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  1. Colten Edwards

    Sad sight

    in the northern community of carrot river,SK. I was making a delivery and my headlights caught this lathe. When i went back two days later i took those pictures
  2. Colten Edwards

    Sad sight

    I'm a courier and seen this on my route. sad
  3. Colten Edwards

    Looking at new lathe -- Opinions and Options

    not quite true on modern tool shipping. I was just quoted 750 to ship from edmonton to delisle,sk.
  4. Colten Edwards

    Does anyone have a: Grizzly G0619, Seig SX3, Shop Fox M1111 or a Busy Bee CX611

    King Industrial KC20VS is a G0704 clone as well. Parts from grizzly fit it quite well as I found out with the motor I replaced. the King is 1999.00 and I believe KMS has one.
  5. Colten Edwards

    New from Red Deer AB.

    I have the igaging DRO's installed on my mill along with a shumatech DRO-550. unfortunately this is no longer being manufactered. There is yuri toys which uses an android phone app to connect to the the DRO's. Could also use a tablet
  6. Colten Edwards

    King Industrial KC20-VS woes

    I looked at servicing the motor. the motor brush cap was melted. I finally got it out of the hole and actually saved the thread on the motor. I discovered that the Bocsch palm router I have, uses a similar cap and great surprise it fit. the brush was slightly larger, but a file fixed that...
  7. Colten Edwards

    Rotary table indexer

    one thing I found when ordering from china, is that if you send them to a stateside location, you can have them extremely quickly. I used to work for a company that had a office in Paducah,KY. I was using it to send parts to that I couldn't have sent to Canada, and then having that office...
  8. Colten Edwards

    King Industrial KC20-VS woes

    So I was boring out a 3in diameter hole in 2in aluminum. Somewhere close to 3inches, I started hearing motor noises, so I shutdown the mill. When I touched the motor it was hot.. Left it to cool down for the night and when I came out the next day started looking at what the problem was. The...
  9. Colten Edwards

    overprice lathe

    STC in Saskatchewan had there auction today and I was online listening to it. Lux-cut 11x36 lathe sold for 2500. and as pointed out, you would need to use a rigger in order to remove it from the building. There was some tooling, but not much. I had done some research on this lathe and no way was...
  10. Colten Edwards

    R8 tool storage

    I can see my CNC router being put to use on making one or two of these. Now just to load up Vectric Aspire and convert those PDF's to dxf format and fire up Mach3
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