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  1. whydontu

    Metal lathe King Canada 1450 CA$1,900

    Optimist or pessimist? Listing is gone, so either FB flagged this as a scam, or someone got a really good deal.
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    Tips/Techniques Intermixing metric and imperial on a CNC machine

    Oh, I like that! 21/40ths sounds so precise!
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    Tips/Techniques better suggestion for holding thin sheet metal for milling?

    Luddite reply. 1000 tiny holes? No big deal. Recent project involved fabricating an air bubbler with fairly accurate hole size and spacing. 6” long piece of 3/4” Sch40 pipe, with rows of #60 holes spaced 3mm apart, located every 20 degrees around the pipe. Made a mandrel to hold the pipe in a...
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    Tips/Techniques Intermixing metric and imperial on a CNC machine

    It’s all fun and games until you have to explain to a new engineer that a metric drawing showing a 9.525 x 1.5875 UNC bolt is not proper terminology, and sending that drawing out to the fab shop might be a lifelong source of hazing.
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    Tips/Techniques better suggestion for holding thin sheet metal for milling?

    Machinable wax. Make a wooden box to hold your workpiece, support the workpiece up off the bottom of the box, melt the wax, submerge the workpiece, let the wax cool. https://www.instructables.com/Machinable-Wax/
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    Introduction

    Welcome from Vancouver!
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    Harrison 11x24 lathe w/ DRO & VFD $3500, Mid-Vancouver Island

    That pretty well describes some marriages.
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    Levelling feet

    I’m assuming the lathe legs are cast iron, which means they weren’t flat to begin with, and your floor isn’t flat either. So the legs should be strong enough to handle any offset force generated by the new adjusting pucks. The only thing I’d do is tighten down a hex nut onto the 5/8” stud to...
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    Power failures pick the worst time, without fail

    Traffic woes in Sooke? Have you ever traversed the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Richmond, or tried going through the Massey Tunnel at 8 AM or 4 PM?
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    Hope This Won’t Impact You Northerners’ Holiday Party Plans

    I’m not sure, and it wouldn’t surprise me.
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