Recent content by mechaform

Hear! Hear! Well said. I must remember to celebrate the victories, however small.

This engine looks like a great little project. Sunday's meetup was a treat; weather was perfect. Lots of interesting projects to examine. Caught up with some old friends and made some new acquaintances. Looking forward to the monthly meetings. Chris

I think we all have a project list that is bigger than the free time available. I am frustrated by the poor utilisation of my "idle hours" but I remain at a loss as to how to improve my habits.

After many years of making a few parts, losing the plans & parts, finding them again, moving house, making some more parts, losing them again, and re-finding them, I finally have a working engine. It's Rudy Kouhoupt's single cylinder, single acting, spool valve design from raw stock. This...

I would only be able to make it to one or the other event. Will have to see which as the days draw nearer.

Near Milton. Would love a Bridgeport or similar knee-mill for larger projects but I’d need more time & space to make it worthwhile. Keep looking to see if Ford Machinery has any small stuff but they can’t be bothered to reply to inquiries.

Sorry to see the aftermath but the important part is that you suffered no injuries. Any hope of salvage/repair?

Sherline Part # 2090 I've got a 2.5" 3-jaw chuck on the way for use on my Peerless, but I need the adaptor to WW spindle adaptor to be able to mount it. I know it'll be a rare bird, but I have to ask if there's one in the Canadian wild.

Good to know that Yuriy is active on other forums. Lots of info to process (today has been super hectic). From the Igaging site (they no longer offer the Easy-View model) 6" Absolute $65 USD + 12" Absolute $92 USD + shipping, customs = $89 + $126 = $215 CAD + ~$50 Touch DRO (Igaging model) $99...

I took a look at Yuriy's DRO site; an interesting possibility. My immediate concerns are that there have been no updates to the Blog since June of last year, and there's not much activity on the Forum. The V3 TouchDRO app has been in Beta since last May 2-4, but I cannot access the Google Group...

Thanks for the great feedback. The reasons I would want a DRO on a mill would be for functions like bolt circles, halving to find centre, direct entry of measured values, and X by X hole patterns. As I understand it, the I-gaging style readout modules do not interact with one another, so these...

Hobby machinists span the gamut. Making fabrication & inspection jigs and fixtures is an underrated part of working with machine tools. I have thought about buying a DRO for the Taig mill, but the short travel on the X and Y axes makes it difficult to determine which scales would be best...

I used to go to McKinnon Metals a decade ago, but they have long since moved up to Woodbridge. I had not thought to go to recyclers as most seem to be geared to commerical clients.

Thought I should post something in here to give a sense of what I get up to. I've been wanting to turn some small wooden parts on my Taig metal lathe; handles, marking tool bodies, etc. Taig makes some accessories for wood turning, but I don't like them. The spur centre started as 3/4" ATF...

Yes, that's the town. The hardware store was targetted by thieves twice in one month; they stole over $50k worth of tools. Hope they caught the buggers. Anna Mae's puts together a heck of a meal.