• 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. Darren

    SOURCING A VFD - WHERE DO YOU GO ?

    On mine, a vevor unit, I'm not seeing any ramp up times, accel, or anything like it. I spent an hour fiddling with it. All my other VFDs have accel/decel ramp times side by each.
  2. Darren

    Shop Now THIS is a Full Shop!

    I saw it the day It came out, and it really hit home. I'm going to be selling off a ton of stuff. I don't want to be leaving a goldmine. I should probably sell everything then spend like a drunken sailor so i don't burden the next of kin.
  3. Darren

    Santa was here!

    Must resist black Friday sales.....getting weak, opening links and new tabs in a frenzy, so much stuff that I NEED..So many deals....I better stop......but that FIX will feel sooooo good when the delivery truck rolls up...
  4. Darren

    DavidR8's shop shenanigans

    @Dabbler , you're ALWAYS welcome to store your wrecks at my place........
  5. Darren

    Blast room

    Reminds me of when they'd send the 50 year old cops in on enduros to chase us kids out of the gravel pits on our 250's......LOL
  6. Darren

    SM 2000 series feed clutch adjustment

    Is it possible to adjust the clutch on the feed shaft? I can make it slip a bit more easily than I feel ok with. The manual doesn't say, but I know a few of you, such as @Brent H and @RobinHood have been into this model deeper than I have.
  7. Darren

    SOURCING A VFD - WHERE DO YOU GO ?

    I installed a cheap AT1-2200x VFD last night, on an SM 1120. This is a 3hp rated VFD on a 3/4 hp machine. I have to say, once I got it setup, it works amazing. The DC Injection braking works flawlessly and stops the chuck in about 2 revolutions from 2000 rpm, and about a 1/4 rev at 200 rpm...
  8. Darren

    Power failures pick the worst time, without fail

    We have frequent power failures in the winter. I have 4 1100cca truck batteries in parallel hooked to a 3000 watt inverter. I made a suicide cord to backfeed the furnace circuit, which has a dual pole, hot and neutral, disconnect switch. It will run the furnace for days, and also charge phones...
  9. Darren

    netflix you suck almost as bad as twitter

    20 year old Tyson would have ended that fight before you could read this sentence. This doesn't make Jake a legit fighter . Maybe someday, but not off this fight.
  10. Darren

    netflix you suck almost as bad as twitter

    Yup 100%. I just wanted to see old school knockout power from him
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