• 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!

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    Mill $4000 North Saanich, BC

    This is the most completely tooled mill I've ever seen for sale. All I know about it is what's in the ad. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/733205879137557
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    Myford - Surrey BC "Offer me fair I'll take it"

    https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1014280560793078
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    Mini Metal Lathe $600 Cowichan Valley BC

    https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1037035571660908/ "Open to offers" Map suggests it's on the Malahat Maybe not a deal, but unusual. Anyone know what this is? Seen one before?
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    2 ton arbor press CA$60 North Cowichan BC

    Looks like the one KMS has on sale now for $180.00. Been listed for a couple of weeks now. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/696414939526502/
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    Weekly community thrift haul thread

    My brother worked at a pawn shop many years ago. Apparently their markup is just what you would expect from a business model that is basically predatory - they pay out pennies and then put prices on things that are as close to new as they think they can get away with. This does imply that in...
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    A near miss and big consequences

    Um, don't you mean "last and only symptom"? ;) Seriously though - good luck and take care of yourself. It's better to be over cautious at risk of appearing to be a hypochondriac than "oh, it'll get better by itself" but then it goes the other way and beyond easy or even any recovery.
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    Solitary Bee House

    There are mixed opinions about cleaning your bee houses yearly. Commercially made mason bee houses often have cardboard tube liners that can be discarded and replaced after the new bees have emerged. Some people do disinfect houses made using solid unlined tubes, but you definitely want to do...
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    Pantograph for Sale

    OK, gotta ask. What does that plaque say in the 3rd from the last photo? "And oil this machine you are too good f..."
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    Headstock Bearing Races

    No harm in trying dry ice, but the temperature differential between that and room temp might not be enough to do it, depending on how tight the press fit is. The "put a bead of weld on it" technique seems to be tried and true, and since you won't be re-using the old ones there's no risk either...
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    2021 Modern universal milling machine X6323A, Auction, canadawestauctions.ca

    2021?! That's practically factory fresh compared to most of what comes up.
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    New to me Ammco 7" Metal shaper

    Looks Great! Annnd... The reverse stroke definitely looks faster than the forward stroke!
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    Tool Alligator clips for Fluke 77iii

    The Fluke does not show this. Does that imply that the Fluke is less sensitive? There were no leads attached (which could act as antennas). None of my admittedly cheap meters do this. The best being a 1980's vintage B&K Precision. Swamped by the input under test? Presumes that what is being...
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    Tool Alligator clips for Fluke 77iii

    The first thing I notice in the first several minutes of the video is that the Brymen without even leads connected shows > 0 . And it wobbles. Mind you, I have cheap multimeters, and they are "good enough" for what I do, but... gotta wonder. Now I'll go watch the rest of the video.
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    Tool Alligator clips for Fluke 77iii

    There are a lot of things Queale/Interior may not have, but they have been the best (only?) local-ish place I have found for shrink wrap tubing other than in pre-cut short pieces.
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    Ancient Myford Lathe - South Shore NS - $100

    Gone already? Or bad link?
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