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  1. Stuart Samuel

    Plasma cutter for under $300!!

    Excellent taste in hoods. :)
  2. Stuart Samuel

    Shop Contents: Surface PlateTable,Dust Collector,Lathe,Metal St, Etobicoke, ON

    He told me about a setup he had on that remaining lathe for cutting oil grooves inside some sort of 6-8” custom bushing. To my recollection/understanding he drilled into the front face of the headstock and mounted a large disk on a shaft, linked to the gearing of the lathe somehow, with a...
  3. Stuart Samuel

    Shop Contents: Surface PlateTable,Dust Collector,Lathe,Metal St, Etobicoke, ON

    Yes, I bought some stuff from him (his wife listed it) early to mid pandemic. They had an Okuma LK lathe I would have loved to buy (didn’t have a spare $7k), which was being loaded on a trailer when I got there. Older Yugoslavian guy, a bit stiff at first but warmed up once we got talking, ended...
  4. Stuart Samuel

    Deckel FP3 LG milling machine, $5000, Toronto, ON

    Looks like a facing lathe. :) Edit: Google image search, looks like a Zerbst DP 1000, more specifically. Its funny how similar their architecture is, though one spins a tool and move the work, And the other spins the work and moves the tool.
  5. Stuart Samuel

    Excello mill, $1000, Bluewater, ON

    https://www.facebook.com/share/LVttZioyNzsXiHaS/?mibextid=79PoIi Doesn’t mention spindle taper, but that looks like a collet holder on the left side, so I’d guess R8.
  6. Stuart Samuel

    Shop Now THIS is a Full Shop!

    Yes. I'm not married (divorced), but my parents (mid 70's) and closest friends have a short list of people to contact to deal with all my junk if I drop dead, etc.
  7. Stuart Samuel

    Cool Tools in your home shop that you'd not likely not see in someone else's?

    You reminded me of something I have. Material, not a tool, but probably not kicking around most shops. Platinum wire, ~0.005 diameter. Inherited from my Dad, apparently they used it in printers or photocopiers at some point (He spent 40+ years as a Xerox technician).
  8. Stuart Samuel

    CA-ON Jewelers rolling mill

    Where are you located, 1018? I feel like it was Ontario somewhere, but... If it's not a crazy trip, you're welcome to just use my mill (Durston, 4.5" wide flat rolls). I'm in Etobicoke, west end of Toronto.
  9. Stuart Samuel

    Bridgeport 49" Table Slide Length?

    I’m pretty confident weight is a factor. There’s more resistance cranking if the vise is on the end cantilevered out. I’m actually not sure the nut on our older mill has ever been tightened.
  10. Stuart Samuel

    Bridgeport 49" Table Slide Length?

    I'm not a real machinist, just play one on TV, but... before we installed a DRO on our mill at work, we used those bolts as stops, for repeat parts. There's a fixed stop/pin at the centre of the machine they run into. With the DRO installed, they're kind of vestigial. The physical travel limit...
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