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    Possible candidate for 3-phase for my lathe?

    maybe 1hp is ok if your belt / drive situation is not perfect - I cut my teeth on a Tida branded lathe that looks just like your busy bee and that thing would slip the belt at any opportunity so motor power was more or less irrelevant... do you find that you bog the motor on your machine or...
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    Machine Video of a healthy (?) Kopp variator

    I've got a Kopp variator in my Holbrook Minor that has given me a bit of grief lately... long story long, I bought the lathe in mystery condition and used it for 4 years with no issues with the variator other than it being pretty loud above 2000 rpm. then earlier this year I decided to finally...
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    Grinder tool and cutter, kbc, 115 volt, 5C collet, air spindle, $2150, Colborne, ON

    oh lmao this was at an auction we bought stuff at, it went for something stupid cheap like 250$... we got a shelf of stuff that had some of the accessories for it and brought them back, kinda regret that now that it's being flipped lol heres a link to the auction page if you wanna see the...
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    Tool spotting blue for scraping?

    oh that's an idea eh. I do have some diamond discs from aliexpress that I could mount up, I just don't have a 6" round of anything here at the moment I,ve seen people make slow speed grinders using car window motors; I did consider that but it was much easier to convert this bench grinder ...
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    Tool spotting blue for scraping?

    oh yeah, forgot to ask - any suggestions on where to get cast iron (dura bar?) ? I'm in the toronto/hamilton area
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    Tool spotting blue for scraping?

    thanks for the pointer, I'll have to try a lap - the scraping marks I am making are kinda scratchy looking and I want to try to improve that... though maybe material is part of the issue? some of the scraping I've seen results in a mirror-like surface (through the scraping marks) but I suppose...
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    Tool spotting blue for scraping?

    nope, but it is reversible so you can loosen both wheels by accident and wonder what the rattling noise is is slow speed of much benefit? I see that some people make slow speed grinders but others say it doesn't matter for carbide
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    Tool spotting blue for scraping?

    update on this for like the like 1 person who might be interested: ended up getting dykem off the jungle website and it's definitely better than the stuff I was using - I can get better resolution. also cobbled together a carbide grinder with a slovenian made bench grinder I got for 40$ at...
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    Maho milling machine, $3000, Wellington North, ON

    funny, this machine was for sale previously in Dec 2024 for 4k$, from the screengrabs I have it looks like the same machine but not in the exact same place (but maybe the same room?) I'm guessing it's got an adapter for Deckel 20mm collets ("U2" or "355e") - the manual states the spindle taper...
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    fixing a folding shovel the wrong way (making a hirth joint)

    or do like any sane person and make some sort of cnc router haha Good eye - my mill is a 1955(?) deckel FP1. I got it in 2020 from the estate of a guy who had worked at E. Leitz Canada (now raytheon elcan) for something like 50 years, which is super cool since I use/fix/modify Leica cameras...
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    fixing a folding shovel the wrong way (making a hirth joint)

    for what it's worth, I bought both of mine (GVWU + GVW150) for 700$, which I think was a fair ish price. pantograph machines are virtually useless and basically worth scrap, and these are even more niche than pantos... if you wanna buy one the real difficult thing is finding one in Canada. I...
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    fixing a folding shovel the wrong way (making a hirth joint)

    basically it turns one of the linear axes of the panto arm into a roll axis, fixed below the engraving spindle. so like transforming X-Y into cylindrical coordinates (X - θ ) if that's any easier to understand. here's a little timelapse video from a couple months ago, maybe seeing it in action...
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    fixing a folding shovel the wrong way (making a hirth joint)

    yeah one of the many ironies here is that the shovel is actually worse than it was new because it's even shorter now (= even more back strain) I did sort of make drawings but not real ones - just something messy to know what to machine. engraved with a roll engraving attachment (for engraving...
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    fixing a folding shovel the wrong way (making a hirth joint)

    I haven't lived in toronto for long but this past winter was the first time where it snowed enough that I had to actually buy a snow shovel. princess auto had what I needed - something small with a plastic hinge so it could be stowed in a car more easily. Made in canada too - how bad could it...
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    Deckel FP1 1200$CAD near Montreal

    50s FP1 with I think plain bearings in both horiz and vertical spindle looks like a 120v motor retrofit comes with slotting head which is pretty sweet, overarms for both horiz spindle and dividing head (which isn't pictured, the dividing head in the pictures is not the oem one)
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