• 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. whydontu

    New member from Saskatchewan.

    Welcome from Vancouver! stuff that makes an RF-30 more fun: DRO, Vevor power feed, 2HP 240V 3-phase motor with VFD, replace the head lift hand crank with a nice big hand wheel, remove the annoying metal belt guard and replace it with a plexiglass shield, lots of tooling. we're all here more...
  2. whydontu

    One less John on the Forum

    A good friend from many years ago (best man at my wedding in 1984) transitioned in 2010, at age 57. Full support from their employer, their partner, Montreal did the SRS, went very well. Laura enjoys life much more than she ever did when she was Rick. Best story of the transition? When R was...
  3. whydontu

    Need some Lathe Work

    Once had an engineer send me a spec sheet requiring a 40ft long section of 4" Sch40 steel pipe, epoxy coated and lined. I suggested if they could find me a 75mm tall Temporary Foreign Worker I could have the TFW drag the sandblast hose and nozzle into the pipe to clean the inside. Never heard...
  4. whydontu

    Hello!

    Welcome from Vancouver!
  5. whydontu

    DavidR8's shop shenanigans

    Same one I have. Works well, the heater is great but takes forever to get to temperature if the tank is full so you need to allow for that if you want the extra cleaning results from hot cleaning fluid. Big enough to easily clean carbs.
  6. whydontu

    WTB 6'-10' metal planer BC

    Involved response. In 2015 my employer bought a Monarch lathe and a Bridgeport mill from Lenmark in Langley. Lenmark was selling all the gear from a company that rebuilt old machine tools, they probably had a dozen Monarchs and some truly amazing gear. I recall they had a couple of planers, but...
  7. whydontu

    Car designs suck

    Boots Theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory
  8. whydontu

    Car designs suck

    Ouch. I don't keep up with car prices, I drive a 2010 Matrix, my wife has a 2003 Corolla. 10,000 years from now, some archaeologist will dig up the Corolla. Put in some fresh gas, a new battery, and drive it away from the excavation site. $55k for a Leaf? Insane. So the payback is 20+ years...
  9. whydontu

    Car designs suck

    As @Downwindtracker2 says, Vancouver has definitely warmed up in the last 50+ years. You used to wait for the PNE to start second week of August, then you knew you’d have one week of hot sunny weather. Now it’s end of May with days above 20C. Fire season use to start in June, now BC has forest...
  10. whydontu

    Really ?

    To qualify my experience with a Hyundai. I’ve owned a lot of vehicles. Some true winners were: 1964 Bedford van, 1959 DKW sedan, 1959 DKM MUNGA 4x4 (both with 900cc 3-cylinder two-stroke engines), 1975 Maverick, 1982 Plymouth Volare wagon, 1979 Chevette, 1972 Cortina, Fiat 124 (let’s put the...
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