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  1. Six O Two

    Hello from Hamilton

    Very cool! That bike looks great. I've had it in my mind that if I want to build some full suspension mtb bikes, I might want to start practicing aluminum tig welding. I noticed Senko in the top picture but didn't put 2 & 2 together. Pretty sure I've seen your posts on v-salon and on IG.
  2. Six O Two

    Hello from Hamilton

    Welcome from the interior of BC. I also have an excello, and also mostly got into it for framebuilding. Looks like you're a bit ahead of me though, I'm only on frame #2 at the moment... I keep on getting distracted by other projects....
  3. Six O Two

    Identify this mill?

    I had one of those, I think, judging from the nameplate. Here's a picture of the one I had. I'd not want to move it by hand without quite a bit of disassembly, even with two people.
  4. Six O Two

    Are wives (or husbands...) that bad?

    That, or some female machinists...
  5. Six O Two

    Welding carts & compressed gases

    When I lived in Calgary, I bought a bottle from KMS after having leased for a few years. That first bottle had bad argon in it though, and it messed up my welds for a while until I managed to track down the issue. Then I moved to the Kootenays, and none of my local shops will fill a 3rd party...
  6. Six O Two

    Radon gas mitigation in our home.

    Revisiting this thread. It prompted me to order a Radon detector, and I've had it running in the basement for 3 days now. My results are the same as John's in that they're much worse than what the mail in report showed. My mail-in results showed 222 Bq/m^3 at one end of the basement, and 170...
  7. Six O Two

    Klopp clapper

    Had to go searching. That shaper's a thing of beauty!
  8. Six O Two

    Klopp clapper

    Amazing story which would be infinitely better with pictures of the shaper in question...
  9. Six O Two

    Welding carts & compressed gases

    This is what I'm using these days. I was using those flimsy carts that you always see as part of the entry level kits with the angled top. My tig machine didn't even fit on it, so I screwed a larger plywood platform on it, but once I got a mig machine, I started scheming on how to properly store...
  10. Six O Two

    Inquiring about rotary phase converters and VFDs.

    I installed an American Rotary 5hp phase converter in my shop. With two machines to power (for now), I figured that one RPC would save me some money vs 2 VFDs. It didn't quite end up that way, but I'm still happy with the result. Both my mill and lathe already had on-the-fly speed adjust, so...
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