• 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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    Machinery's 20th

    The mere fact that it is included in the choices for thread pitch on both Lathe gearboxes, AND thread pitch Gages, pretty much states that it was a Standard SOMEWHERE. Have yet to find a thread Gage that goes up through ALL the numbers, just in case... That said, I HAVE seen a blueprint for a...
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    Spitfire needs work

    One of the guys in our RC Airplane club in the Comox Valley, owned a Grob 'glass slipper' style glider. Early 1980's. That rig was hitting over $300k then... My new built house, and the five acres it was on, was less than half that, at the time! But, if it ain't taking food outta anyone's...
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    Auction advice.

    I'm pretty sure it was less than ten years ago that hey went to the "Auction" format, vs. "Sealed Bids". Probably half my shop was bought that way. Eg:, I bought an Acklands labeled (painted orange instead of blue) Miller 225D Bobcat Diesel welder, complete with cables, a Tig box, regs, and a...
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    Spitfire needs work

    I can sorta understand, given the costs twenty years ago, that were making my private pilot friends whinge and wince. A fella that can afford to play in that rarefied air, may well think that the premiums will amount to worse than the damage. The 'homebuilt' that was being put together while I...
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    Spitfire needs work

    Springbank, outside Calgary? I was trapped there for almost two weeks when they held the G-8 summit, in Kananaskis Country(2002?), long ago! LOL. We were bored enough to start snaring gophers from their holes, and dying them different colors with Kool-Aid crystals before releasing them... Red...
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    Spitfire needs work

    Not news to me, spent almost 30 years burning other people's money, fixing and fueling various military aircraft. Started out on Grumman CS2f Trackers and Lockheed T-33 Silver Stars, went on from that gig, to Moose Jaw, on the Tutor aircraft, then Bell 412's, then F-18's. From my perspective...
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    Spring is Here!

    Am guessing that your 8 string bales were large square bales @1000 pounds plus. Each baler manufacturer has their own opinions as to the right number of strings to use, depending on the bale size. Larger bales are less handling, than the small squares we make here. My horse chick customers get...
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    Spring is Here!

    Pretty much like @Susquatch says, cost is a factor. 30 percent bonus on teh exchange rate certainly helps! Some boils down to the ability to grow specific crops well in other areas too. Irrigation access, plays a role further. I have a flock of sheep that need feed through the winter, they get...
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    Auction advice.

    Probably no reserve. But, the OP IS bidding against someone that posted a Maximum amount they were supposedly willing to pay, and when a bid under that, is submitted, the system automatically adds the next Bid Increment to THAT persons account, and tells you you have failed to outbid the high...
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    Anyone using ChatGTP?

    At this point in my life, I already think that the so-called News, is mainly only fit to line a parrot cage. All this AI generated (but otherwise unmarked/unidentified) content can paint whatever picture (literally) the user wants. I have no fondness for Government oversight, but would be...
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