knowing you have an AC machine and can get AC/DC rods of various flavours is also a difference. I have used 7018, 7024,7014,6013,6011,304,308L, and so on...
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