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    Other Canadiana - Last Minute (St. Catharines) test indicator

    here's a fun little historical artifact: a dial test indicator made by Last Minute Mfg. Co. of St. Catharines, Ontario (not too far from where I sit typing this). The dial is graduated in half thous and the name is vaguely reminiscent of the starrett "last word" indicators of the same type...
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    Aciera F1 milling machines, Cranbrook BC

    oh I just didn't post all the pictures from the original ad cause I'm lazy and also didn't notice the different switches. here's the june 2024 seller's picture of the same machine in the BC guy's ad:
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    Aciera F1 milling machines, Cranbrook BC

    june 2024 and I replied 18 hours after the ad was posted and someone beat me to it so yeah
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    Aciera F1 milling machines, Cranbrook BC

    if you wanna know what the seller got them for: super super disappointing that one of my dream machines popped up at a good price right in my back yard (hamilton) only to end up shipped across the country to the hands of a flipper who couldn't even be bothered to clean them...
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    Wtb schaublin 135 or 150

    wowowowow that's a big number. surprising to me since the only two big schaublins I've seen on kijiji were listed for what I thought were not insane prices and both took months to sell (a 160 in quebec for 7500$ in feb of 2024 and a 135 in ontario for 5000$ in 2023)... I guess the kicker is...
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    quick n dirty diy bead roller for tubing

    oh yeah that would be smart like this was made with basically no planning
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    Verticut , Vertical BandSaw., $3000, Hamilton, ON

    ermm I got the same model at auction for 500$ including fees and whatever... I think a good price for a used roll-in is somewhere like 500-700$, 3k is a bit wild to me
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    quick n dirty diy bead roller for tubing

    oh wow I never thought of making one out of vise grips, that's way less work lol I wouldn't make the body longer (seems like a waste of material?), I'd bolt a block on the bottom so I don't have to hold it in a vise like this. but clearly I haven't done this because I'm lazy
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    quick n dirty diy bead roller for tubing

    just thought I'd show off this bead roller I made in 2022 out of stuff I had in my junk bins. I used it to roll beads on aluminum tubing for an intercooler I was putting in my LJ78 landcruiser. front view isometric ish top view the body is made of aluminum and the wheels are made of...
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    making a D1-4 chuck backplate

    you know what, I don't remember if I measured this... I just figured since I machined the chuck face with the backplate mounted up it would be basically 0 unfortunately can't access the bolt heads with mounted to the spindle but maybe I will play with it a bit. I did try clocking the chuck to...
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