• 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 Ontario GTA West area meetup is planned for Saturday April 26th at Greasemonkeys shop in Aylmer Ontario. If you are interested and haven’t signed up yet, click 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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    Making louvers

    I've wanted a louver press for a long time now. Unfortunately the price of the dies is way out of reach for me to just to have around. I built a press break a few years back, so I have the squishing means to do it. Just needed to figure out a cheap way of making dies. To the scrap pile for an...
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    2" X 72" belt grinder

    I was requested about a build thread for my belt grinder. Looking through my files, I see it was built in 2016. Times flies. One cast off 1.5 HP motor from a pooched pressure washer. A keyed hub from Princess auto and piece of 1/2" plate cut out and machined to accept hub, TIG welded together...
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    Members non stock cars

    I was asked for a picture of my car I took to Syracuse. Didn't figure it needed a whole thread just for that, so I opened this post for anyone else to post their unique rides. We did it for motorcycles, why non a car one. If there's a previous thread, I missed it. Here's my 1938 Chev. Full...
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    Mystery Mill

    I stumbled across this milling machine. Owner was moving, so stopped by and asked if they wanted to sell it or move it. They hadn't used it since they got it 10 years ago, so it was time to go. There is no name on it any where. There's a vendor tag on it from Federal Machinery in Toronto, a...
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    New guy from Belleville Ont

    Hello all, I've been playing with metal for a long time. I wouldn't consider myself a machinist, just a guy who owns a bunch of tools and likes playing with cars. I have a CNC plasma cutter, Standard-Modern lathe and recently acquired mystery milling machine. Will start another thread for it as...
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