• 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 Ontario GTA West area meetup is planned for Saturday April 26th at Greasemonkeys shop in Aylmer Ontario. If you are interested and haven’t signed up yet, click 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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    FREE: VFD 4.0KW 220 SINGLE PH INPUT -> 220 3 PH OUTPUT...there is a catch though

    Randy, DM me your address, I'll get a freight quote from work.
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    FREE: VFD 4.0KW 220 SINGLE PH INPUT -> 220 3 PH OUTPUT...there is a catch though

    Pics will be added once I get home (posting this from work) Reason for the smoking deal?? It simply stopped working. It would click, turn the motor over a 1/4 turn and then stop. I tried to do a reset, and that didn't help. I'm not handy with electrical diagnosis in the slightest. It might...
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    Shoulder check

    In the Okanagan, drivers don't signal, they cut you off instead. yearly, we see at least a dozen MC related accidents, at least a third end as a fatality. We also have our share of "new to Canada" drivers... One instance of literal Merge Rage...I was waiting for traffic to clear a good enough...
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    Milling Machine - US Machine Tool Co, $1500, Winnipeg, MB

    Interesting...the original ad is gone, but now it looks like the same machine in another listing, only cheaper... https://www.kijiji.ca/v-power-tool/winnipeg/us-machine-tool-co-horizontal-milling-machine/1716374961
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    Homemade Magnetic Mini Tool Rest to turn Wood or Soft Metal

    Nice execution of a solved problem
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    Crawford Lathe's 4 spd drive box woes...

    Old, double sided seal with # that no longer correlates to anything. Pretty decent quality to last at least 60 yrs... Bearings aren't loud, there's no end play or radial movement in the shaft New CR seal and a CAT oring to seal it back up. There is a groove under the oring for it to nest into...
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    A near miss and big consequences

    they say complacency kills...And I don't mean that as a barb...I'm bad for assuming...oh it's just a pain...I'm fine... I'm just glad you listened to the ladies and got your butt into the emerg... In my 20's, I thought I had a very bad flu...turned out my appendix was on it's way to...
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    coquitlam BC newbie

    welcome from Kelowna BC...the smaller Hollywood North :P
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    Crawford Lathe's 4 spd drive box woes...

    I pulled it apart yesterday. All the measures a parts guy (me) could need recorded. Upon inspection, my assumption is it's simply a matter of the unit's age. Shaft is clean, no pits or large grooves...one minor groove to speak of...but it more or less buffed out with a little emery cloth. The...
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    Crawford Lathe's 4 spd drive box woes...

    So I was turning a piece of stock for yet another project, and noticed that the Dominion Auto-Drive that the lathe is equipped with, has started to weep oil. My first assumption is its coming from one of the shaft seals. Has anyone ever worked on one of these gear boxes? Or made attempts to...
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    Hello from Saskatoon

    welcome from Kelowna BC
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    iPhone to Android - phone recommendations?

    The sad part is, if Apple cared enough to educate their customers on data maintenance, the users wouldn't end up with multiple copies of their files in the cloud, or having their storage max out after a month... Hell...even Android/Google are downright shifty... I go into Google's photo's app in...
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    iPhone to Android - phone recommendations?

    Tom...if only it were that simple... Battery life isn't much of an issue to me...I don't text as much as I once did or watch enough video or edit enough video to warrant concern.. While I appreciate the candor in your suggestion of a new battery...it's where said "present" will end up should I...
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    iPhone to Android - phone recommendations?

    As someone who mistakenly got on the iphone path...I can attest to the frustrations of phones... I gave up on Apple's stuff when I got my current 'droid...it's a Samsung S20 FE...it does what I need it to do... When I got it, I purposely set the charge rate to 85% of maximum. I think this thing...
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    Shaper $375.00

    judging by the oil jug behind it...this is NOT a workbench model...it must weigh over a 1000 lbs no?
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