• 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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    Still looking for a lathe ! What do you think ?

    Thanks for the infos guys, unfortunatly, the person never replied, and sold it :/ Now, Im seeing this in my feed: The person seems to know nothing about it. From what I recon, it looks like a myford ml4 maybe ? But I cant see in what shape it is, I dont even know if its working. She couldnt...
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    Still looking for a lathe ! What do you think ?

    Hello, so I stopped looking for a few months because of work, but I was still looking for a lathe to work on some Alu / Stainless steel (small) pieces. I saw this announce, he is asking for 900 CAD. What do you guys think ? Is this worth it ? Thanks you !
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    Workshop and Air filtration.

    Well the machines producing the most dust right now are my table saw that I'm using for wood, and a small routeur (cant plug hose on it, I should have bought a better one). I'm also using grinder to cut metal and a circular saw, but I'm using those outside whenever I can to avoid dust, and also...
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    Workshop and Air filtration.

    Hello ! Long time no see haha ! So, I'm back to unemployment and I would like to take the time to redo my workshop to include more space for metal work. As you can see, it's an old interior swimming pool :) My first thing will be to install a wooden floor in order to get a straight floor...
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    Another Lathe...

    It seems it goes with quick change post 5 different tool holders
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    Another Lathe...

    Alright ! Thanks guys ! I found this one. It's a lathe that I should be able to fit in the garage. I don't see any major red flags They are asking 2000$, might be a bit expensive, what do you think ? Thanks you !
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    Another Lathe...

    Don't judge ! I'm shopping ! So, here a smaller lathe which fit better my small shop downstairs. I don't planned to lathe big piece, and I want to use my first lathe more as a learning tool than anything else. The one from the auction is really too big, even it's really attractive price wise...
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    DMC2 Mini Mill - build and review

    Yes it does ! Thanks you very much for all that precious informations :)
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    DMC2 Mini Mill - build and review

    Hello Mike, Thank you for the thread, it's very informative ! I wonder: Do you think that someone without prior experience would be able to build it ? Thanks !
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    Hello !

    Thanks guys ! Job loss is alright, I'm not too much worried about the future, and right now learning welding get me occupied :p
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