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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!

Recent content by DPittman

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    New Member in Tottenham!

    Welcome from the west and southern Alberta.
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    3-ton Dake press $400 Victoria

    Well with the ratchet mechanism you can still likely make it work ok
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    3-ton Dake press $400 Victoria

    Keyway broaches can break if they hit the floor.
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    Herbert Lathe & Camelback Drill $5000 Valemount BC

    Wow that's quite a trip. I've admired Mount Robson from the road and from Kinney lake...and that's as close as I'm ever going to get to in this lifetime. :(
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    Really ?

    What engine does your Avalanche have? I have a 07 Sierra with the 4.8Litre and have not had that problem (yet)
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    Anyone using ChatGTP?

    Yes i occasionally use it both for entertainment and information purposes. I've had it do some calculations for me in the past and recieved wrong answers more than once. I told it was wrong and it agreed and recalculated. Sometimes it got it right but not 100% of the time.
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    Really ?

    And dry at that!
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    Hitch extension

    The hitch transfers some weight of the trailer to the front of the vehicle to make for more stable towing so not all the weight of the tow is on soley the rear of the vehicle.
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    Hitch extension

    No reason you can't make it yourself IF you can weld well. Don't be using a 110 volt mig welder for any hitch components
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    What to do?

    How much you want for it? I'd be interested possibly.
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    CX706 sale price?

    Boy it's hard to say....I'm often surprised by selling prices now....(as in I think they are good from a sellers point). Unlike many things (think autos and rvs) our machinery selling price gets ascertained in part by replacment cost, and retail costs have increased substantially. When I sell...
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    Brand new Metal lathe, $1500, Vita, MB

    True but it is only based on one rating.
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    Hello!

    I don't know if they still have it but Fernie BC used to have a drive thru window for alcohol sales. It was a real novelty for us Alberta boys when we'd go out skiing and o the way back home stop for a pickup of Kokanee. We couldn't get Kokanee at that time in Alberta. Oh the good old days.
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    Car designs suck

    Well that is surprising (well to me at least) it seems to me most "off road" vehicles now really put an emphasis on luxury and car like interiors. I wouldn't pay half the money either for a new Bronco, but I'd pay that same sum for a brand new IH Scout if I could.
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    Hello!

    Hmm we discussed the correct spelling of falutin.....I believe you got it right. Damn it, you're a better machinist AND a speller than me!:mad:
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