• 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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    Here's a Tombstone any of our spouses would use when we go...

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    Terrible QC - Toilet Edition

    Yup, that was us. Toilet tanks are two pieces of pottery, glued together with thick grout (slip). Fired at low temp to cure the grout. Smooth off any divots and rough bits, then glaze and finish fire the glaze. Plant is closing? Cool, we’ll speed up production by not using the slip and we’ll...
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    Terrible QC - Toilet Edition

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    New Member in Tottenham!

    Welcome from Vancouver!
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    3-ton Dake press $400 Victoria

    Luddite again. As you say, it's five teeth. By the time you make a d-bit, and figure out how to set up to cut this in a mill, or buy and renovate a shaper (even at the speed David works), it's still going to take longer than using a file. Make a brass tooth template, cut out the centre slot...
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    RF40? Mill Drill $800 Delta BC

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    Herbert Lathe & Camelback Drill $5000 Valemount BC

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    Herbert Lathe & Camelback Drill $5000 Valemount BC

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    Weiss VM32 CNC Conversion

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    Really ?

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    New tracking at Amazon

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    Really ?

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    New member from Saskatchewan.

    Welcome from Vancouver! stuff that makes an RF-30 more fun: DRO, Vevor power feed, 2HP 240V 3-phase motor with VFD, replace the head lift hand crank with a nice big hand wheel, remove the annoying metal belt guard and replace it with a plexiglass shield, lots of tooling. we're all here more...
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    One less John on the Forum

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    Need some Lathe Work

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