• 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!

Search results

  1. M

    Mikes shop activities

    Yeah, I know, one of the more difficult engines out there to build.. Its a Pratt and Whitney Wasp Jr. (R-985) in 1/6th scale. If being 9 cylinders wasn't enough its a smaller scale than most making it more like watch making at times...
  2. M

    Mikes shop activities

    Here's a list of all the current activities. Like others, I jump around too much to have a dedicated thread for 1 activity, so I'll toss them together in this word salad of all things going on in my hobby shop. The longest "active" project is the radial. Started it 10+ years ago. Didn't know...
  3. M

    Delta 14" conversion to metal cutting

    I was looking at doing something similar to my 12" Delta, I wanted to convert for cutting sheet metal which the horizontal saw just cannot do in its normal configuration, but just a few days ago I decided that it would be easier to get a fine pitch blade and use my horizontal saw in a vertical...
  4. M

    electronic payment for donations - looking for suggestions

    I'm part of a small club that operates model ride behind locomotives, live steam, "diesel"(gas engine) and battery electric, and on the last Sunday of the month over the summer we provide demonstrations of the locomotives where people can catch a ride on one of the trains. We do not charge for...
  5. M

    Heli-Coil tap size for 1/2-13

    Glad you got by, turns out mine is M10x1.5, its just that the STI tap is so large compared to the base M10x1.5 that I thought it was for a larger size.
  6. M

    Heli-Coil tap size for 1/2-13

    Give me an hour or 3 and I'll check when I get home - that may be the one size that I have a heli-coil tap and inserts for (or its metric 12mm).
  7. M

    Repair a gib?

    +1 on washer, it can even be unsymmetrical to catch more of the gib while still fitting in the pocket for the screw.
  8. M

    New Bambu

    Not kidding, its not April 1 yet. I know someone who is excited to get it, but he runs a side business of 3D printing things... Dual head means a fair amount of time saving and waste material saving for prints that use 2 different colours or support material - so for a business guy, more...
  9. M

    Repair a gib?

    Just trim it, and maybe make a better fitting screw that doesn't deflect so much. That seems to me to be the path of least resistance
  10. M

    Tool Inexpensive demagnetizers?

    I don't know, but might be worth a shot building the dirt simple spinny type previously shown mounted on a cordless drill and trying to demag your table with it just by passing it over the surface in a pattern. I'd bet a few bucks it'll work well enough to kill the annoying magnetism and you'd...
Back
Top