• 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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    Ditron DRO Failed with Excellent Customer Service Followup

    On Wednesday morning last week I turned on my Ditron four axis DRO and a high pitched squeal came out of it, then nothing. I had purchase the unit at the end of October last year off of Amazon so I was not sure if it would be covered by warranty. I emailed Kate @ Ditron describing the problem...
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    Ditron DRO Finally Installed on Mill

    I finally got around to installing the DRO on my mill. The read out is mounted to the ceiling as the start panel was in the way and I didn't want to relocate it. It is a Ditron unit and the scales are magnetic. The installation was a bit of a challenge on the Y and Z axis. The left side of the...
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    Vega EDM-10 in Edmonton

    Not sure if anyone would be interested in this or if the price is even fair, but it looks like an interesting bit of kit. https://www.kijiji.ca/v-view-details.html?adId=1596042913
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    Picked this up last week

    I bought it for the endmills and ended up with a couple of tool posts, a faceplate, and 6" Bison chuck. I got the endmills for a good price but they all have a taper on the end. All the tapers are different from 60 degrees to 87 and I was wondering what they would have been used for. I was...
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    Suggestions on what to do with this chunk of steel

    I was given this piece of mystery metal and I am trying to come up with something to do with it. It is 12"x 9"x 2". Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks
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    RPC and Mill Pictures

    Hello, After trolling this site for awhile I thought I would show what I have been up to. Last summer I toke a chance and purchased a basket case Fritz Werner mill. Over the last six months a machinist friend and I have gone over it and checked it out and cleaned it. When we could not find any...
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