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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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    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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    CMC 20” x 144” Lathe - 15 mins from Sherwood Park Alberta

    Figures, when I’m unable to pickup at the times available. Oh well!
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    Hyd-Mech S-20 Horizontal Pivot Band Saw w/ Extra Blades, Online Auction, Calgary, AB

    Cosmetically the saw is a little nicer than the one I got. Will be interesting to see what it goes for.
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    Granite surface plate, $100

    When we were having plates relapped and checked, they would lap plates as large as 18x24, upside down on the larger ones. Then flip them back over, check them, then return them to their usual location. Mind you most of these were thicker, like my 12x18 that’s 4” thick.
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    1-3/4" x 5" brass rod, $40, Edmonton, AB

    Figures, ran all over Edmonton yesterday and could have snagged that. Oh well, would have just been more stuff to sit on for who knows how long.
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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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    2021 Tormach 440, $10k, Fort McMurray, AB

    It’s also Fort Mac. Hard to find any other place where so many people have the amount of disposable income they do here, and get bored trying to figure out ways to spend it for some. It’s easy for a two income household here to make 4-500K/year if they are both working at the oil sands sites...
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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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    Milling machine, $3000, Sundre, AB

    A bit of a wierd voltage though. 440 would run okay on 480, but it’s already running on 60hz versus 50, so would likely run like a scared cat.
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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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