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    making a D1-4 chuck backplate

    D1-4 backplate – or how to spend over 12 hours with thousands of dollars of machinery to save one hundred and thirty dollars One of the reasons my lathe was kind of cheap was that when I bought it, none of the tooling it came with was immediately useful. There was a (partially complete) set...
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    Deckel Jig Grinder / Boring machine

    huh, what's your reasoning? I understand that jig borer tables are built differently from mill ones because they only are supposed to take downward/radial load (drilling/boring) but the straps would be putting a downward load on the table. the Z axis is the machine column/head moving relative...
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    Deckel Jig Grinder / Boring machine

    wowowow, never thought I'd see a Deckel LK for sale in canada. the head on the floor is the "fine boring" head, and the one on the machine is for jig grinding, looks like there's two grinding motors for it too. the LKs have optical readouts with 1 micron / 0.0001" resolution. I would love to...
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    Wohlhaupter UK4 taper boring head (mtl area)

    https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/8425891757529373/?rdid=E9qd7vmTOSCiqJIX&share_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fshare%2F15aZp7919j%2F it's a boring head... that can cut tapers? I didn't know these existed quick look online on PM and elsewhere suggests that they're rare and...
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    Indexing rotary table for milling machine 32.4" Dia, $2500, Toronto, ON

    finally got around to scanning this which I've had stuck to my fridge with magnets for the past few years haha. Could be the very same rotary table in this picture!
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    Does Anyone Still Make The Real Swiss or German Multifix Tool Post? (not an offshore clone)

    we have a huge multifix (C?) on a big tos (sn50?) at work and we got more toolholders from pewe tools in germany, just off their website. wasn't cheap but the quality is fine. I am fairly certain these are made in china though. for what it's worth I have a multifix aa set from aliexpress that I...
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    biax IV/EB power scraper, new tecumseth ON

    https://www.kijiji.ca/v-power-tool/mississauga-peel-region/dapra-biax-power-scraper/1709223660 older style blue guy - 1950s according to a richard king post. I wouldn't call it a "deal" (at that price I'd just use my arms) but a quick look around suggests it's about on par with like ebay or...
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    euromill alert - prvomajska ALG200B in mississauga

    https://www.kijiji.ca/v-other-business-industrial/mississauga-peel-region/milling-machine/1708632112 Looks about deckel FP2/3 sized - 600/230/390 mm travels, 1600 kg. looks like it's in nice shape too. price I would say is maybe high end of reasonable? other accessories will be impossible to...
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    Tool spotting blue for scraping?

    boring answer unfortunately - I somehow scored a biax 7ELM on kijiji for 100$ so I've just been using that and the blades that came with it on some hokey handle I made. as a bit of a tangent - I intend to make a pull scraper at some point. I've got some nubbins from an old SIP measuring...
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    Tool spotting blue for scraping?

    Hi all, any suggestions for spotting blue for scraping and where to get it? a few of the usual options (stuart's micrometer blue, dykem...) I've looked at it seems like you have to pay a bit of a premium to get here. the stuff I have (PRM pro spotting blue) I find hard to see, and if I go...
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