• Spring 2024 meetup in Calgary - date Saturday, April 20/2024. discussion Please RSVP Here to confirm and get your invitation and the location details. RSVP NOW so organizers can plan to get sufficient food etc. It's Tomorrow Saturday! you can still RSVP until I stop checking my phone tomorrow More info and agenda
  • We are having email/registration problems again. Diagnosis is underway. New users sorry if you are having trouble getting registered. We are exploring different options to get registered. Contact the forum via another member or on facebook if you're stuck. Update -> we think it is fixed. Let us know if not.
  • Spring meet up in Ontario, April 6/2024. NEW LOCATION See Post #31 Discussion AND THE NEW LOCATION

Recent content by Chicken lights

  1. Chicken lights

    Time for some fun

    I can clearly remember road trips to NS and PEI with no seat belts, no car seats, just a mattress in the back if kids needed a nap Waving to strangers was normal There's still a bunch of us old school Canadians left here....I personally have reserved parking at @historicalarms and @Susquatch...
  2. Chicken lights

    Time for some fun

    You're really old How was the tin can on a string phone call?
  3. Chicken lights

    Time for some fun

    That's politically incorrect and I demand an apology for you hurting my feelings You Neanderthal
  4. Chicken lights

    10 little things we hate about the internet.

  5. Chicken lights

    Show us your pups

    She's very quiet and gentle. The bookkeeper scares me more than the dog does
  6. Chicken lights

    Big Box o' Air Tools - All or Nothing (SOLD AS OF April 21)

    74 Ave SE
  7. Chicken lights

    Big Box o' Air Tools - All or Nothing (SOLD AS OF April 21)

    I was in Calgary 2-3 weeks ago, it was a fairly short visit. Some genius put a set of train tracks intersecting a dead end street doing shunts. I have no immediate plans to go back there, but I think @CalgaryPT thats your next mission, move the train tracks out of town Good to see you around
  8. Chicken lights

    Stuart’s big dumb lathe

    Older books can't be censored or rewritten no politics
  9. Chicken lights

    Show us your pups

    My bookkeepers dog, Ellie. Swears she is a savage and threatens to send her after me to pay the bill So I got her a collar and tag that had her phone number with "accounts receivable" stamped on it :D
  10. Chicken lights

    Tips/Techniques Cutting High Strength Steel Forging

    good luck again, no politics, but when the country of manufacture has no recourse for providing a poor product / that doesn't meet domestic quality control/certs/liability, it's hard for domestic companies to compete I think that's about as far as we can take this, forum wise, but it was...
  11. Chicken lights

    Tips/Techniques Cutting High Strength Steel Forging

    True, I guess I forgot a minute we delved into test reports and certs, if an offshore company gives a cert, it's very different from a domestic company giving a cert Again, no politics, the discussion arose around steel quality compared to country of origin, and how other countries can fudge...
  12. Chicken lights

    Stuart’s big dumb lathe

    Yep, I'm not a huge "safety" person per se, but watched a 2000 pound piece of glass get smashed because of poor rigging and the safety latch not able to close properly around the rigging
  13. Chicken lights

    Tips/Techniques Cutting High Strength Steel Forging

    This will seem like it's out of left field but this forum should be used to that by now :D A very little bit of research turned up forged snap binders will generally bend, under abusive drivers. Cast, on the other hand, will simply break @Susquatch holds the opinion that...offshore....forged...
  14. Chicken lights

    Shop Shop air line systems

    It's 2024 now, it's ok to use brown bread, c'mon
  15. Chicken lights

    Shop Shop air line systems

    I went compressor to rubber hose to 20' copper, then air/water seperator, then black pipe, back to rubber to go up the wall, then black pipe main the length of the wall. All 3/4" with 1/2" drops, and minimal pipe threading/cutting. I run 1/2" rubber air line after the drops with the larger P...
See more
Top