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Thanks for the tips Tom. I'm located near Regina. I'll have to wait and see what price he comes back at. I'm in no rush and can...

Look at all that CAD you did. Lots of good experience and practice there. Good posts and I like your screenshots. Can we see your...

Wow. No comments at all? If this were the Machinist page on Facebook, I'd have 149 highly opinionated remarks, 17 put-downs, 6 guys...

So now that I can drill it's on to actual 3D milling. I modeled up this blue thing as a test part. It isn't anything really just a few...

So after mucking about with configuration in Mach 3 I finally got it drilling. Amazing.... 36 1/4" holes for no particular reason. Half...

Started working on the Z axis automation finally... I needed gears to work with the 8mm toothed timing autobelt. Naively just did some...

Thanks for the tips Tom. I'm located near Regina. I'll have to wait and see what price he comes back at. I'm in no rush and can...

I thought it looked pretty good but no pics and it was kind of buried in the corner of the shop. If I go back I'll try to get one. Dan

What's the brake look like? Got pics?

Shapers can be a versatile machine tool. I used one for bending millions of pieces of stainless wire (3/32" to 3/8") when I made...

Shapers can be a versatile machine tool. I used one for bending millions of pieces of stainless wire (3/32" to 3/8") when I made...

Pricing is heavily dependant on machine condition. Through I can tell you that unless it includes diamonds 8k is too much. Atlas lathe...

I have never bid on anything from a government auction. What is it like to get the item shipped to you? Do they help you with...

Thanks Craig. I have a bad feeling he is going to come back with some unrealistic price but I guess we'll see. He wants to sell the...

I'm so ashamed... after all this talk of making my own sine plate, investigating different designs, drawing up CAD models, and even...