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In Lethbridge there is National Salvage metal recycling, which is great fun to cruise through. Maybe Saskatoon has a similar business.

I have several machines that weigh 3500# each so not interested in moving them once in position. I used my Autocad program to make a scale drawing of the shop and each machine. Mills were drawn with table at the 4 extreme positions. With space at a premium, when running a lathe and turning...

I have these, and they are great!

I put a Baldor DC motor and quality controller on my knee mill and it works just great. I installed a cheap chinese tach with pickup off the spindle pulley so I know what rpm it’s running at. I put an old treadmill DC motor on a bench drill press, along with cheap chinese rectifier and voltage...

Oops.... I should have been thanking DavidR8 :-(.

Thanks for helping me out Stuart.

Sold. Thanks for looking. Now to figure out how to remove the ad.....

Stanko mill sold locally. Buyer and I got it rolled to the door on lots of 1/2” pipe; now waiting for the timing on the loader and trailer to show up :-).

Greetings, a number of years ago I bought my first shop machine, a SB 10k but didn’t notice at the auction it was metric. I think it came from a Canadian school (plate had English and French on it) and was in pristine condition. I ended up buying an imperial quick change gearbox, leadscrew...

I tried the Stanley "super glue" in very small tubes (several in a clear plastic pill bottle type container) that I got at Home Hardware. I like the tiny tubes, as usually once the tube is open it tends to go downhill quite quickly. Where the outside of the plastic container had big cracks it...