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  • 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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    Bison bench vise pawn shop find

    I wandered through a pawn shop last week and noticed a small bench vise. I am looking for a bigger one but went over to have a look at it. Surprisingly to me it was a Bison vise made in Poland. Model PJWT-80. I consider this to be one of my best ever finds in a pawn shop and it was only $30. I...
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    Homemade cabbing machine from scrap.

    I looked into ordering a grinder similar to a cabking. I just couldn't find anything that could handle 3 wheels on each side and was slow enough. I think a 3 phase motor with a VFD would be great.
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    Homemade cabbing machine from scrap.

    Nice: Any chance of buying a few small pieces?
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    Homemade cabbing machine from scrap.

    I have a piece of 1" 304 stainless. It's what I'm going to use for the cabbing machine shaft. I can't see how 1018 wouldn't rust because the coolant used in a cabbing machine is water. I might get away with 1018 in my slab saw because the coolant is oil. The ideal solution would be to find out...
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    Homemade cabbing machine from scrap.

    I have the shaft and it's a piece of 1" 304. It does seem to have about .002 of runout. Hopefully it will be ok. I has hoping to find a 1/2 HP motor but ended up with a 1 HP 3 phase one that I'm going to use. I do have a 16" slabbing saw. If you get one I highly recommend putting it on a stand...
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    Homemade cabbing machine from scrap.

    Nice: I plan on making one of these later this year. I bought a used set of wheels that were about 1/3 of life used. Do you know what the metal is that you used for the main shaft? I was planning on putting a bearing on each outboard end also so 4 in total. After that I need to make a trim saw.
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    Question about casting bronze

    I was thinking about doing something like that. I have easy access to aluminum cut offs. I'm on the road for work now so don't have access to the plans to be 100% sure about the bearing surface. I know for sure the crankshaft goes through the center bore. The rest just supports the bearing. From...
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    Other Shop footwear - what's on your feet?

    I wear old new balance sneakers Ones that are too worn to wear in public. I'm not against safety shoes or boots but I have never found any that did not cause a lot of knee pain within a few hours. If I'm handling heavy stuff I do usually put on steel toed sneakers.
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    Question about casting bronze

    Unfortunately due to the odd shape of the bearing I can't as far as I know modify an existing one. I probably won't want to go so far as to make my own casting equipment. I think it's likely I can find someone in my part of Canada who can melt some metal. I'm just hoping to make a round slug so...
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    Question about casting bronze

    The ingot idea is a good one if starting from scratch. I was hoping to use the recovered chips because the last time my friend did a particular job he had several buckets of chips from turning bearing bronze. I can get used bushings from work. They are made from a high quality bronze. I looked...
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