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  • Several Regions have held meetups already, but others are being planned or are evaluating the interest. The Calgary Area Meetup is set for Saturday July 12th at 10am. The signup thread is here! Arbutus has also explored interest in a Fraser Valley meetup but it seems members either missed his thread or had other plans. Let him know if you are interested in a meetup later in the year by posting here! Slowpoke is trying to pull together an Ottawa area meetup later this summer. No date has been selected yet, so let him know if you are interested here! We are not aware of any other meetups being planned this year. If you are interested in doing something in your area, let everyone know and make it happen! Meetups are a great way to make new machining friends and get hands on help in your area. Don’t be shy, sign up and come, or plan your own meetup!

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    Tips/Techniques LEGAL non harming booby traps for thieves

    A common suggestion has been for me to buy Ryobi instead of Milwaukee But even with what they stole I still have way too many Milwaukee tools/batteries to switch. I’m quite stuck in the system. I did do some shopping today.
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    Tips/Techniques LEGAL non harming booby traps for thieves

    It is a clearly marked truck that goes to the same location every day though. I’m going to have to do something different. I really do not want this to happen again.
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    Tips/Techniques LEGAL non harming booby traps for thieves

    It’s not the cops that decide that. It’s the prosecution, lawyers. I spoke with an officer that I’ve dealt with a few times when I went to do the report for my stuff. It’s not a lack of want on their end. It’s the courts decision who gets let out, and who stays in. Who gets prosecuted, and who...
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    Tips/Techniques LEGAL non harming booby traps for thieves

    I don’t know. I’m part of the team at a locally owned good sized electrical contractor. Our vehicles are…. Recognizable. We have quite a few guys. All the trucks are nice and well tooled. We are well known in the community. It’s very obviously an electrical truck. I have thought about...
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    Tips/Techniques LEGAL non harming booby traps for thieves

    Honestly, the shop…. What are they gonna do… carry out the lathe? I guess they could grab both welders and that would suck more. My wife and I are on a waitlist for a Rott from good lines. GSD’s are hairy beasts. Good dogs though.
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    Tips/Techniques LEGAL non harming booby traps for thieves

    Ya Milwaukee cordless stuff.
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    Tips/Techniques LEGAL non harming booby traps for thieves

    Parking inside is not an option due to you guys convincing me to get into machining. My work truck is actually too big to fit in the garage anyway, even if it was empty. Long box, crew cab, F350 with a big service topper. The motion sensitive pager would be sweet actually. If it’s only one...
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    Tips/Techniques LEGAL non harming booby traps for thieves

    Post your ideas. My work truck got raided. 3500$ gone. Doors were locked. Cameras didn’t help. I’m pissed. Horn and strobe?
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    FreeCad BOM?

    This fellow seems to do it in this YouTube video, not sure your feelings on video learnings there old chap. There is according to the documentation a BoM generator within the assembly workbench. I’ve never used it.
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    Machine Band saw problem

    The bottom hole on there I’m pointing at has an Allen head set screw. The middle bolt is the axle bolt I talked about. You can mess with those to change the angle and position of the idler wheel. I angle it slightly “in” so that it keeps the blade on if you know what I mean. Pain in the butt.
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    Machine Band saw problem

    The idler wheels have a bolt / Allen set screw that adjusts the cant on the wheel. The axle bolt and the set screw I’m talking about are used to align the idler with the driven wheel which is fixed. The idler wheel can be adjusted in and out by loosening/tightening both the axle bolt and the...
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    Swagelok Benchtop Bender + 1” Swager

    This thing is sold. Not on here, but gone. Thanks!
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    Product Feature packed, accurate and safe DMM

    Also: a bunch of guys at my company have bought these as well. Zero problems with them over I think 2 or 3 years now? And by guys I mean professional industrial/agricultural service electricians that beat them up and use them every day. On 480v gear / VFD’s / agricultural + irrigation +...
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    Product Feature packed, accurate and safe DMM

    I’ve been recommending Brymen multimeters to anyone that would listen for a couple years. Somewhere there is a thread on here that is “Brymen meters” that I started for that purpose. I have two Brymen clamp meters (BM079 600v cat 3 w/ phase rotation and fine res amp clamp (this is now my...
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    Hello from beautiful Alberta

    Welcome from corn country, AB.
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