• 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 Calgary Area Meetup is set for Saturday July 12th at 10am. The signup thread is 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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  1. Tom Kitta

    Corner Rounding Endmills are Expensive

    Well, sort of expensive - if you get US made and new. Used not so much & you can get carbide as well. For AL, if you have router bits around the wood stuff works. For most things AL (in soft grades) can be treated as a gummy hard wood.
  2. Tom Kitta

    Phishing Scams

    Ah AOL - who remembers these little free disks with AOL on them? They used to be big, well know - heck industry leader.
  3. Tom Kitta

    Craftex Metal Lathe CT089

    At that price it was minutes.
  4. Tom Kitta

    Tricky problem - squaring an untrue cube

    I assume its from "practical" standpoint of shipping. Imagine if blocks were bigger then the nut - nut on ER-32 is quite large. The hole for the collet would be the same size... so a LOT of extra metal. Extra metal not only cost money... it also is heavy - there are no voids there. So...
  5. Tom Kitta

    Tricky problem - squaring an untrue cube

    So I had the same problem... first make sure all sides are 90 degree... then make it square. Then make it square such as the ER-32 is right in the middle of it. Just a grinder problem. For the ER-32 just put say end mill in it and using test indicator on a granite plate figure out which side...
  6. Tom Kitta

    Scam Awareness

    Oh no, I did not just go and do 8000er like that - tourists could - they have like an army of people making sure they are OK. Here is a link to power point presentation in English - https://we.tl/t-gpGcWhVTKq
  7. Tom Kitta

    Scam Awareness

    Well, I think the last one - Manaslu - my first 8000er. Also first Canadian to reach the true top solo without use of oxygen. There is a small writeup on the site about this - in the off topic section. Usually things run smooth - theft is there but usually "small" - on bigger mountains...
  8. Tom Kitta

    Scam Awareness

    I done 10 expeditions. I was scammed once, in Nepal for $1000. Local police are useless. Hotel also got scammed but hired locals who "persuaded" him to pay out.
  9. Tom Kitta

    Scam Awareness

    There are many remit services available. But I do assume most people are not crazy enough to send international transfers. This is how I pay for many of my international mountaineering trips. Scary stuff! I also assume many of these remit services are used to move money out of Canada - you send...
  10. Tom Kitta

    Scam Awareness

    Why face plate? Maybe b/c too many people realized iPhones are fakes. This is a full time job for someone. All they do is sell fake stuff on 100s of profiles that were stolen. Bank stuff can be stolen as well, same as ID. Its a fully run commercial scam organizations that are the problem, with...
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