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I think I might be in!

 

Hello, Ian here. I was the one who wrote to Keith (thank you so much, Keith) as a desperate attempt to be able to post on here.

And also a huge thanks to all the others who contributed to help to resolve the issues and, of course, to Marcus.

Having received a message directly from Marcus to join again, I found that the entry page recognised my email address so I just changed my password and I may be in.

Ian


Re: How to contact Group Owner?

 

Hello I subscribed the group about one year ago but??I was unable to joint the discussion for this problem. I hope now to be part of the community.
Best, Federico.?


Re: How to contact Group Owner?

 

Hi Neil

No he is not an owner or moderator.

Marcus


Re: How to contact Group Owner?

 

BTW, I thought?birkyguy AT . was the owner but his email is bouncing too.

FWIW

Neil
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Re: How to contact Group Owner?

 

I run a few (very quiet) groups here so you can add me as a backup too for worst case scenarios if you wish?

Neil

On Fri., Nov. 5, 2021, 17:15 Emgee Radian, <xpylonracer@...> wrote:
Hello again to all members

This evening I received an email from a new member whose application to join the group had not been authorised, this really is a cause for concern as reading the
posts it seems he is not alone in this situation, all I can do is apologise to those concerned and try to contact Martin to find out what his current situation is.

There are no posts awaiting moderation so if you have applied to join and have not been added to the group if you apply again I will as Joint Owner moderate your message.

I am owner of several iO groups and check in at least twice a day to view my groups, I had noticed on several occasions messages were awaiting moderation on this group but
that is true for any fairly active group whose membership is growing so didn't look in.
Since I appointed Martin as co-owner I have had my messages from this group set to Special Notices only so had not been aware of any problem, I will change my settings
to receive all messages for the immediate future.

It is only fair to await Martins reply before taking any other action such as appointing Moderators or Joint Owners, however that may have to be considered as I don't want to be
fully active on this group for health reasons.

Regards, Marcus


Re: How to contact Group Owner?

 

Hello again to all members

This evening I received an email from a new member whose application to join the group had not been authorised, this really is a cause for concern as reading the
posts it seems he is not alone in this situation, all I can do is apologise to those concerned and try to contact Martin to find out what his current situation is.

There are no posts awaiting moderation so if you have applied to join and have not been added to the group if you apply again I will as Joint Owner moderate your message.

I am owner of several iO groups and check in at least twice a day to view my groups, I had noticed on several occasions messages were awaiting moderation on this group but
that is true for any fairly active group whose membership is growing so didn't look in.
Since I appointed Martin as co-owner I have had my messages from this group set to Special Notices only so had not been aware of any problem, I will change my settings
to receive all messages for the immediate future.

It is only fair to await Martins reply before taking any other action such as appointing Moderators or Joint Owners, however that may have to be considered as I don't want to be
fully active on this group for health reasons.

Regards, Marcus


Re: How to contact Group Owner?

 

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Good afternoon,

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I too have been trying to join this group for a couple of months without success, my first post is still at New Member Moderated.

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Looking through the records it appears that Martin Pinckney is indeed the owner of the group.

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His last active post was April the second this year. I do not know Martin and have never conversed with him but I find that very concerning.

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Does anyone know if he is ok?

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As an aside, GIO say they are too busy to answer any communications from anyone except group owners.

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kindest regards,

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David Swift

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Sent from for Windows

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From: Keith S. Angus
Sent: Wednesday, November 3, 2021 2:11 PM
To: Bill in OKC too; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Unimat] How to contact Group Owner?

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I now have three contacts with the same problem. The third may have given a clue: he is trying to use this group via the old Yahoo group. I don't know if that group even exists any more or how much access it gives to Groups IO. I will look into this further with them. I think the simplest answer is for them to start again with this group and forget about Yahoo.

However, this does not explain why I got no reply when I emailed our Group Owner.

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Re: How to contact Group Owner?

 

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Good morning Keith,

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I too have been trying to join this group for a couple of months, and have my first post stuck at New Member Moderated.

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I also have had no response whatever to various attempts to contact anybody.

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kindest regards,

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David Swift

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Sent from for Windows

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From: Keith S. Angus
Sent: Wednesday, November 3, 2021 12:37 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Unimat] How to contact Group Owner?

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I've had an email from Ian Adam, who was on the old Yahoo Group years ago, and has now got back in contact. He has successfully signed in, but if he tries to send a message it gets stopped for approval by the admin, but that never happens. This has been going on for months. I relayed a message to the Group Owner, but that has not generated a reply to either of us, or any other action.

Who is the group owner, and how do we contact him/her? How many other would-be members of this group are in the same situation?

Of course it is possible, in light of recent events, that the Owner is no longer around - so then what happens?

If anyone else is similarly stuck please contact me direct. I'm not in a very good position to deal with this, but I'll try.

Does anyone know who the group owner is and how to make contact other than through the Group links?

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Re: How to contact Group Owner?

