• Spring 2024 meetup in Calgary - date Saturday, April 20/2024. discussion Please RSVP Here to confirm and get your invitation and the location details. RSVP NOW so organizers can plan to get sufficient food etc. It's Tomorrow Saturday! you can still RSVP until I stop checking my phone tomorrow More info and agenda
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  • Spring meet up in Ontario, April 6/2024. NEW LOCATION See Post #31 Discussion AND THE NEW LOCATION

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    Craftex B2227L and bench for sale

    I print my manuals on shop towels. Might as well cut out a step, eh. Off topic but curious, Where's home Tom?
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    Free Weights Victoria

    True words.
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    WTB: VEMCO 3500-16 Detailer Drafting Arm

    No scales, but I can get you started with a track drafter 53" x 43". Free to you - but the cost of shipping would be considerable.
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    Vernon BC checking in

    Welcome! You can do both ... and metric if you want to. Folks on this site are egalitarian.
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    Just noticed this Video. Remarkable Machining

    I appreciate your points, Robert and Aliva. The video caused me to muse about the maxim "Form follows function" which was applied to excess ornamentation in architecture and industrial design. In this case, a mechanism which requires quality materials, precise design and manufacture to function...
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    Just noticed this Video. Remarkable Machining

    Many good Fountain Pens are available for $400. No ball bearings in their mechanisms though.
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    Just noticed this Video. Remarkable Machining

    Thanks, Robert. I wonder what they charge for the finished pen?
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    SOLD - Machinist Bedside Reader set of 3

    Good price and Vol's. Two and Three are currently out of print. Guy's books belong right beside Tom Lipton in the compleat machinist's shop. VR/DGC
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    Hello from Blackburn hamlet, Ontario

    ... and welcome. from Stittsville. We. raised. our. daughter in. Blackburn. Liked it a lot and our dog loved. the. trails.
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    For everyone that uses a file...

    That was what I. was. taught. to. do as. a tool. and. die. apprentice some 50. years ago!
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