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We developed cereal process equipment for all of the Western Hemisphere plants. North, South and Central American Kellogg’s sites. I was a young mechanical designer back when London was a testing site for new product development at the state-of-the-art food plant. (High Speed packaging, C.I.P...

I have used AutoCAD, ProEngineer and Solidworks, but, it is just cool to layout a piece of equipment on the ‘board’ and ‘shade’ it to create depth and perspective. I still like to start sketches on my board.

Wow !! . . . Is that a ‘T’ Square ? That drafting board is antique compared to mine which was bought out of Kellogg’s Engineering office in London, Ontario . . . in the 1990.

We had a VOLSTRO attachment at Ex-Cell-O Special Tools. They seem to be very rare these days. (CNC has made them an expensive option) Alternate process: Mount your workpiece on a Rotary Table and position it with the Center of Rotation located properly from the OD edge of your mill cutter.

Descriptive Geometry was a topic I was taught back in college in the 1980s. I rarely used it for work after CAD was introduced in the 1990s. I just remember the one rule . . . “Lines must be perpendicular to the plane to be ‘true’ length. Can in handy for doing ‘flat layouts’ of diverters and...

Looks like it is a ‘Federal Mogul’. At least that was the brand line in the late 1990s. American company in the automotive and aeronautics industry. Jeff Joslin with this group maybe able to help . . . http://vintagemachinery.org/

Remember to use your ‘axis locks’ to reduce slack that will increase as your mill ages. Whether you have HAAS, TOSHIBA or off-shore workcenters there will be a degree of play in the leadscrews. The key is to use the correct practises to compensate for the play between components. Also, Always...

I think you will hear that MetalSupermarkets are ‘expensive’, but, they do sell a few common forms of bar & plate in small amounts for us ‘home’ fabricators. Millennium Alloys is a ‘industrial’ metal supplier who deal in a wide range of products and like to handle larger volumes of custom cut...

We have a few software developers in Central Ontario who are also CHMW members. Lots more of retired machinists, designers and project managers. I recently received some Aluminum Channel from a Kelowna, BC supplier. http://millenniumalloys.ca/ They seem to be close to you in Peachland. Welcome...

I have made an inquiry about ‘cut’ pieces from PROAX. They happen to be close to a few vendors that I visit on a weekly basis in Toronto. Stock lengths are 20 ft. and if the profiles are similar to European Standard, their are several End Users in our area.