 

Wow, I only have 3 lathes, although I'd like to get a small native metric machine for threading.? I'd like to say that I don't have the disease, but then I'd have to ignore my collection of oscilloscopes (Mostly Tek, numbering around 70)

-Dave?

On Friday, November 5, 2021, 06:28:02 AM PDT, Neil Morrison <neilsmorr@...> wrote:


The sixth lathe is the one where you know you have enough. Don't ask me how I know.

Neil


On Fri., Nov. 5, 2021, 06:11 Bill in OKC too via , <wmrmeyers=[email protected]> wrote:
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Why do I need a 5th lathe? It's a sickness! ;)?


Re: How to contact Group Owner?

 

Before the Yahoo group shut down and before switching to groups.io, I downloaded all of the posts and pictures in case the group did not change over. But a lot of water has gone under the bridge since then. Do I still have it all, maybe?
Peter B, in a very wet part of rainy Florida.


Re: New video on Youtube, "Disassembling the Unimat DL mini lathe"

 

This will be fun to follow.

I'd recommend buying some soft metal drift rods and a socket set, and cleaning as much gunk from shafts before driving them thru a casting though. I was cringing when he mentioned "the ends of this shaft and mushroomed or burred making it difficult to drive it off " --- and then kept tapping!!

John


On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 9:06 AM Tamra <tamrabrogdon@...> wrote:
Juan - thanks for pointing this out... I think I may need the assembling the unimat instead!

That will be a good project for tonite... dis-assembling and re-assembling and doing some maintenance
with oil / grease...I will get my manual out...


Tamra


Re: How to contact Group Owner?

 

The sixth lathe is the one where you know you have enough. Don't ask me how I know.

Neil


On Fri., Nov. 5, 2021, 06:11 Bill in OKC too via , <wmrmeyers=[email protected]> wrote:
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Why do I need a 5th lathe? It's a sickness! ;)?


Re: How to contact Group Owner?

Kevin Groenke @ PersonMakeObject
 

Has anybody tried emailing xpylonracer@...??

They are an owner and were active in GIO as recently as late October, but it doesn't seem that they are engaged with this particular group.?

There are 3 owners of that group.??has been active on Groups.io as of at least late October.

Kevin Groenke
human of planet earth

On Fri, Nov 5, 2021, 8:21 AM Kevin Groenke <groen004@...> wrote:
According to GIO support response to my query, the premium subscription renewal was paid 2 days ago.?

mdupreno1@... is paying for the group, which renewed 2 days ago

Kevin Groenke
human of planet earth

On Fri, Nov 5, 2021, 8:11 AM Bill in OKC too via <wmrmeyers=[email protected]> wrote:
I believe they have already been paid, but have no way to actually tell. If I'm going to be a moderator, it hasn't happened yet, so don't have access to the Admin page.?

I am working a deal whereby I may actually get a Unimat SL, which would be cool as heck, but that's going to take some time, too. At least then, I'd have real reason to be a member of this group. I joined because a) I have wanted a Unimat for a long time, and b) because techniques that work on a small lathe will work on just about any lathe. The first lathe I actually laid my hands on after a 1 semester class in high school, long ago, was a Harbor Freight 7x10. Compared to the Unimats, they're a giant, but compared to the sorts of lathes you find in a real machine shop, they're still tiny.

Since I got that 7x lathe, I've also acquired a few others. I got an Atlas TH42 (10x24) lathe in good working order, and a South Bend Heavy 10L restoration project that led a hard life, and that I'm working on fixing. And my brother bought me a Smithy CB-1220XL 3-in-1 machine that I'm in the middle of getting back in running order. I also started another class in machining. Over 6 years ago. Not quite finished, but I've only been going part time for most of that time. The classroom lathes make my 10L look like a small lathe, and it weighs over 1000 pounds.?

Why do I need a 5th lathe? It's a sickness! ;) Somewhere here I have a photo of a 9mm Lugar barrel that Mert Baker made on his Unimat. I want to be able to do stuff like that! While you can use the same techniques on a bigger lathe, it's sometimes harder to do stuff on a small lathe. You have to take shallower cuts, and slower feeds, so things take more time. The bigger lathes will let you brute force it, where the smaller ones take finesse.?

Hi! My name is Bill, and I'm a Toolohaulic!

Bill in OKC


Re: How to contact Group Owner?

Kevin Groenke @ PersonMakeObject
 

According to GIO support response to my query, the premium subscription renewal was paid 2 days ago.?

mdupreno1@... is paying for the group, which renewed 2 days ago

Kevin Groenke
human of planet earth


On Fri, Nov 5, 2021, 8:11 AM Bill in OKC too via <wmrmeyers=[email protected]> wrote:
I believe they have already been paid, but have no way to actually tell. If I'm going to be a moderator, it hasn't happened yet, so don't have access to the Admin page.?

