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Sorry to see the aftermath but the important part is that you suffered no injuries. Any hope of salvage/repair?

Sherline Part # 2090 I've got a 2.5" 3-jaw chuck on the way for use on my Peerless, but I need the adaptor to WW spindle adaptor to be able to mount it. I know it'll be a rare bird, but I have to ask if there's one in the Canadian wild.

Good to know that Yuriy is active on other forums. Lots of info to process (today has been super hectic). From the Igaging site (they no longer offer the Easy-View model) 6" Absolute $65 USD + 12" Absolute $92 USD + shipping, customs = $89 + $126 = $215 CAD + ~$50 Touch DRO (Igaging model) $99...

I took a look at Yuriy's DRO site; an interesting possibility. My immediate concerns are that there have been no updates to the Blog since June of last year, and there's not much activity on the Forum. The V3 TouchDRO app has been in Beta since last May 2-4, but I cannot access the Google Group...

Thanks for the great feedback. The reasons I would want a DRO on a mill would be for functions like bolt circles, halving to find centre, direct entry of measured values, and X by X hole patterns. As I understand it, the I-gaging style readout modules do not interact with one another, so these...

Hobby machinists span the gamut. Making fabrication & inspection jigs and fixtures is an underrated part of working with machine tools. I have thought about buying a DRO for the Taig mill, but the short travel on the X and Y axes makes it difficult to determine which scales would be best...

I used to go to McKinnon Metals a decade ago, but they have long since moved up to Woodbridge. I had not thought to go to recyclers as most seem to be geared to commerical clients.

Thought I should post something in here to give a sense of what I get up to. I've been wanting to turn some small wooden parts on my Taig metal lathe; handles, marking tool bodies, etc. Taig makes some accessories for wood turning, but I don't like them. The spur centre started as 3/4" ATF...

Yes, that's the town. The hardware store was targetted by thieves twice in one month; they stole over $50k worth of tools. Hope they caught the buggers. Anna Mae's puts together a heck of a meal.

Thanks for the offer! KBC, Canadian Bearings, and Metal Supermarkets are a reasonable divergence from my daily commute, so I try to order ahead and pickup during the week. I’ve laid in a decent amount of raw material over the last few months, but I am always short of something nonetheless. I...

Hi! Went to HS for a while in Barrie. I miss that city.

Online I’ve had to be either painstakingly exact or extremely vague about where I’m at. Not for privacy reasons, but because thems-from-away aren’t familiar with our idiosyncratic way of treating distances or placenames.I can’t assume that non-Canucks will even recognise “GTA”. Toronto they get...

dreaming in Technicolour, living in black & white.

I'd love to share pics but, as I noted, most of them are "started" projects that haven't yet been finished. This leaves them less than photogenic. This means anything horizontal ended up as a place to put something "temporarily", and bits of some machines have migrated away from their proper...

Like a fool, I visited this place in Kitchener without a list of doodads I needed for various projects. K-W Surplus A surprising assortment of things in the building. Don't know if they ship...

Thanks for the long distance assist! I'd like to buy you a beer next time I'm out to visit Calgary.

Thank you very much! The effort is much appreciated. Chris

Chiming in from outside the west end of Toronto.

Thank you all for your welcome. I'll be nosing through the various subjects in the forum for quite a while. As I also dabble in woodworking, I usually try to attend the semi-annual "Tools of the Trades" show in Pickering, ON. I've noted a variety of machinists' tools there during the last few...

Hello, I’d like to thank @Janger and @PeterT for their extra efforts in getting me connected here. The site would not send a confirmation email to either address I tried to register with. Saw that there were a number of AB members and reached out to that community. Finally back to metalworking...