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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 hovercraft57

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    Shop Inheritance Machining Episode

    moving the excello ,,,, you may want to set it down on 1/2 x 6 x 6 steel in each corner ,,, that way you can get a pry bar under to slide in pipe to use as rollers Egyptian style
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    Tig settings

    When welding cold rolled mild steel sheet metal you must use tig filler wire reason being the sheet metal has not been killed so it has oxygen in it ,,, the wire for tig is triple de-oxidized and also has a deoxidizer in it ,,, no wire you will get porosity and brittle welds ,,,, do not use...
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    Shop Inheritance Machining Episode

    Put the Excello where it will not be needed to moved
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    If you were to buy a rotary table again- would you change it’s size?

    buy the largest that fits your machine and lifting is out ,,, make a table that is attached to the the milling machine and swings out of the way and then swings into place to set the them both the same elevation and slide the rotary table onto the swinging table clamp and swing the tabled...
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    Wanted 4" Handwheel

    I have many many handwheels for sale ED cambridge ontario
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    TIG rod size

    just throwing this out there ,when tig welding you can't use oxyacetylene wire , you'll get porosity ,,, I think its because the wire is not deoxidized
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    Standard Modern Longitudinal Feed Disengagement

    Feel free to ask ,,, glad to help
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    Standard Modern Longitudinal Feed Disengagement

    Yes swing by next time your wife sees her mom,,, my email is [email protected]
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    Standard Modern Longitudinal Feed Disengagement

    Thanks for your response and the drawing ,,, FYI if you have welding questions I can help ,,, Happy New Year
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    Bangood -Machinefit store

    yes Craig thats what I should have typed
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    Bangood -Machinefit store

    At the risk of offending buy North American fans there is a Chinese site called Bangood . In general its like Aliexpress . There is a store called Machinefit . They sell good machining items like carbide , holders ect . The stuff I have got from them came surprisingly fast and priced very...
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    Help identify metal

    the metal is resulfurized steel great for machining no good to weld
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    Standard Modern Longitudinal Feed Disengagement

    Hello I live in Cambridge Ontario if there is anyone in the general area . My question is about disengaging the feed on my SM 13 x 40 lathe . If the feed lever is moved just enough to start things moving disengagement is ok but if the lever is moved to its full travel position the force to...
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    Keyway Broaching tools?

    Hi Brent If you don't mine buying Chinese a site called Banggood has inexpensive machine shop items . The down side is it will take 6 weeks to arrive and some time to fish around the site to find what you want . Cutting keyways in tempered 4140 is doable with hss with oil a few times .
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    Hello new member from Cambridge Ontario,,,,, hovercraft57

    Hello All - I have a welding background so feel free to ask questions . I am a retired shop teacher but work time to time as a UA welder. In my garage shop I have a 9 x 42 first vertical mill with dro , 10 inch rotary table , metric standard modern lathe , bandsaws , welder tig and stick ,, belt...
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