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The Father on my Best Man at our wedding was an Old World Engineer, he came to Canada during the depression. He ended up in the Tool and Die Room of GM Oshawa. One of the hobbies to the Tool Room was making knives, usually out of worn-out files or worn-out blades My Friends father also made...

fcheslop Our coffee adventure began when my wife decided to get into the Coffee Vending machine business. This was the best of time and the worst of times. Very tough business, but it was a huge learning process, in so many areas. I suspect this is where my journey into amateur machining began...

goldstar31 It took me a while, Monkey Shoulder, Blended Scotch whisky. OK I can understand. I use my Espresso for much the same purpose, I just add extra chocolate. I just checked our Delivery box, and found my latest Amazon shipment you guessed it my subscription of "Coffee" There is no way I...

I am sure it was just a day pass, like mine. When you get serious about coffee or is that snooty, you get involved in making Espresso. Then you will have friends who can describe how you should or should not grind your coffee, Tamp the grinds. then you have the purists who would never add milk...

Here is hoping you do not grow a extra Left foot to trip over, as a side effect of the ***. ha ha

Are we talking the Grizzly G4003 - 12" x 36" Gear-Head, Cam Lock Spindle, Lathe Very Nice.

Very good answer, you put me in my place, hibernating in my basement. and we do have indoor plumbing, and centra heating and cooling. No reindeer, but we do have coyotes and rabbits even in the city of Edmonton, some have white tailed deer others have the mule deer lots of skunks and a few...

The Term Listening is Generic for the recipient of Communication, be they Verbal, Text or Illustration. No offence intended. I have this type of discussion with my daughter all the time, who is a literalist in the extreme.

goldstar31: Take heart, and know at least you have some leaders, including the Queen, who believe in and had had the ***. Slowly life will return, perhaps not as well once considered normal, but it will be more normal than now. Also you enjoy much warmer weather than we do here in Canada or the...

It appear I am having trouble adding pictures to my report.

OK her is one picture of one of my latest drill bits c/w 4 facet point.

According to my daughter who lives in London she has until COVID-19 and BREXIT been able to do virtually anything and go anywhere, and import or export at will. This all has changed of course. Her in Canada we had for convenience imported much of our requirements from the US. Starting about 3-4...

Yes for the most part, they sat on their respective pallet

Yes for the most part the machines sat on their respective pallets for most of 8 years. I was working as a Contract Courier and was busy working, until July and the Stress of working during COVID-19 and delivering to the Medical Labs and Hospital just wore me out. So I retired. This time I was...

The advantage of the Acute Tool Sharpening system is it relative portability compared to the Quorn, which is a very dedicated unit. With different Plates I could set it up on either my bench grinder or the Tormek. Much more versatile and whith the Gary has the various angle plates set up it...

I have the Eccentric Engineering Acute Tool Sharpening System Kit. Now I have to acquire all the metric tapping drills and the reamers. And you are very correct it is a very nice unit. I have the tormek Drill bit sharpening attachment, which enables me to sharpen my drill to a four facet point...

First off I for the most part do not use Carbide cutters, even though I own a few. The Lathe for the most part I use the Diamond Tool Holder with either HSS or Crobalt tool bits Most of my end mills are HSS and do require sharpening. Similarly my drill bits are HSS and yes I resharpen my drill...

OK More specific Item 1 90 Degree R8 FMB22 Straight Shank Arbor Face End Mill Cutter 4pcs APMT1604 Carbide Inserts Turning Tool Item 2 63mm Face Milling Cutter for Apmt1604 Carbide Insert Both have arrived and visually look quite good I have yet to insert into the Mill and measure the run out...

I bought two new Face Mills for my Mini Mil 1. was from AliExpress c/w R8 arbor 2. Was from Bangoodd with out the R8 arbor 3. Carbide inserts for the common tooling insert of the above items. I was surprised only in that what was indicated as about 3 months delivery was more like 3 weeks. The...

I would like to start a thread based on ordering new tooling etc direct from the manufacturer rather than through a North American Middle man.