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    Shop New lean to shop

    I’m curious if they passed new legislation or are simply, now, enforcing existing rules. Seems to be a southern Ontario thing, from what I’m hearing no politics
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    North America Busy Bee got me…

    FWIW, my local Napa can source me Gates, they usually can get me belts pretty quick. Belt tensioners and idlers too
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    Engineering based on antiquated standards.

    Wasn’t this a problem in WW2? There was a problem with rolling stock being the wrong gauge from one country to the next. Well, not wrong gauge there was two different gauges, if I’m remembering right
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    Self-contained workshop space

    Begs the question of scarcity of coastal guns or whether we can make them ourselves Forget castle law this is naval law :D
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    Tools you waited too long to acquire

    All that JD green ruined :( Well, nothing runs like an Oliver I guess
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    New member

    The chuckles slightly outweigh the actual advice given out around here I think :D Maybe it’s a tie, there’s some pretty knowledgeable folks that hang out here
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    real old lathe is gonna follow me home

    They may know of an old buggy or cart that could be repurposed, the Mennonite underground is amazing for projects that way I’ll let you scrounge barrel material over the summer, there’s no rush on my end Project Cannon for us dirty easterners needs to happen, just to say we can no politics
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    real old lathe is gonna follow me home

    It’s gonna need a flagpole......:D There’s a few Mennonite farms around me, I’ll kick a few tires about getting some wooden wheels and a carriage built
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    real old lathe is gonna follow me home

    What steel would you use for a cannon barrel? Hypothetically And what size and length do you want? Hypothetically You’ll likely need a large boring bar for the finished barrel? Or a reamer?
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    Tools you waited too long to acquire

    I just like poking the bear :D You’ll notice I never poke at the “boss”, that’s a losing battle I’m not interested in
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