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    Show us your shops!

    FWIW, my shop at 25’x30’ 12’ inside height costs me roughly $150/year to keep at 59deg F electrical boiler heat. Zero maintenance. Not difficult to heat with wood fired boiler if desired. Easy on the feet and back when laying on floor in mid winter. Yes, more expensive up front, but worth it in...
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    Show us your shops!

    Like your start. Definitely insulation under slab. If you’re a prairie person, at least four inches of high compression foam. Al least two inches foam on outside of grade beam down three to four feet under grade. Put in pex for radiant heat even if you’re not sure you’ll use it. If you have an...
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    Estate sale machinist/knife making - Barrhead alberta

    One of the more amusing recent auctions was the one for Russel Garen’s estate. 16% buyers premium, 4% credit card fee, 12% state tax, if like me you’re not a business and you’re bringing it across the 49th, 12% Canadian tax. I lost count of the math. Didn’t bid. I feel a little better that the...
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    Product Metal Lathe Accessories update

    Have ordered castings from both Andy in the mid 1990’s and new owners this year. Very happy with both.
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    YouTube $$

    Did a little reading just out of curiosity. Can find articles showing both left and right wing bias to youtube. No idea if the algorithm they use for guys like me is either one. I don’t look at politics on youtube, so maybe I just don’t get bothered with as much crap? I certainly am the (self...
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    6x12 magnetic sine chuck

    Knd of looks like a Suburban, in which case, there’s a whole system of tooling/adaptors that are easy to implement if needed.
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    Deckel FP3 LG milling machine, $5000, Toronto, ON

    Good sized shop- the size I should have built. Are you installing lifting gear? Jib crane/gantry? Assume you are in the country? Good electric supply? In floor heat? Would love to see pics! On edit- I may have missed some, but in roughly 20 years of watching, I’ve only seen three FP3L’s come...
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    Just about the cutest chuck I've seen

    Surely you were studying something more useful than mulgere hircum? Which constitutes much of what I learned… (Something I shouldn’t ask someone I don’t know, but there seems to be some humour in this thread)
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    Just about the cutest chuck I've seen

    Ishmael, even my Scottish grandmother would be impressed with your two buck chuck. Queens engineering?
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    Wanted: CLAUSING 8520, 8525, or 8530

    I helped rescrape a sister mill of smedley’s. It’s probable the top of table is bent convex from overeager clamping force over the years. If so, a rebuild will get rid of some of the apprentice marks. Unless you want to peen the table bottom to warp the table into flat. (Not my preferred, but...
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