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    Ontario meetup, April 6

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

    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.
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    First lathe crash

    Sorry to see the aftermath but the important part is that you suffered no injuries. Any hope of salvage/repair?
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    WTB - Sherline 8mm WW->3/4"-16 thread adaptor

    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.
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    latest work

    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...
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    latest work

    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...
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    latest work

    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...
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    latest work

    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...
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    New from Ontariariario

    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.
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    latest work

    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...
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    New from Ontariariario

    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.
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    New from Ontariariario

    Thanks for the offer! KBC, Canadian Bearings, and Metal Supermarkets are a reasonable divergence from my daily commute, so I try to order ahead and pickup during the week. I’ve laid in a decent amount of raw material over the last few months, but I am always short of something nonetheless. I...
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    Good morning

    Hi! Went to HS for a while in Barrie. I miss that city.
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    New from Ontariariario

    Online I’ve had to be either painstakingly exact or extremely vague about where I’m at. Not for privacy reasons, but because thems-from-away aren’t familiar with our idiosyncratic way of treating distances or placenames.I can’t assume that non-Canucks will even recognise “GTA”. Toronto they get...
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    dreaming in Technicolour, living in black & white.

    dreaming in Technicolour, living in black & white.
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