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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 Greywynd

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    any here within Calgary have a pressure to force gauge they can rent/lend?

    If you have a hydraulic cylinder and a pressure gauge you can make that work as well. Will still require a little math depending on what you can put together though.
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    Homemade cabbing machine from scrap.

    My brother had all that gear years ago, and my older brother built a slabbing saw for him at the time. It all went to Toronto with my brother while he was living there, and when he passed away suddenly, we had no idea where it was, he hadn’t been speaking to us for a couple years at that point...
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    Board game talk

    We play a lot of games, sequence, skipbo, crib and yahtzee being common if it’s just the two of us. If it works that we have four players we’ll play euchre. (And would be interested in the 6 player rules.) Others are spoons, president (asshole), milles borne, a card/board game we call peggy...
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    Peavey Mart Closing

    Well, I used to frequent the TSC in Peterborough before moving west. The first few years it was almost a go to, hardware was quick, easy and cheap by the pound, stock was good. The staff were friendly and service oriented. On the occasion they had no stock on an item, rain checks were issued and...
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    Shop Flooring Materials

    Have concrete in mine, and in front of the mill where I do most of my standing, I have a chunk of used conveyor belt, likely about 3x5’. At the last place I also had some of the OSB ‘tiles’ with SM on the bottom. Helped take the chill off of a cold concrete floor, the wood mostly resisted chips...
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    Tool Picked up a Vintage Starrett Inside Micrometer set

    Just dawned on me, I still have a gage block to mail to you. And….I may have some inside mic parts. Just got back to Fort Mac tonight, here til mid Feb. Poke me and remind me in a couple weeks and I’ll see if or what I have.
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    Line boring

    We had 4 hydrailulic units driving four bars most of the last couple weeks. And also had some portable milling happening, sorry, no shareable pics on that one.
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    CA-ON Decent Drill Bits?

    Been years since i bought a drill, and other than maybe some specialty use, I can’t forsee needing to buy one for a long time to come. Between places I’ve worked, and buying batches of tools that included drills and cutting tools, and different stuff I’ve been given/inherited, my supply is...
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    Fundamentals of machine tools

    I think that was one of the texts I’ve used, likely during my apprenticeship schooling if I’m thinking right.
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    Peavey Mart Closing

    When I was still in Ontario, gas companies would sell under 100cf, over that and it was lease only.
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    More age related implements

    Looks good! Sounds like the taters did well last year for you.
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    Tool Christmas Tools

    My awol package finally showed up New Year’s Eve, a pair of carbide tooth blades for the saw, a 1” endmill with 5/8” weldon shank for my small portable mill, and a 1/4” wide, 5” diameter milling cutter for some future projects. Can’t argue with the price I paid, got everything from a surplus...
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    New to me RF 45 ..... In the shop

    Like everything in the world of electronics these days, it can be as simple or as complex as one wants to make it. The Hydmech saw I just got, is 575v three phase. So is a surface grinder that I have. In both cases, easy/quick on and off doesn’t matter much to me. So I have a 240V single phase...
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    Tool Christmas Tools

    These showed up today. There’s another package somewhere that seems to be awol, will see when that shows up, and more stuff about to be ordered.
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    Shop New to me equipment coming.

    Make #4-40 nuts? I make a lot of fixtures and such for the field machining that I do for work. It just so happens that most of them are about this size. Until now, We’ve been getting them cut from plate, but now this is an option between the saw and free material. (Yes, I get these ‘pins’ for...
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