• Scam Alert. Members are reminded to NOT send money to buy anything. Don't buy things remote and have it shipped - go get it yourself, pay in person, and take your equipment with you. Scammers have burned people on this forum. Urgency, secrecy, excuses, selling for friend, newish members, FUD, are RED FLAGS. A video conference call is not adequate assurance. Face to face interactions are required. Please report suspicions to the forum admins. Stay Safe - anyone can get scammed.
  • Several Regions have held meetups already, but others are being planned or are evaluating the interest. The Ontario GTA West area meetup is planned for Saturday April 26th at Greasemonkeys shop in Aylmer Ontario. If you are interested and haven’t signed up yet, click here! Arbutus has also explored interest in a Fraser Valley meetup but it seems members either missed his thread or had other plans. Let him know if you are interested in a meetup later in the year by posting here! Slowpoke is trying to pull together an Ottawa area meetup later this summer. No date has been selected yet, so let him know if you are interested here! We are not aware of any other meetups being planned this year. If you are interested in doing something in your area, let everyone know and make it happen! Meetups are a great way to make new machining friends and get hands on help in your area. Don’t be shy, sign up and come, or plan your own meetup!

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  1. whydontu

    New member from eastern Ontario

    Welcome from Vancouver!
  2. whydontu

    Obvious scam - everywhere - $1800.....

    Do a search for any new computer or phone, popular ones are Mac Mini M4 or iPhone 16. You’ll find dozens of identical ads, offering the items at pricing far below current actual pricing, and all the identical ads will be connected to sellers in third-world countries. Facebook does absolutely...
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    Buying from McMaster Carr

    Woven fibreglass cloth with PTFE coating. 0.005” thick. Nice thing about McM-C is that if you click on the item part number, you can get detailed product information, including CAD, PDF, and STEP files with dimensions. They are a fountain of information.And because they sell everything, even get...
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    Buying from McMaster Carr

    Me being pedantic - PTFE is the generic term for polytetrafluoroethylene, Teflon is the trade name. Very slippery, mostly chemically inert, good for -250 to +350* F. Really, really, really good for a lot of industrial and medical applications, but soon to be on the bad-for-the-environment list.
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    Buying from McMaster Carr

    I order from McM-C all the time. Use my personal charge card, just use my previous employers business name. This Tuesday I needed to find a truly oddball pipe fitting - 3/4” male garden hose one end, 3/8” male British Standard Parallel Pipe BSPP one end. Try finding that at Home Depot! Ordered...
  6. whydontu

    buzz saw, $1100, Oyen, AB

    Also comes with a frequent user punch card - ten trips to the ER and you get a free pizza
  7. whydontu

    Milling Cutters $100 Delta BC

    https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1093458272590064/?
  8. whydontu

    Shaper $375

    And while you’re in Kelowna, here’s a steal on a 2hp 3-ph motor, vfd, ball screws, and the start of a cnc 4-axis machine. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/692563346594097/?
  9. whydontu

    Shop Tools to keep out in the open?

    I’ll throw in another aspect: about 95% of the machining I do is aluminum or stainless steel, so I have a lot of small tools stuck to magnets all around my shop. Drill press allen keys and morse drift key hanging off a big magnet bolted to the drill press column. Lathe tail stock chuck keys...
  10. whydontu

    Shaper $375

    But you could pick this up on your way to Kelowna for the South Bend! And with this shaper, you wouldn’t have to make truck body parts from folded sheet metal, you could make them from solid bar.
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