• Scam Alert. Members are reminded to NOT send money to buy anything. Don't buy things remote and have it shipped - go get it yourself, pay in person, and take your equipment with you. Scammers have burned people on this forum. Urgency, secrecy, excuses, selling for friend, newish members, FUD, are RED FLAGS. A video conference call is not adequate assurance. Face to face interactions are required. Please report suspicions to the forum admins. Stay Safe - anyone can get scammed.
  • Several Regions have held meetups already, but others are being planned or are evaluating the interest. The Calgary Area Meetup is set for Saturday July 12th at 10am. The signup thread is here! Arbutus has also explored interest in a Fraser Valley meetup but it seems members either missed his thread or had other plans. Let him know if you are interested in a meetup later in the year by posting here! Slowpoke is trying to pull together an Ottawa area meetup later this summer. No date has been selected yet, so let him know if you are interested here! We are not aware of any other meetups being planned this year. If you are interested in doing something in your area, let everyone know and make it happen! Meetups are a great way to make new machining friends and get hands on help in your area. Don’t be shy, sign up and come, or plan your own meetup!

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    The Great Ontario Foundry Road Trip, 2025

    Ye that's the stuff I'll be trying to track down, and I did borrow the idea from luckygen1001 aswell as I've watched few of his videos Unfortunately I'm in BC so probably won't be going threw Ontario anytime soon but I appreciate the offer. I live near a dump that allows scavenging so finding...
  2. J

    Humpback Straight Edges for scraping

    Wish more scrapping stuff came up for sale in western Canada I've seen couple camelbacks come up in auction in Edmonton but that's been about it for reference tools. Got to touch a 36" straight edge once while helping a lady organize/reassemble some machines her husband started to restore. but...
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    The Great Ontario Foundry Road Trip, 2025

    Currently building my self a sand muller almost done been poking at it when I get a hour here or there. Once it's done im gonna call a couple well drilling companies see if I can buy a bag of clay off one of them. Just have the mixing paddles left to build/install and maybe a spring for roller...
  4. J

    New Idler Motor

    5hp should start up around 3hp with light load maybe more with no load. Me and my buddy made one to run my milling machine it's 5hp 550v pretty easy things to build basically just motor strapped too transformer. Used a 7.5hp motor and 10kva transformer and it can start the mill on lowest rpm...
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    Auctions are weird.

    Well maybe but I think you can just make new account under different name it's not like they need I'd just need a credit card so if you got a few of those your fine lol. I would like to think that behavior isn't tolerated but I guess the auction company also doesn't care what happens after The...
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    Auctions are weird.

    Which has its ups and downs as now I can go to auctions while I'm at work but also opens the doors for more shady practices and ghost bidding. One auction I went to a guy bought bunch of the lots and tried selling the stuff he bought while still in the building being auctioned. He was located 5...
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    Auctions are weird.

    I don't know what it is with auctions but man people love to over pay for stuff. Was watching a starrett 199 level in Edmonton and these things sell on eBay for around 500$-600$ shipped. Sold for 725$ plus 20% so around 870$ all I can think is someone really wanted this one I guess or the...
  8. J

    Tips/Techniques For sale

    Are they collet style tappers? Do they auto reverse? What Morse taper they are?
  9. J

    Lathe stuff and removable ways

    Ye sure was, thank you for sending me that. now I just got to find a D1-6 adapter for chuck after I clean it up.
  10. J

    Lathe stuff and removable ways

    I went to go buy a rusty chuck and ended up hauling back bunch of lathe stuff including bunch of removable way segments. Which I thought was neat and possibly usefully for printing inverted ways on stuff like surface grinder so I grabbed them all. Also got a big boy if a steady rest looks like...
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    Vancouver - Fraser Valley meetup

    I would be interested in doing a meet if something comes about and if my schedule allows. I'll also be in Vancouver area next month for some bridge repair work.
  12. J

    Iron Casting

    MK wasn't sure if if you were spraying me and my buddy are screwing around with an old oil furnace pump melting stuff nothing came out great yet still lots to learn. End goal being iron but I think we need to resign what we got lol. Pretty simple to build a heat treat oven basically PID and...
  13. J

    Iron Casting

    Just curious about nozzle size of your burner also were did you get your ferrosilcon. Looks like you got good results almost no white and I would be curious to see how much porosity is in your cast iron if it would be any good for machining.
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    How to Clean a Granite Surface Plate?

    In Edward Connelly's book he talks about checking a surface plate with a camelback. If you happen to have one you could possibly check your plate using his method. I've seen mention on PM there was ways of checking plates with master levels and piano wire but couldn't find any detailed methods...
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    How to Clean a Granite Surface Plate?

    I've been using isopropyl alcohol for a quick wipe and I used Windex to clean blueing off
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