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The 2026 Calgary Area Meetup is set for Saturday May 30th at 10am. The signup thread is here! Robinhood has graciously offered to host the meetup again this year. Please note that you MUST RSVP to the notice linked above if you wish to come.
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slow-poke posted the thread Indexable carbide countersink in Looking for Answers? We're here to help!.Curious if anyone is using one? Results compared to conventional countersink? Brand? Anyone using aliexpress style? -
This is such a GREAT THREAD! More solid gold! I love it! I've been wanting to make a better indicator clamp myself. The retail stuff... -
Here is my vertical chuck Spindexer. A lot of my work seems to be fiddly small so I wanted something to mount my 3" chucks & rapid to... -
Not all of us have the luxury of a knee mill! ;) With the VFD on my round column mill, I can get the RPMs down to a crawl (say 20% of...
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I'm making Mr. Hall's Fine Adjust arm. It needs to clamp to am arm on one end using his swivel bracket. Best picture I have is...
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Boy, lotta GREAT suggestions @trlvn! I REALLY like @gerritv idea of making a D-BIT! I would never have thought of that!
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I would have made the d-bit cutter. :-) No teeth as such, and used as a reamer, by hand in the chuck/spindle. Harold is seldom wrong.
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Susquatch replied to the thread Shop T-nuts.If you make a whole strip of nuts all at once using an appropriate size bar, it's a lot faster. Just make one very long T-nut, drill and... -
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Susquatch replied to the thread Tool Vertical Spindexer.Holy Crap Peter! I love it! FIRST THING I NOTICED is a Gerardi style vise! Is that a Clone like @RobinHood's or did you find one...
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DNot a very exciting project. I just happened to notice (several years after the fact :/ ) the M10 T-nuts I'm using for my Bison vise...
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Susquatch replied to the thread Tapered counterbores.This is such a GREAT THREAD! More solid gold! I love it! I've been wanting to make a better indicator clamp myself. The retail stuff...
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I'm making Mr. Hall's Fine Adjust arm. It needs to clamp to am arm on one end using his swivel bracket. Best picture I have is...
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trlvn replied to the thread Tapered counterbores.Not all of us have the luxury of a knee mill! ;) With the VFD on my round column mill, I can get the RPMs down to a crawl (say 20% of... -
trlvn replied to the thread Tapered counterbores.I'm making Mr. Hall's Fine Adjust arm. It needs to clamp to am arm on one end using his swivel bracket. Best picture I have is...
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Susquatch replied to the thread Tapered counterbores.Boy, lotta GREAT suggestions @trlvn! I REALLY like @gerritv idea of making a D-BIT! I would never have thought of that!
