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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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    Ottawa area BBQ and Swap Meet August 30, 2025, 11am to 3pm

    I am not an important consideration, but the end of August / start of September does not work for me
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    Ottawa area BBQ and Swap Meet August 30, 2025, 11am to 3pm

    I live in Toronto, but have family in Ottawa. I would be up to attend if the date doesn't conflict
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    Practical VFD use for VFD newbies

    My suggestion is that if you have a lot of these to do, get good tools and use the pre-made crimp ends. If you are only going to do a few, then the extra speed won't be worth it versus spending the time required to make a good connection directly with the wire.
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    Practical VFD use for VFD newbies

    Drill presses don't generate a lot of vibrations as a general rule. Maybe if it is unbalanced, or if the bit chatters. Drill chatter is high frequency low amplitude vibration. And an unbalanced spindle is low frequency low amplitude vibration. The key part being low amplitude. Most...
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    Practical VFD use for VFD newbies

    It seems unlikely that a drill press could generate enough vibration to affect the operation of a VFD.
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    Chain wear

    When I first saw the pictures, i thought you were going to say that you used an angle grinder on it - and since that was too slow, looking for a faster method to cut through the chain without looking up the exact specification, this type of steel is meant to be 'tough' more than 'hard'. Maybe...
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    Drilling with the cross slide

    I can nit pick with the best of them ;) But yeah, if that's a problem, you have way bigger problems somewhere else in the setup
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    Drilling with the cross slide

    Maybe you did and I mis understood. But an indicator on the headstock will fail to measure a movement of the headstock. It will measure movement in other parts relative to the headstock ;) this load twists the headstock one way, and the bed and everything connected to it in the other...
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    Drilling with the cross slide

    with no other tools in the shop to do it (or space to house them), you have to use the ones that you have ;) I have never seen a lathe where the tail stock isn't substantially more robust than the cross. And yes, the reduced eccentricity between the load and the support will produce better...
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    Drilling with the cross slide

    I think the advantage of this method is power feed. Using a lathe as a drilling machine - including for things that you aren't actually machining on the lathe but need to drill. It just needs to fit in the chuck and clear the bed
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    Another This Old Tony recap...

    IMHO, the much simpler version where the ball bearing has been press fit and does not rotate is more effective. If you are making the tool to make a tool then sure, but allowing the ball to rotate makes it harder to get enough pressure on the work to make the burnished finish. Maybe this...
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    SM Utilathe owners

    If it comes to a twist in the bed, the tool will not move parallel to the axis of rotation of the work. Probably the twist is not uniform along the length of the bed, and so the taper that it cuts won't be either. But the significance of that taper is bounded by the trigonometry created by the...
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    Ottawa area BBQ and Swap Meet August 30, 2025, 11am to 3pm

    I live in Toronto, but have family in Ottawa. If there is something going on, it would lessen the bad part of a very long drive to see my in laws
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    Running Linux and which version in order to run WINE or some other WIN-7..WIN-10 option.

    Updates, especially security updates, cost money. These days Microsoft basically gives the desktop OS away (yes there is a license agreement etc.), and makes money mostly from corporations. Trust me I know because I pay for it in my day job. Linux distributions that have similar models, also...
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    Running Linux and which version in order to run WINE or some other WIN-7..WIN-10 option.

    All recent machines use a standard called UEFI. Both Windows and Linux have tools to allow you to configure the boot options that it sees and whether it should prompt you to choose, or boot into an OS automatically. The choice can also be overridden on a one time basis during the boot...
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