• 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!

Search results

  1. H

    Garage sales season

    Attended one yesterday...and ya gotta be careful. I bought a brand new tap & die set ( Vermont American, so I think it good quality), complete set with not one of the tools being ever used, included 3 sizes of tap & die handles along with other trinkets needed when threading. The thing is...
  2. H

    What would you do

    This is so far "off topic" but here goes. mid afternoon yesterday the wife & I were enjoying a movie she had streaming when i looked outside and saw about a dozen deer ( all does or this yrs fawns that have grown up) had entered the yard about 150 yrds from the house and were milling about...
  3. H

    Field expedient fixes

    Every once in a while we encounter a situation that requires an unorthodox "field expedient " fix of one thing or another...and great satisfaction can be had when finished...but pls boys- remember that someone may have to re-fix the item somewhere down the road so make it refixable. I just...
  4. H

    S/E Asian button rifling

    One for the kitchen table gunsmiths onboard. I dont know how to "link" but I think a google to "How to make barrel rifling from old steel bolt" will get you to the Utube vid. Interesting but very much a "Kyber Pass" type operation ...but I bet it works in a pinch.
  5. H

    High carbon steel and a pile of aluminum

    Morning fellows, I have started a farm yard clean up in a yard that was used for the last 60 yrs as a bit of a junk collection site for construction & farming equipment. I dont know what will roll out of the grass yet but so far I have found some wear resistant ground engagement pieces (hay...
  6. H

    What a difference 8 minutes can make

    Four or five yrs ago my ophthalmologist started to mention I would need a cataract operation in the future. That condition progressed until last spring i notice a significant difference in sight quality and it continued to get worse over the summer. Mid summer I had to quit driving and...
  7. H

    Inexpensive Tig welders

    buddy of mine is entering the world of tig welding. He has 3 options that he is considering so far ...converting his existing wirefeed with some sort of high frequency upgrade or purchasing a new purpose built on-shore name brand outfit for $ 3200 or one of the Amazon off-shore outfits for...
  8. H

    Powering up my old Hendey lathe

    So, I aint no A.C. lectrical engineer, like all truck drivers ever born i can re-wire any 12 V system to perform better'n any engineer ever thought of but AC aint my cup-o-tea. I expected there to be 4 wires inside the hard cover but there are only 3. two white and a black. I will be...
  9. H

    real old lathe is gonna follow me home

    Not a Kijiji find but a phone call from a very considerate neighbor should land a very old lathe in my shop next week. I havent seen it yet but he describes it as "in pretty good shape for its age". It has 2 patent # on it that date 1892 and 1894. Pretty sure it started its life as a...
  10. H

    Tips/Techniques Power requirements for a Plasma cutter

    Well we got Jim's compressor issues pretty much hashed out so on with another one. I said in one of my post's that the topcic has renewed my interest in acquiring a small machine capable of "severing" 1/2" mild steel. Most of my cutting these days is 1/4-3/8" but if the need arises "better...
Back
Top