Recent content by Chicken lights

I got it close enough for government work, but how would you lay that out? I could tape paper to the backside to try your two lines trick but I feel I'm missing something @Susquatch loves my drafting skills :D

How do you find the centre of a large hole? Don't even think about it I'm talking metal, trying to measure an old part, to lay out on the new part where to drill Then how do you get rid of the scruff around the hole? You guys talked me into a chamfer tool, but it's way too small. I just used...

Think that'll fit in a Canada post flat rate box?

One of my BC trips was a bridge section, three trucks, the sections were offloaded in a residential neighborhood. They had scaffolding setup, with landing spots for wheels? casters? I don't know the term, but they let the bridge section roll across to the next landing. They had no way to get...

A grinder was my complaint to the bolt store, their answer was the 3's. And it was a game changer on power, that and a skil saw, they're actually usable tools now. Before with the small batteries they were useless

Friend of mine said to try that little guy on 5/16" bolts, sure enough it works. The local bolt store told me to upgrade batteries to the 3.0 and boy what a difference. But you guys are all saying go to 5.0 or 6.0 batteries?

Great seller. Everything he has left seems to be genuine Starret, all in great shape. Bunch of Butterfield reamers as well

https://www.kijiji.ca/v-view-details.html?adId=1709310355 Starret tools, plus in other ads he has some morse taper tools, reamers and much much more

Can you explain why Canada buys logs from the USA? Veneer? Are the provinces not allowed to trade on certain things?

Thank you! That's very helpful!

this is obviously a joke when I say this- we don't want you dirty westerners over here any more than necessary :p (I get the same treatment when I go west, it's JUST a friendly poke)

if I'm in Ontario, I'll try to make it down

I'm probably the last generation to read a real newspaper or a book while having breakfast in a restaurant That is a gorgeous building

I didn't think it was quite that simple, but that's cool to hear your input on the premise. I'm skirting the politics rule here but his first term I said and will continue to say, you can't just snap your fingers and open a steel mill. Re-open or otherwise. Which echos your post There was...

I may have said this already but - I'm being told free trade agreement hurt Canadian economy because USA plants shut down and went home, because shipping was cheaper And yes, we truck a lot of raw steel and aluminum billets south