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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!

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    Project Motorcycle For Sale

    Damn Im glad I never got the "bike craze"....only thing I ever "went down on" just squeezed my head a bit...and SWAMBO never complained a bit
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    Tips/Techniques LEGAL non harming booby traps for thieves

    Chicken is right, I have a locomotive horn hooked to the air system in my shop and I can guarantee you that no one is staying in that building when that thing is activated. Its been in my shop for 15 yrs or so and has never been activated by anyone but me when I test it....why is that when...
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    New KMS Tools location opening this fall in Saskatoon

    The extent of shoplifting has no boundries....my wife managed a green house storefront in Edmonton a few years ago, caught one lady that had a BMW parked in the parking lot, She was ripping the tops off seed packets in the store & pouring a few from each into a side pocket on her purse.
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    2002 VW Golf refurb

    Another tip from the peanut gallery....One of the old mans hired operators was using a set of pullers just as you describe and it all expoded into a bunch of moving parts at shrapnel speed hitting his hand and braking a bone. We started using a big muffler/hose clamp snugged up around the...
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    Alexander Deckel SO Clone

    Just dab a bit on the shaft right at the bearing/collar you want to remove and then go have lunch....or sex with the wife, or both, whatever uses up about 2 hrs and then come back to it. It was suggested to my old man by an old "been there, done that" Cat Mechanic in the 60's and since...
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    Alexander Deckel SO Clone

    I know i've suggested this before that simple pharmacy "Iodine" is the best loosener we have ever used on the farm.
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    2002 VW Golf refurb

    The rats I seen at the docks in coastal Greece were as big as or bigger than your cat...1000's of them!!
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    2002 VW Golf refurb

    I sure am, When we got interweb into our TV that was the first series I watched again.
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    Tips/Techniques Deck structural question - simple

    If I understand what your trying to do here, substitute 2x8-10's with 2x4 because the 2x8's seam like overkill for the strength needed, the 2x4 are "probably sufficientl strong enough" when used on edge, but I would be suspicious about the warping that 2x4's are capable of with a bit of age...
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    Princess Auto

    They were owned and run by a husband-wife team here in central Ab. Local word is that the demise was a result of an Ontario expansion that didnt get the support that was needed to service the dept.
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    If you could own just one special vehicle what would it look like?

    I think they all had that part, and others that "also fits" in their bigger engines. That 4 banger was just a "half block" of the workhorse 304 Cornbinder put in all the one tons they built. we had both on the farm all the time I was growing up, the 1 ton was the "grain box workhorse for us (...
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    How to measure high torque values?

    Nawww, just turn the radio up and let er' buck.
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    How to measure high torque values?

    I have an 800 lb torque wrench you can borrow :)
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    Another Problem Filled Project

    I would be more inclined to use a 1200 grit belt on the sander and spend a bit of time making a "end mill' attachment for it...buddy of mine made a drill bit sharpening jig for his belt sander and man he can do a nice job on any bit from 1/8 up to 1 1/4. every bit he has sharpened for me has cut...
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    Utah travel tips?

    Ummm ohh ya...the food is outstanding in Cody...Big Bubba's BBQ, self explanatory and the Irma Hotel, Prime rib buffe' are absolute "must visit"...Its a 9 hr drive for me from home to Cody but these two places make it worth every minute of it. For breaky, Ma's Kitchen has the best corn beef...
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