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I can’t recall if I contacted you or not. Probably easier if you let me know what you are looking for..... if i don’t have it, I know who does. PM me if you’d rather. Happy to help out. Cheers, Derek Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

So I have returned from my crusade gentlemen and I have much to share..... I’m guessing that mist if you will know already what I am about to share but think of it as you would watching a child learning to count to 100 or perhaps the ABC’s..... just smile and nod. Rule #1. When you face...

I did Craig, but very likely not well enough because I caught myself on some of the burr after all was said and done. 2nd time around will be different. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Good morning guys. The lock on the knee is tight. Because I am milling with the X it can’t be locked. The y seems irrelevant but will try it to see. This Tormach vice wont allow the jaws to lift by its design but will measure it. I will give some steel a look later today and perhaps not clamp it...

Hey everyone..... So I pose this question in hopes that I am missing something, but I am pretty sure I’m not, and what’s worse, I may just “suck at this”. So last night I mounted my “new to me” but never used Tormach vice to my mill table. I put my Indicol ontobthe mill quill with its .0005...

Welcome from Ancaster!! Watch out for that guy from St. Catherines..... Gerrit. He’s all trouble, lol.... I hung out with him for merely 3 hours and next thing I knew I had an Optical Comparator on a truck coming to me from Regina! This bunch is a pretty great group! Cheers. Derek Sent...

When the guy comes to the door you tell him to hold onto the package and that you ate going to self broker. Usually they have the commercial invoice right on the box. If he/she/they are “good people” then they will give you that invoice. If not get as much info as you can. I usually snap a few...

Apologies, looking at the pic it was the steam engines. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

They are three Wilesco “all brass” live steam traction engines. My moms boss had the identical 2 of the 3. When I was a kid we got to go to his house for the company Christmas party and he’d fire them so that my brother Trevor and I could see them go. Fast forward to 2004 I found all three on...

If I let common sense get in the way of my judgement (when it comes to machines and shop stuff) I wouldn’t have anywhere near the cool stuff that I do...... Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk