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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!

Recent content by Downwindtracker2

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    Tips/Techniques Workshop Organization- things that have made a difference for you

    My pail collect has gained enough heavy stuff that lifting is out of the question. Even sliding them around is a struggle. I wish had kept more metal pails. Considering the state of my workshop, that is the most I can offer to this subject.
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    Guy Lautard

    We are running out of contemporaries .Sad about Guy, his first two books are some what available.
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    Bitter/Sweet New Truck

    One of the carpenters I worked with liked used International trucks, tough and so much cheaper than Fords or Chevys .
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    Tool Depth Micrometer - which one

    I think that a depth mic is a necessity with a mill. But that's just me. The first one I bought was a Chinese one, I forgot who branded it, but it wasn't a no-name cheapy. The rods popped in and out. This didn't seem to me all that precise, so when KBC put Mitutoyo on sale , I bought one. It...
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    Proud to be Canadian song

    For half my high school I went to a Catholic Boys day school taught by the I Christian Brothers of Ireland. Some of the brothers were American in those days. Brother Dalton , an American phrased it best, "In theory Americans have more freedoms , in practice, Canadians have more freedoms. "...
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    Proud to be Canadian song

    Canadian content has been a question we have asked ourselves for as long as I can remember, and that's 65 years of reading the newspaper. Which I no longer do, there is nothing in it anymore. . Downwindtracker, my nom de plume comes from that even. We'll muddle along as always. American Women...
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    Care Not Speed

    I disliked school, but some subjects interested me like history. The history teacher's voice was a perfect pitch to put me to sleep, within 5 minutes I was sound a sleep. He let me sleep because I always got the second highest mark, the guy who beat me got a Rhodes scholarship . But point of the...
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    What socket does this take?

    Stahlwille and Hazet both make them. I have Snap-on but it's no where near the quality of the German one, and was more expensive..I used the male versions. A more inexpensive source is Amazon Germany. BTW In metric, allenhead cap screws can be any grade, so they use XZN for hi grade.
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    Care Not Speed

    "Aw, if he needs something, he'll just invent it"No big deal, it's what millwrights do.
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    Tips/Techniques Deck structural question - simple

    People have been injured when their sundecks collapsed during a party. I started out as a carpenter,Red Seal and all that, so I had a chuckle when it was on the news.
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    Care Not Speed

    Exams that are multiple choice fellow a pattern , of the four answers, one is wrong, two are correct and one is the best answer. Trevj, that engineer was a Brazilian .He had degrees in both electrical and mechanical engineering. His English wasn't the great but it was better than my non...
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    Care Not Speed

    My dad had a saying "An engineer with common sense could write his own ticket . " All my working life I have been around engineers, my Dad was right. I was lucky, I could write exams. Which was good considering my study habits.
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    If you could own just one special vehicle what would it look like?

    I respect front wheel drive cars, My first was '71 Simca 1204, a truly great car BTW, but it was only a car. That's why I got a bush pig .I did a lot of hiking and back packing in those days and trailheads were down logging roads. With your fancy SUV all you have to do is miss the angle on a...
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    If you could own just one special vehicle what would it look like?

    I have been driving 4x4 since '74, I had the last of the bush pig Dodges. For some places, a good off road vehicle you need ground clearance, something with a step down axle like a Unimog sort of thing . . But the problem with that ground clearance leaves you with high center of gravity...
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    If you could own just one special vehicle what would it look like?

    The kid across the street from my parent's place had something like 20 some cars over time from a Shelby to Landrovers.He, fixed, bought and sold. At the time I still lived with my parents. it saved on entanglements . But his favourite was the MGA, It wasn't fast but it was fun to drive.
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