• 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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    What size lathe do you have?

    CX708/B2227L is the same as the BVB25 sold by a zillion Chinese suppliers. Realistic weight is 150 kgs, see https://ia601004.us.archive.org/34/items/lathe-manuals/BV20-%20BVB25%20manuel.pdf for a weight chart for the various versions. Busy Bee customer service is abysmal. Don’t expect a...
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    Hamai 3VS CNC Milling Machine $850 Burnaby BC

    Too big to fit in my garage. Damn. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/2140629479706666/?
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    DavidR8's shop shenanigans

    Shouldn't be all that tricky. A couple of studs into the cross slide, washers and wing nuts. The critical detail is that the scale is parallel to movement of the cross slide, and that could be as simple as a nice steel template to check alignment between the scale and the slide. Adjust both ends...
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    Can you drill a magnet?

    JB Weld works well, and Lepage PL600 landscape adhesive or regular PL polyurethane adhesive work great. Only snag is the PL adhesive takes a long time to cure.
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    Shoulder check

    Third most popular car is a Toyota Corolla, labelled as a driving school vehicle, on its way to the Motor Vehicle Branch, where the student driver will bribe the driving inspector.
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    Speed/RPM/SFM Slide Rule

    First attempt at engraving. Maybe 90% successful, it's done on a scrap of 30ga 0.012" aluminum flashing that I had on hand. Layout is good and it's legible, but 30ga is too thin and flexes away from the cutter, so depth of cut isn't consistent. If you look at the lower left-hand corner my 0.004"...
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    Shoulder check

    Shoulder check in a parcel van? Not possible. I was taught to drive as if everyone else on the road is trying to kill me. And to adjust the mirrors to get the widest possible view of the road beside me, as @slow-poke describes. And I drive in Richmond BC, >50% of the drivers near me didn’t...
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    Colchester Triumph 2000 Lathe $2500 Burnaby BC

    START THE CAR!!! https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/886891803580168/?
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    3D printed circuit board!?!

    Explain to my very old brain. For one-off boards, like the stuff I make, how can this possibly be faster or easier than a perf board, some extended-pin sockets, a spool of 32ga wire, and a wire wrap tool? Full disclosure, I have a 2.5d CNC circuit board maker that I got for free because the...
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    Speed/RPM/SFM Slide Rule

    Did some more layout work. Here's a link to the DXF file for this version: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/0ey1fjva75ektylsed28t/Log-scales-d-5-3-2025.dxf?rlkey=fcevp47e9kgeod1cwlgsfo38m&st=8by2mo93&dl=0 The top rectangle is the slider, the bottom is the frame. The rectangle below the arrow...
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    Weekly community thrift haul thread

    Police get a list, and promptly file it in the oval file. My son David plays drums in a band. One birthday I bought him a good set of digital drums and an oddball Roland amp specifically designed for drums. Six months later his house is broken into and the amp is stolen. Police report is...
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    Speed/RPM/SFM Slide Rule

    Saw this Feed and Speed slide rule and decided I want to make one. Probably will be engraved aluminum sheet. I haven't worked out the details yet but I've cobbled up the scales. The beauty of a slide rule is it always works, never needs recharging, and can provide an answer starting from any two...
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    Generic 12x36 Lathe $1000 Abbotsford BC

    https://www.facebook.com/share/199Qp3Eicr/
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    3 sided precision straight edge

    SWMBO went to a Catholic private school when she was a kid. I suspect if a nun smacked your knuckles with that ruler you’d never step out of line again.
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    A near miss and big consequences

    Sigh. Hoist with my own petard.
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