Newbie- Canadian Newbie

[VicB]

Good evening. My wife just purchased a craftex 13 x 24 for me and I will take delivery shortly. I have not spent a great deal of time using a metal lathe and I am looking for an introduction vidio to give me the basics before I kill myself. I would like to know what cutters to purchase.

VicB

[cyclestart]

And the Canadian membership goes up by one !

I'm not familiar with Craftex. Is it possibly a lathe ? Nice size.

LittleMachineShop has videos and tools. They target benchtop and smaller type machines. They treat Canadians very well, better than many other suppliers, and work hard to reduce your shipping costs. Parcels from them seem to slide right through customs in my experience. Maybe just a coincidence, or maybe they understand customs forms better than some others.

My vendor plug for the day. Honestly, I'm not on their payroll

[drwc]

Welcome, I have a craftex 10 x 18, just purchased, seems good so far, I second the Little Machine shop endorsement

Where are you located in Canada?

Wayne

[VicB]

I am in Brantford, Ontario. I will be setting us the shop for the next few weeks. I am anxious to work on the machine. It was purchased from Busy Bee in London. I went to the store last saturday just to take another look. I looks like a good unit. It is unfortunate that we cannot compete in the mnufacture of such machines here in Canada. I firmly believe that we could produce a good quality machine if only the world would stop buying out of our country we would be in better shape.

Vic

[ihavenofish]

Originally Posted by VicB I am in Brantford, Ontario. I will be setting us the shop for the next few weeks. I am anxious to work on the machine. It was purchased from Busy Bee in London. I went to the store last saturday just to take another look. I looks like a good unit. It is unfortunate that we cannot compete in the mnufacture of such machines here in Canada. I firmly believe that we could produce a good quality machine if only the world would stop buying out of our country we would be in better shape. Vic

a haas dealer once told me that many of the base frame castings were made in canada, but thats on $25000+ machines.

i dont think it possible to make the castings cheap enough here for the budget machines. insurance to run a foundry here probably costs more than the entire cost of casting in china.