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Another herring choker - Greetings from New Brunswick!!!

mikoyan31

Stewie
Greetings and Hallucinations from the wilds of New Brunswick.

I'm located about 20 min north of Woodstock and have recently pulled the trigger on some shop equipment of my own. Merry Christmas to me!

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What we're looking at here is about 1 1/2 Fay & Scott lathes in the 14x40 range, a Canadian Forge and Blower camel back drill press and a whole lot of miscellaneous tooling, chucks, drills, jack shafts, motors and other assorted iron bits and pieces. The old F250 was getting a workout bringing this home.

I'm in Information Technology (professional bit pusher) although I've had a love of metalworking since an ill advised shop class choice in the late 1980's exposed me to a metal lathe and drill press. Also, manual metalworking is about as far away as I can get from computers. No CNC in THIS shop! Also no real plans at this stage other than to rehabilitate the equipment and get it functional. I have a few small project ideas, like making a bushing for the worn out brake pedal pivot on my old motorcycle, swing arm bronze bushings instead of the spongy plastic replacements, etc... That and the ancestral Scot in me comes out in that I'd rather spend money and time on tools, materials and skills rather than parts or ready to assemble flimsy crap.

Anyway, I'll probably be asking questions related to ancient machinery and hopefully get answers that don't include "Buy X from McMaster Carr" who I found out today can't be arsed to ship to Canada....
 

YYCHM

(Craig)
Premium Member
Welcome from Calgary. 30 years bit pushing for me and now retired.
 
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DavidR8

Scrap maker
Administrator
Moderator
Premium Member
Welcome from Vancouver Island.
(McMaster will ship to businesses in Canada... ask me how I know :D )
 

mikoyan31

Stewie
Welcome from Vancouver Island.
(McMaster will ship to businesses in Canada... ask me how I know :D )
Well I'll be.... Tried again this morning using the company name and the office address and they put the order through. Been about 12 hours and they haven't canceled it yet. Thing is, the company isn't one that would ever need anything from a mechanical supplier! :D Thanks for the tip.
 

Thomas

Active Member
If you travel as far south as Saint John try Frank Fales, they have been in business since 1896 and can get you almost anything.
 

mikoyan31

Stewie
If you travel as far south as Saint John try Frank Fales, they have been in business since 1896 and can get you almost anything.
Well I had family in Saint John and I'm originally from Charlotte Co. so I get down a fair bit. I love supporting brick and mortar local businesses, especially ones that have been around forever, but the Mon-Fri, 8am-5pm that all the industrial hardware stores seem to have makes it difficult when you work an office job that is Mon - Fri 8am - 5pm. I'll give them a shot but unless they'll ship or put stuff on the bus, well....
 

LeakyCanoe

Active Member
Fellow new member here extending a welcome. We're cut from a similar cloth as to the appeal of this here rabbit-hole it looks like.
 

Tomc938

Ultra Member
Premium Member
Welcome from Vancouver Island!

Your comment " That and the ancestral Scot in me comes out in that I'd rather spend money and time on tools, materials and skills rather than parts or ready to assemble flimsy crap." reminds me of something Mr. Pete said on his YouTube channel, "Now I know you could buy this for $60 from the store, or you could spend $10,000 of equipment and make it yourself!" (or something like that)
 

Tecnico

(Dave)
Hey there Herring Choker, here's a warm welcome from your neighbor to the south, the Bluenoser!

Nice to see a few more east coasters turn up!

That pickup load will give you something to do through the winter until it's time to get the bike out!

D:cool:
 
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