• 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!

Recent content by mickeyf

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    Estate sale Victoria

    Drat! I happened to be in Victoria today, but am back home now. Probably just as well!
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    The Faller Came Early

    Recently had to have a couple of trees down but there really was nowhere to drop them without clobbering something - fence, apple trees, neighbor's or our house... Guy climbed up and lowered chunks from the top working their way downward. All very tidy, professional and relatively quick.
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    How to Clean a Granite Surface Plate?

    Wait - what? You're going to clean it off first and then put sediment on it?
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    History (ww2)

    I read a lot, and 95% of what I read is history. But not WWII in particular. The wars understandably get a lot written about them, but there is a lot more to History than just the wars.
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    Lathe and Mill on BC auction - at Uvic

    Mill has less than 24 hours left, "reserve not met" @ $5500. If I had room and didn't already have a mill (not nearly as nice as that!) I'd take a crack at it.
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    12-11-10-9-8 just for fun

    I don't do this stuff, but .... I'm pretty sure my electric car can get up to those speeds much faster. There's a story somewhere about a lady (in Arizona?) with a Nissan Leaf that puts the hot-rodders and electric skeptics to shame regularly.
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    Herbert Lathe & Camelback Drill $5000 Valemount BC

    Looks like they just got moved out of the barn for the photo shoot. I hope they find a new home before either the fire or the rainy season.
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    Opinion needed about heavy cast iron junk (use to be surface grinder)

    Unlike many, I like the way cast iron machines. I have some chunks saved from old machines and from time to time make something from them. I wouldn't dream of getting rid of them.
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    Jacobs Super Chuck or clone?

    Does no one bu me find it a bit ironic that so many "keyless" chucks come with a wrench or some sort, or provisions (holes) for one? Personally I have never been happy with them, but in fairness I have only used those on consumer quality hand held drills, never the fancy name brand models.
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    Atlas Horizontal Mill, $450, Kanata, ON

    Looks like it's missing the power x feed.
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    Scope level

    And here I thought you were going to show us how you used it to level your lathe... ;)
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    Arboga EM825 milling machine CA$900, Delta BC

    https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1421345695693847/
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    Large Huot Drill set

    Biggest drill chuck I have is 3/4". Usually when the drills get that large they have MT (or the cheaper ones, reduced) shanks?
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    What's Paul up to?

    Wow. Have to put that on the "If I ever get back to Paris" list!
  15. mickeyf

    Shop it seems simple, but I need help........ Hammer organization

    Yup, me too. have maybe 5 or 6 that get regular use. But somehow tools accumulate. These are the ones packed away in a tool box (A few non-hammers made their way into this old photo):
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