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  • Several Regions have held meetups already, but others are being planned or are evaluating the interest. The Ontario GTA West area meetup is planned for Saturday April 26th at Greasemonkeys shop in Aylmer Ontario. If you are interested and haven’t signed up yet, click 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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    New member from eastern Ontario

    Welcome from Hamilton ON!
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    Dan Gelbart posts unusual shop tricks

    Been there done that! The dehumidifier will not take the humidity down to 40% ever! Maybe 55% if I'm lucky! All the dehumidifier accomplishes is a big electricity bill. And here's the kicker. My steel tools actually rust far less in my humid basement than in my garage where humidity is usually...
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    Dan Gelbart posts unusual shop tricks

    I have a very old house. The outer basement walls have relatively new waterproofing but the floor remains damp. The concrete in the floor is so old it seems to have become porous and I think the water table is close to the basement floor. The house is so old it doesn't really warrant expensive...
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    Dan Gelbart posts unusual shop tricks

    In my case I think my basement is a little damp and it doesn't matter how hard I crank the dehumidifier the humidity barely drops. If it drops its only because it makes the temperature go up a little. All I really accomplish by running a dehumidifier is getting myself a big electricity bill. I...
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    Dan Gelbart posts unusual shop tricks

    I would bet there are lots of hobby shop situations where maintaining proper temperatures and/or humidity will be prohibitive. Thats the case in my shops so one of the projects I have lined up for this summer is to nickel electroplate a number of my machine parts. I'll see how that goes.
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    Dan Gelbart posts unusual shop tricks

    Dan Gelbart must be my favorite YouTuber! I already knew the spot welding aluminum trick and should have known the point about keeping acids in the shop. A good reminder! I'll have to find a better place to store my acids!!! By the way Sodium Hydroxide or NaOH can be obtained at candle makers...
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    Look! A MOAV!! (mother of all vices)

    "Mother of all vices"! Geez!!! I was expecting something completely different!!! Presumably you meant "Mother of all vises"? :rolleyes:
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    Telescope secondary mirror support system

    Ya, and whats more, in another 5 billion years the Andromeda galaxy will collide with ours! I built my own 6 inch Newtonian way back when I was in my teens. It was pretty crude but the main mirror was pretty good. Always wanted to get into astrophotography because you can see so much more with...
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    Product Cordless tools

    I have a deep dislike of most things with a battery. Mostly because the batteries are usually dead when I need the tool and I find the distraction of having to solve that problem extremely annoying. I like to work with spontaneity and not have to wait for hours to charge batteries. Keeping...
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    Machine keith Rucker's 10ee conversion

    The surface speed of the workpiece changes as the diameter changes under constant rpm. In order to maintain the same surface speed at different workpiece diameters for cutting tool effiiciency the rpm has to change. You want to maintain the same power as the rpm changes so the torque has to...
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    Tools of the Trades, Oct 6, 2024, Pickering Ontario

    Dam!!! Wish I could have been there!!! You guys all Suck!!! I'll get my own in by showing what I found last weekend. @trlvn kindly gave me a ride to The Rodmasters swap meet last Sunday at the Ancaster fair grounds. It was recommended as a place to find machinist tools so naturally we had to...
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    Tools of the Trades, Oct 6, 2024, Pickering Ontario

    Sounds like a fun outing but I'm not driving anymore and Pickering is the wrong side of TO for me anyway.
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    Small Hole gauges….

    Get a Starrett 269A & B on Ebay. I got mine a couple of years ago for about $50 a piece.
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    The hypocrisy and unfairness in schooling

    One of my favourite true stories about a child prodigy was about a kid who was born with a severe case of autism. (His story was somewhere on TED talks but I've lost the link now.) Initially the experts thought nothing would ever come of him. His case was too severe. They put him in an...
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    The hypocrisy and unfairness in schooling

    Well in the case of these two life stories I think the difference between success and failure are far more clear cut than you imagine. In one case the kid turned his entire neighbourhood into a critically radioactive zone, went to jail for it, and ended up in a low level job in the military. In...
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