• 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!

Another new Vancouver guy

Hi all. It's nice to find a Canadian based forum. Not that I don't like the international flavours but often we have our own issues as well as parts and material sources. And since our stuff tends towards the heavy side, that can be handy.

I'm retired now but back in the "old days", my favourite class in high school was metal working. I resumed that in the basement about 15+ years ago and soon got into bench top CNC. It started with Sherline mill. That mill got modified and expanded so much that there are only one or two Sherline parts remaining. Since metal takes too much of my patience to finish some days, I built 2 CNC routers of my own design for wood projects. If anyone reads Digital Machinist Magazine, the last few issues have my last CNC router build in it.

I always have several projects on the go which typically bounce back and forth between wooden clocks and small stirling engines, and one I.C. engine. I also wanted a small precision lathe but couldn't find one to suit so I made one ( still a work in progress but technically functional.)
 
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