I am working a deal whereby I may actually get a Unimat SL, which would be cool as heck, but that's going to take some time, too. At least then, I'd have real reason to be a member of this group. I joined because a) I have wanted a Unimat for a long time, and b) because techniques that work on a small lathe will work on just about any lathe. The first lathe I actually laid my hands on after a 1 semester class in high school, long ago, was a Harbor Freight 7x10. Compared to the Unimats, they're a giant, but compared to the sorts of lathes you find in a real machine shop, they're still tiny.

Since I got that 7x lathe, I've also acquired a few others. I got an Atlas TH42 (10x24) lathe in good working order, and a South Bend Heavy 10L restoration project that led a hard life, and that I'm working on fixing. And my brother bought me a Smithy CB-1220XL 3-in-1 machine that I'm in the middle of getting back in running order. I also started another class in machining. Over 6 years ago. Not quite finished, but I've only been going part time for most of that time. The classroom lathes make my 10L look like a small lathe, and it weighs over 1000 pounds.?

Why do I need a 5th lathe? It's a sickness! ;) Somewhere here I have a photo of a 9mm Lugar barrel that Mert Baker made on his Unimat. I want to be able to do stuff like that! While you can use the same techniques on a bigger lathe, it's sometimes harder to do stuff on a small lathe. You have to take shallower cuts, and slower feeds, so things take more time. The bigger lathes will let you brute force it, where the smaller ones take finesse.?

Hi! My name is Bill, and I'm a Toolohaulic!

Bill in OKC


Re: How to contact Group Owner?

 

I believe they have already been paid, but have no way to actually tell. If I'm going to be a moderator, it hasn't happened yet, so don't have access to the Admin page.?

I am working a deal whereby I may actually get a Unimat SL, which would be cool as heck, but that's going to take some time, too. At least then, I'd have real reason to be a member of this group. I joined because a) I have wanted a Unimat for a long time, and b) because techniques that work on a small lathe will work on just about any lathe. The first lathe I actually laid my hands on after a 1 semester class in high school, long ago, was a Harbor Freight 7x10. Compared to the Unimats, they're a giant, but compared to the sorts of lathes you find in a real machine shop, they're still tiny.

Since I got that 7x lathe, I've also acquired a few others. I got an Atlas TH42 (10x24) lathe in good working order, and a South Bend Heavy 10L restoration project that led a hard life, and that I'm working on fixing. And my brother bought me a Smithy CB-1220XL 3-in-1 machine that I'm in the middle of getting back in running order. I also started another class in machining. Over 6 years ago. Not quite finished, but I've only been going part time for most of that time. The classroom lathes make my 10L look like a small lathe, and it weighs over 1000 pounds.?

Why do I need a 5th lathe? It's a sickness! ;) Somewhere here I have a photo of a 9mm Lugar barrel that Mert Baker made on his Unimat. I want to be able to do stuff like that! While you can use the same techniques on a bigger lathe, it's sometimes harder to do stuff on a small lathe. You have to take shallower cuts, and slower feeds, so things take more time. The bigger lathes will let you brute force it, where the smaller ones take finesse.?

Hi! My name is Bill, and I'm a Toolohaulic!

Bill in OKC


Re: New video on Youtube, "Disassembling the Unimat DL mini lathe"

 

Juan - thanks for pointing this out... I think I may need the assembling the unimat instead!

That will be a good project for tonite... dis-assembling and re-assembling and doing some maintenance
with oil / grease...I will get my manual out...


Tamra


Re: How to contact Group Owner?

 

I tried to download a backup of data, but I still don't think it has sent me a link and it has been more then 24 hours.? I have no idea what this backup looks like in terms of readable- by- human beings data.? I was running a backup of my stitching group, but one of my co-owners deleted my backup entity and I haven't restored it, but I had groups io delivering the messages to a back up email address, and I just kept them for archival purposes - I should restore that function.

Does anyone want to volunteer to go through the photos and download to the cloud?

What is Marcus' status?? Has anyone been in touch with him?? I don't remember who was the original owner(s) of the Yahoo Group, but I think only an owner could have transferred a group.
xpylonracer@

Using 130 MB for attachments storage
Using 547 MB for photos storage

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Tamra


Re: How to contact Group Owner?

 

On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 01:38 AM, Tamra wrote:
I'm glad to read Martin is b--u-s-y... life happens...This should get us back on track!
Much better than some of the possibilities I was imagining!


Re: How to contact Group Owner?

 

Another hopeful new member has contacted me today, so I think that makes four who are being shut out, but they haven't given up. If it is a quick process, could they be "approved" while the owner problems get sorted?

I think we should have a solution to the problem soon, so can I urge them, and anyone else in the same frustrating position to hang on.

Yes, it does seem we need a number of owners to ensure continuity, and maybe a few spare moderators ready to step in and keep the numbers up.

Due to current health problems I cannot volunteer. Maybe in a while when treatment has finished.


Re: How to contact Group Owner?

 

I'm glad to read Martin is b--u-s-y... life happens...This should get us back on track!

Tamra