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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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    Railfanning

    Prob not many of us on this forum actually remember watching the old steamers on the tracks. Where I lived as a kid the grain elevator siding was 100 yrds from our house...I cant remember what I had for breakfast yesterday but I vividly remember watching those steam engines switching box cars on...
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    Tips/Techniques Making the Square Drive hole in a custom socket.

    I've got "hurricane & toronado" coming over for a visit this afternoon but their both too young for the shop tools yet...Last visit I offered up a couple of brooms and a floor space for each of them to practice on...that lasted about 30 seconds & the soccer ball took over!!
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    How to clean inside a cylinder

    I used & abused and fixed a couple multi stage hyd hoists for a # of years, I suspect a lot bigger than your planning, mine were 4 or 5 stage 8in in dia and 30 ft long. You will need a certai amount of honing to the inside dia of every stage you require otherwise use will quickly erode the...
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    Telescope secondary mirror support system

    We called them single trees or double trees, depending on how many horses were hitched
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    Physical activities…..

    Ohh man now your making me to want to hit the road again...truck stops, even with all the people always around can be the lonliest places on earth if your away from the family for extended periods....but man, the meals they can/do provide are top notch...good white gravy on anything or corn beef...
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    Physical activities…..

    Well, ive got the bagels on hand and 3 different flavors of home made smoked venison sausage and the "Boss"is on her way up town now for some cream cheese ...any other suggestions so I can phone her the order before she turns around!!
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    Unknown Lathe govdeals Walkerton

    Would be an excellent donor machine for a home built "Bill Webb" style barrel drill machine....all the main requirement are there and have at the mods as you see fit.
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    History (ww2)

    Two of the toughest people i ever knew were both Polish freedom fighters....whatever the task they were handed, there was no "quit" in either of them
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    Request to do a small machining job

    A fellow from lower main land of BC built a 4 bore double rifle 20 yrs ago or more, he displayed it at the Calgary gun show every year for a while...and yes i think I remember the slug being 15 oz or so. He did use the rifle in Africa "once" he claimed.
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    Request to do a small machining job

    A sign at an entrance to a local gas station at the time of metric change over pretty much summed up the Ab red neck opinion of the new system " Better gas up here...we dont know how f#ck'n far it is to the next town now"....and that is an exact quote.
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    Whisk(e)y, wine and cheese!

    Give the boys there a salute from me if you get there pls.
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    Machine Tools Warehouse MD-003

    The gear head would be proportionally quieter than the noise that come out of me when i have to change belt speeds on my mill!!!
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    Whisk(e)y, wine and cheese!

    After you've drank "culvert beer" of unknown aging process ( 1 month or 6 who knew) for a few years, anything fresh from a store is "good beer"
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    Tooliom 135s

    very much worth a try Craig....just one tip, good welding is very much dependent on good eyesight , whether natural or artificially corrected you must be able to position your head for the focal distance your vision requires otherwise it will be frustrating to an extreme!! by the...
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    Stick welder issues

    60 years ago we were told moth balls would get rid of the bats in our attic in an old farm house the folks had just purchased...damn bats would squeak all night...didnt work, they just rolled them around like toys and now we had to listen to them play their games with them and the incessant...
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