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    Add your first name & picture to your profile please - what do you all think?

    I too just opened this thread for the first time and your post reminded me of something ... so it's story time :) My first wife and I bought a house in the Forest Grove area in Saskatoon 30-ish years go. The house was one of the first built in the area, not counting the CP homes built beside...
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    Tool Post Grinder

    Maybe a dumb question, and also a slight detour, but why not use a 6.5 mm collet ? I have various ER sets, all metric, and since they have a reasonable clamping range I have always found a metric size that works for an imperial shaft. Is this a bad compromise ? Dave
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    Hello from Toronto.

    Nice, and I agree. You were at the U of S ? or U of R ? What college if I may ask. Dave U of S BSc (EE) 1981ish and still a (frozen) resident
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    Swage blocks.

    Time to make a DIY EDM :) Dave
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    Rockford CNC Lathe Revival

    While still a reasonably pricy lathe, in 2000 the Australian dollar was as low as about $0.50 USD. Dave
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    Tiny Drill chuck

    Yes, I see that now. It looked like a straight-shank when I glanced quickly, sorry for any distraction. The Albrecht sensitive feed does come in a straight-shank version that could be held in a collet (that's what I do with my Indian version) ...
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    Hello from Newcastle, Ontario

    The 75 sites were all over the world, but of course they were all text-only pages ... with blue-text to indicate it was a link to another page. I was able to connect with NetNorth (and on to BitNet) as part of my work with a networking company. The world has evolved a tad since those days :) Dave
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    Tiny Drill chuck

    That is a great little tool. As you know many of the small sensitive drill presses have lever-operated tables and fixed quills (opposite to the standard drill press where the quill moves vertically and the table/workpiece remains stationary). Making a little moving-table platform for use in a...
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    Tiny Drill chuck

    This is why I suggested the Albrecht/Sherline/Indian sensitive feed mechanism. Holding the drill bit is not that difficult as many here have shown, it's the issue of having sufficient feel to not break tiny bits that is a greater problem IMO. The quill down feed on a mill or mill/drill is fine...
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    Tiny Drill chuck

    lol ... ya, Albrecht chucks ain't cheap but I love them. Bought one a few years back and now have 4 :) I get used ones that have reasonable looking jaws off eBay, then rebuild them (takes an hour or two). Here is the Indian version sans chuck...
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