• 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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    YesWelder?

    File a claim, with the vendor, he's the one that needs to correct this.
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    YesWelder?

    I don't mind being thrifty when I buy stuff, but I tend to research what I'm buying to avoid wasting money. I am on stuck on brand names, or scared of spending money when required, but I hate wasting money on crap. The YesWelder reminds me of Dollar Store tools, you buy them hoping they last...
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    Wheel stud fatigue failure from insufficient torque

    Most lug nuts are over tightened beyond the friction range and tensile strength to point of yielding and stretching. This is what cause bolt failure. This is from the retired head of engineering at Alcona wheels. Under tightening does not create enough tension for sufficient friction to...
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    Tool Tailstock Turret

    These rotating centers where designed as poor mans, Turret Lathes. While still available seem to have fallen out of favour because of interchangeable tool holders. Well built examples tend to be either big commercial units (enough space not to imped working area) or small purpose built...
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    DavidR8's shop shenanigans

    For those guessing torque, drill size for threads, clearance holes, shears strength etc, get iEngineer for your iPhone http://perfectlysimpleapps.com/
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    Where to buy……

    DeBoers is "High performance TiB2 PVD coating" very impressive so far. I haven't seen any chip welding so far. I flood cool, just flushes the chips way. Their Aluminium cutters are a special 3fl grind geared just for Aluminium. I am currently using their semi finisher for doing the work...
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    Where to buy……

    Just checked their pricing not bad, inline with DeBoers (Canadian here in Mississauga).
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    Where to buy……

    This is question that is followed with a question? Thrifty And Lucky or Wise? or Lucky? Thrifty and Lucky is go to some of the online sources recommend by members, not a bad way to start as you are going to damage a few till you get them figured out. Wise, start into better quality stuff...
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    YesWelder?

    We had that happen with buying a dog gate....$50.00 shipping included, charged $550.00 with them trying a second charge as I was speaking with the credit card company. Once bitten twice shy. Now I use AMEX, they take the Gorilla approach bad vendors and claw back every dollars along with a...
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    How Metal Cuts

    I see all sorts of posting on what we perceive materials do when being cut, well here it is under an electron microscope.
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