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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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    Colchester Student 13"

    Next up was the feed shaft worm box. When pulling out the feed shaft, the worm box (has the gearing and lever to select surfacing or cross slide feeds) comes off as well. This thing was beyond packed with chips and old solidified oil. The first picture is after I had already cleaned some of it...
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    Colchester Student 13"

    It's a type of toolpost that lets you change angles to repeatable positions very quickly. I've never owned one until now, now don't think I could buy a different style.
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    Colchester Student 13"

    Thank you! Don't mind at all, paid $3k for it. I thought it was a great price given the shape and coming with all steady's. The multifix that came with was brand new and some beautiful skoda live centers that were never used still go for around $1700 total.
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    Hello Everyone

    I noticed some high frequency ringing when cutting on longer parts that'd cause a poor surface finish. A mass damper tuned to the same frequency will absorb the energy and oscillate instead of your workpiece. It will just let you push your lathe further before having to add a steady rest or...
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    Colchester Student 13"

    Once the machine was sat where I wanted it, I pulled the headstock cover to inspect. Opening it up revealed all the gears to be in great shape. The spindle has no play in it and almost no runout with a tenths indicator on it. Just recently I've noticed that the input shaft and idler have some...
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    Colchester Student 13"

    Hey Everyone! A few months ago I picked up a 1962 Mk1 Colchester Student Dominion with 13" swing and 24" between centres. I had been looking for a decently stout lathe in this size for a while and was originally wanting one of the older Standard Modern 12" (or bigger) Utilathes. This one popped...
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    Hello Everyone

    To say it's been a while would be quite the understatement! The day after posting here I got a career opportunity that has kept me flat out. It's been great but I am beyond happy to have had more time lately to work on my machining stuff! They are amazing dogs, we had one for fifteen years...
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    Looking for Dickson Tool holders

    Do you have the dimensions of yours handy? I have some sitting around that I have no use for, inherited them with some other equipment. I have cleaned them up and they are in good shape.
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    Hello Everyone

    Thanks fellas, I am in Calgary quite often and will hopefully be able to make it to some of the events/meetups. CalgaryPT, I definitely do more fabrication than machining too, really enjoy building in general. Is that a porty in your profile picture?
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    Hello Everyone

    Hi Everybody, New member from Calgary currently living in northern Alberta. I found this forum a few months back when looking for a new lathe and decided it was time to sign up. I am a mechanical engineer that has always enjoyed making anything and everything. My thought process has always been...
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