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jbrownslms

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Hi guys, just joined up a couple hours ago, I am a heavy equipment operator by profession but am an aspiring hobby machinist. I currently have a small milling machine, and I am hoping to locate a lathe soon so I can start building scale marine steam engines just to start. Its nice to finally find a site with guys that are fairly close to me I am in b.c.

Jamie
 
Hey welcome to the form Jamie. Have you spent much time running your mill yet? What model is your machine?
 
first a mill, then lathe, then a lot of tooling, metal, more metal, band saw, welding .... it never ends.. :>
Welcome to the forum!
 
Hi Alex if I may or do you prefer alexander? I have spent a few hours on the dials, mostly building the what ever projects and also just making chips For practice. My mill is an old husky 6x26 knee mill. I totally rebuilt it except for the paint I kinda like the patina.
 
Hi janger thank you for the welcome, unfortunately tooling is not what im short of I have purchased a couple of old machinists tool boxes and have ended up with enough tooling to last a life time
 
I always go by Alex. It wouldn't let me use a name that short when I signed up. Alexander is my full name though so I'm not picky.
 
Here is my mill
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Thanks Alex, it gets me by. Once I build my big shop I will probably upgrade to a bridgeport or something a little better, power feeds etc. My shop is a little crowded right now as I am restoring a car to
 
Nice Mill! It's actually a large step up from what I have been using, you'll be fine, haha.

Where about in BC are you? (If you don't mind me asking.)

Glad you found the forum,

jbrownslms said:
Its nice to finally find a site with guys that are fairly close to me I am in b.c.
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Yeah, I was hunting for a Canadian centric forum for awhile before this site existed too. How did you find us anyways?
 
Jwest7788 said:
Nice Mill! It's actually a large step up from what I have been using, you'll be fine, haha.

Where about in BC are you? (If you don't mind me asking.)

Glad you found the forum,


Yeah, I was hunting for a Canadian centric forum for awhile before this site existed too. How did you find us anyways?
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I found the site on practical machinist. Im in kamloops, about 6 hours away
 
I put up a reference to us on practical machinist....
@Jwest7788 Josh, I think you have a hobbymachinist . Com acct? Maybe put up something if you haven't already...
 
Janger said:
I put up a reference to us on practical machinist....
@Jwest7788 Josh, I think you have a hobbymachinist . Com acct? Maybe put up something if you haven't already...
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I often think about this, but have been weary of moving forward on it. I feel kind of at a conflict of interest or something. Maybe I'll take the dive today, haha.
 
jbrownslms said:
Hi guys, just joined up a couple hours ago, I am a heavy equipment operator by profession but am an aspiring hobby machinist. I currently have a small milling machine, and I am hoping to locate a lathe soon so I can start building scale marine steam engines just to start. Its nice to finally find a site with guys that are fairly close to me I am in b.c.

Jamie
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Welcome aboard Alex.
 
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