• 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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    Starrett metric height gauge - Peterborough On - $100

    https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1043317274511342/?ref=product_details&referral_code=marketplace_top_picks&referral_story_type=top_picks
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    Welcome to Westwood Metalworks, What is he building in there?

    I took my first hand/manual drafting class today as part of my 433a trade school curriculum. When I started high school back in 1996, Our small high school had just gutted the well equipped shop class the year before and with it, the drafting portion. They replaced it with a "high tech"...
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    How Not to Produce a Simple Wood Pattern

    Very nice job on the drawing. I've always had an affinity for old hand drawn prints. I'm taking my first ever manual drafting class right now, so maybe I'll start to do some hand drawing for projects in the future too.....
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    Weekly community thrift haul thread

    Their mark up is not as bad as value village.... I've found most of the gta restores to be not that great for tools and stuff I'm looking for. The Peterborough ones used to be good, and I used to stop weekly at both when I worked there, but then they shut down the south one, and the guy that...
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    Weekly community thrift haul thread

    Seeing as how I have to drive into the belly of Toronto for tradeschool everyday, I've been stopping at every pawn shop, and thrift store I can find on my way home this week to make that drive more worth while. Not found a whole lot, but have picked up some nice tools for the work box. The 15"...
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    New to me Ammco 7" Metal shaper

    Congrats, but that was way too quick from acquisition to running. Making the rest of us look bad :D.
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    Obvious scam - everywhere - $1800.....

    Ya, they've been doing it for tech gadgets and other stuff like that for years. As always, if it's too good to be true..... This one I found amusing because they're using an old 80's Toyota pickup lol. Next it'll be an old lineshaft shaper or something.
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    Obvious scam - everywhere - $1800.....

    https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/614708111603846/?ref=browse_tab&referral_code=marketplace_general&referral_story_type=general&tracking=%7B%22qid%22%3A%22-9157995693006429344%22%2C%22mf_story_key%22%3A%22772454356897058379%22%2C%22top_level_post_id%22%3A%22772454356897058379%22%2C%22comm...
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    9Pc Pin wrench set - $25 - Georgetown, On

    Doubt it was fake, probably snapped up quick id think.
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    Cincinnati tool and cutter grinder #2- $900 - Orono, On

    I love spending others money:)
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