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  • 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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    Machines and accessories for sale

    The Rusnak vertical head is quite nice, but be aware the collets are an oddball- make sure you find all the ones that went with the machine as they are hard to find used.
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    Machines and accessories for sale

    It’s unfortunately common for kids to wind up selling their parents home shops. I’ve helped some locals and participated in sales in these circumstances. In fact the first tool I bought was from an elderly model engineering club member’s sale. I still recall Bert M and his kindness to a little...
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    3-ton Dake press $400 Victoria

    That’s a lot less expensive than I would have thought. Also suggests they sell enough of them due to breakage to have advantage of scale in manufacturing and keeping some on the shelf.
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    Bernerd D1-4 Collet Chuck

    IMO, the collets alone are worth what you are asking. You may want to state if that is a KC-15 set, or something else. Closers for different spindle types come up frequently. Probably just the angle of pic, but I cannot tell if you have the nose piece to draw in the collet?
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    Herbert Lathe & Camelback Drill $5000 Valemount BC

    But Valemont is a nice little town. Surprisingly good restaurant on the main drag. Remember it fondly as the place to drink ice cold somethings late in the evening, and put bags of ice on our knees having come down from near summit of Robson to road in a day. Knees haven’t been the same since.
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    Standard Modern 11" Series 2000

    Better for shipping. Or you could clamp a fixed steady on far end of bed.
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    Metal Bandsaw, $200, Trochu, AB

    The fertilizer is the most valuable item in that picture. Carolina bandsaws are absolute crap. Get a Hyd Mech or DoAll in that size. Or go down one size and get one of the ubiquitous Taiwan 7x12’s.
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    Pennsylvania A3 Switcher Errata

    Quinn, I don’t know where in B.C. you are located, but seeing your interest in steam and if anywhere near lower mainland, I’d suggest a trip to see Chris Hollands 1.5” scale 4-6-6-4 Challenger. I know he’s trying to sell it, but if a person times it right you may still be able to see his...
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    Machine Tools and Woodworking Tools, Brampton, ON

    Is the grinder a Deckel S1? I vaguely recall someone made a near copy- Alexander? Someone else?
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    Machine Tools and Woodworking Tools, Brampton, ON

    Mod, please delete my previous post. I made an error, and only discovered after time period for me to delete had expired.
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    Machine Tools and Woodworking Tools, Brampton, ON

    I saw two- a partly completed Stent on the ground, Don’t recognize the bigger one. Sorry.
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    Tips/Techniques Need help surface grinding a tapered cross slide gib (Okanagan)

    Ah, sorry, didn’t realize you’ve already been done that path. Nice work! Nothing sophisticated about what I did to the knee. Just a well placed hole so I can pull a strap clamp with spacers on each end for enough leverage into bottom of gib. Kinda hard to drill a hole into bottom of the knee...
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    Tips/Techniques Need help surface grinding a tapered cross slide gib (Okanagan)

    Bridgeport gibs are notorious for breaking, and as you found the vertical way can get jammed if you try to push the knee instead of the gib. An option is to flip the mill upside down and drill access thru base for a brass drift to push the vertical gib up. (Thanks to Forrest Addy for that tip)...
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    Tips/Techniques Need help surface grinding a tapered cross slide gib (Okanagan)

    Fwiw, I enjoyed the post.
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    Deckel FP1 2500$ loaded , Cornwall ON

    Hate to be negative, but this mill says tread carefully to me. Early first generation machine. Might even be pre war. No motor on the cast iron plinth at the base. Why? Without, how do you plan to test the horizontal spindle? And the gear box. Where are the tables? Why is it using a high speed...
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