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    Chevalier Milling Heads X 2, Vancouver BC

    https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/299033106572676/
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    Dickson quick change tool post, $160, Calgary, AB

    This looks like an S2 size kit for those with Colchester lathes. Too big for Bantam or Chipmaster, unless I'm mistaken.
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    Hendy 14x30 Lathe $1200 Delta BC

    Agree with DavidR8 here -- different seller and different location. Sold off parts; screwed up the electrics and can't be bothered to take their own pics of what it currently looks like. Not promising.
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    Atlas 618 $800 Saanich BC

    Cute! The variable speed drive assembly looks unusual. DC motor conversion perhaps?
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    Harrison m300 lathe (x2?) Victoria BC

    https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/5744356662356287/
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    10" rotary table Kamakura - $675 (Clayton)

    Very helpful. Thanks. I think someone else also observed this: there is a run of rotary tables being sold right now. Time to scratch that itch!
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    10" rotary table Kamakura - $675 (Clayton)

    Perhaps a stupid question, but when looking one of these over, what easy tests can be made for wear/usability? 1. backlash in the rotation pinion/gear? What is typical? 2. slop in the table, either up or down, or sideways? 3. rocking of the base when unbolted from the table? 4. Parallel test...
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    Something a little different. Lang Electrofeed 10x48, $7,500, Saanich BC

    https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/2285645271606013/
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    CA-BC Looking for 2x 4' lengths of rail road track

    In case you didn't find a more sensible supply, there's always this over on the mainland. FB Track Seller
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    Universal milling machine, $2500, Calgary, AB

    This looks like the kind of seller who will respond if asked about native power requirements, model number and such. With some luck a big inverter drive might power it, unless it is 7.5 hp or something. Some drives can also handle a range of output voltages but hitting 500-600v may rule out the...
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    Milling machine-mechanic’s special

    I'm the new owner of this Dah-Lih mill, for better or worse, if anyone is keeping track.
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    Sharp 12x37 Lathe $500 Langley

    This post reminds me of a question I've had from the past. We see a lot of `Sharp Industries' machines out west here. It seems there was a dealer in Vancouver? Then, there is the Sharp Lathes (Taiwan) you can read about on Tony's lathes.co.uk site and they seem like a completely different...
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    Other Vevor ultrasonic cleaners?

    Somewhere along the way I acquired a 22 litre Vevor-equivalent via M'place. I've got about 2 year's worth experience tinkering with it. It is big enough to take a Subaru head or similar engine parts. It does a decent enough job on those things -- equivalent to what I've seen from a machine...
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    Tree Journeyman 325 CNC Mill $1500 New West BC

    From dimensions in the ad, all of 8 feet tall and 5 x 7 footprint -- I would not have guessed that from the pictures.
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    Surface Grinder Victoria $950

    Yes, see it sitting almost out of the FOV in one of the pics.
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