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Recent content by Manfred

  1. Manfred

    So do I.

    So do I.
  2. Manfred

    who does this...

    @ Hacker How gracious of you to to attribute any thought or even process to the "operator". ;)
  3. Manfred

    CA-ON 1" plate GTA sourcing

    Looking for approx 12" x 24" x1" mild steel plate in the western GTA. Have searched the forums and not been able to find what I am looking for, Have quotes for $155.00 at Beech Road in Hamilton and $288 at my local Metal Supermarket - although in all fairness they will "sharpen their pencil"...
  4. Manfred

    DIY Mill Advice Sought

    Sorry, that should have been "mill" instead of "lathe". I have a functional EMCO Compact 5.
  5. Manfred

    DIY Mill Advice Sought

    As some of you may know, I'm (trying) to build my own lathe. Size is approximately the same as the LMS 6500 or the M1111 (roughly an SX2.7) I have the motors and most of the electronics as well as the LMS column and the M1111 table. will send photos and specs as a follow-up. What I am...
  6. Manfred

    parallels

    This might be relevant for a few of us living relatively close to each other - given how expensive shipping within and to Canada from the USA is (unless I am missing something): https://littlemachineshop.com/products/product_view.php?ProductID=1893&category=988300808
  7. Manfred

    parallels

    Another RPN fan here. Have a 41CV on my phone and a real 15C in my drawer.
  8. Manfred

    parallels

    Grew up in a metric world and find the metric system to be so much easier to work with. Most of my designs and pretty much all the imported stuff is metric. So if the parallels are 10mm (or 12 or 15) I just subtract that from whatever the dimension is that I am measuring on the machine and I...
  9. Manfred

    parallels

    I'm still pondering whether I should rather get a metric set but those are a lot more expensive.
  10. Manfred

    Greetings from Oakville

    My Emco came all the way from Florida - before shipping became so expensive. The Emco is still stock standard but the mill will be custom with the Z-axis column from an LMS5500 and the table from a M1111. X- and y-axis on 20mm rails. Still trying to figure out the z-axis. Cant decide whether to...
  11. Manfred

    Greetings from Oakville

    Refurbishing an EMCO Compact 5 lathe and building a CNC Mill from scratch while fixing up the basement and the deck. Happy to have stumbled on a Canadian Forum. Hoping to learn a lot and return the favour - as I get better at cutting metal.
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