Re: Annual $220 Group fee.
Hi Eugene
That's a very generous offer to make but best hold on until we hear back from Martin as to how the payments he has made have been funded.
I hope he will reply in the next day or so, but I believe he sometimes is away for a few days so we have to be patient.
Marcus
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Re: Annual $220 Group fee.
If the annual fee has not yet been paid, I would like to pick up the tab.
If the annual fee has been paid so as to render us current, I'd like to reimburse the person who paid the fee. ?I'm superannuated and have never used my SL/DB (being too ignorant of its operation), but I've thoroughly enjoyed the commentaries from those of you who have mastered the little lathe.
Thank you.
Eugene V. Lenarz
On Saturday, November 6, 2021, 10:55:42 AM CDT, Jkle379184 via groups.io <jkle379184@...> wrote:
Keep us posted on what you find out. I have no problem donating some money to keep this group going. Will we still be using Paypal?
?Jeff
-----Original Message-----
From: Emgee Radian <xpylonracer@...>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sat, Nov 6, 2021 10:40 am
Subject: [Special] [Unimat] Annual $220 Group fee.
Hello all members
I wish to advise you that the annual $220 group fee has been paid by Martin.
I have emailed Martin to enquire if he funded this personally or were there sufficient funds over from any previous appeal,
I await his reply but we can't expect Martin to fund members benefits so I may be requesting donations to cover the annual fees.
This is the 3rd year Martin has paid the fee and I am not aware of any appeal to members last year to help fund the cost so?
this may be the second year Martin has stood the cost, that cannot be allowed to continue, it's not what members expect.
Do nothing until the facts are known.
Marcus
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Re: I think I might be in!
Good to see you made it! I'm pleased my pestering has paid off, but it turned out to be just a matter of getting through to the right person, and that was done by others.
Now that the problem is known we'll see what the Administrators can do to keep things running smoothly in future. I'm sure Marcus is working on it.
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Re: Annual $220 Group fee.
Keep us posted on what you find out. I have no problem donating some money to keep this group going. Will we still be using Paypal?
?Jeff
-----Original Message-----
From: Emgee Radian <xpylonracer@...>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sat, Nov 6, 2021 10:40 am
Subject: [Special] [Unimat] Annual $220 Group fee.
Hello all members
I wish to advise you that the annual $220 group fee has been paid by Martin.
I have emailed Martin to enquire if he funded this personally or were there sufficient funds over from any previous appeal,
I await his reply but we can't expect Martin to fund members benefits so I may be requesting donations to cover the annual fees.
This is the 3rd year Martin has paid the fee and I am not aware of any appeal to members last year to help fund the cost so?
this may be the second year Martin has stood the cost, that cannot be allowed to continue, it's not what members expect.
Do nothing until the facts are known.
Marcus
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Hello all members
I wish to advise you that the annual $220 group fee has been paid by Martin.
I have emailed Martin to enquire if he funded this personally or were there sufficient funds over from any previous appeal,
I await his reply but we can't expect Martin to fund members benefits so I may be requesting donations to cover the annual fees.
This is the 3rd year Martin has paid the fee and I am not aware of any appeal to members last year to help fund the cost so?
this may be the second year Martin has stood the cost, that cannot be allowed to continue, it's not what members expect.
Do nothing until the facts are known.
Marcus
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Re: How to contact Group Owner?
Hi Frederico
You were approved for membership back in July which is the reason you were able to post pictures in the Photo section.
Looking forward to your input to the Group.
Marcus
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Re: I think I might be in!
Hi Ian
You have been a member since?16/09/09 with your current email address, before that time you were a member using a different email address from
which you have never posted as it is still set to Moderate all messages.
To save future confusion it may be a good idea for you to delete that old account.
Now you are in the community we look forward to your input.
Marcus
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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
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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.?
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Re: How to contact Group Owner?
Hi Neil
No he is not an owner or moderator.
Marcus
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Re: How to contact Group Owner?
BTW, I thought?birkyguy AT . was the owner but his email is bouncing too.
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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
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
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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
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Re: How to contact Group Owner?
Good afternoon, ? 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. ? Looking through the records it appears that Martin Pinckney is indeed the owner of the group. ? 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. ? Does anyone know if he is ok? ? As an aside, GIO say they are too busy to answer any communications from anyone except group owners. ? kindest regards, ? David Swift ? Sent from for Windows ?
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From: Keith S. AngusSent: Wednesday, November 3, 2021 2:11 PM To: Bill in OKC too; [email protected]Subject: Re: [Unimat] How to contact Group Owner? ? 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?
Good morning Keith, ? I too have been trying to join this group for a couple of months, and have my first post stuck at New Member Moderated. ? I also have had no response whatever to various attempts to contact anybody. ? kindest regards, ? David Swift ? Sent from for Windows ?
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From: Keith S. AngusSent: Wednesday, November 3, 2021 12:37 AM To: [email protected]Subject: [Unimat] How to contact Group Owner? ? 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: ?
Why do I need a 5th lathe? It's a sickness! ;)?
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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.
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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
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
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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: ?
Why do I need a 5th lathe? It's a sickness! ;)?
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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
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