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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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    Cheap Bstrd Thread

    Something I fortunately learned before I got my own machines, was to bag the chips. They end up everywhere (i.e. tires, bare feet) once they get loose in the garbage can. Back on topic, I bought a full set of 1/2" shank carbide round-over router bits for less than the price of one HSS radius...
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    Looking for milling machine purchase help/advice

    Just for reference, I bought the cheapest most economical 2-axis DRO I could find for my lathe on Aliexpress. It was less than $200 in 2018. Early this year one of the scales failed, the first problem I've had of any sort. Cost me $70 for a replacement.
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    Tips/Techniques Wall covering in garage shop.

    15/32 (12mm) OSB for me. Two coats of semi-gloss white makes it look real nice. Sort of like some of those old-school stucco jobs. Love being able to put screws in wherever needed. I HATE drywall and would never put it in a shop. I don't even like it in the house.
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    Cutting HSS Lathe Bit Stock

    HSS does not lose it's hardness by "overheating". That's what makes it special. It has to be heated above the critical temperature (~1850 deg. F) and cooled very slowly to anneal it. There aren't too many ways to cut it other than abrasive.
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    Looking into 3d printing

    Rank newb here. I'm absolutely thrilled with my Bambu X1C. It is as close to plug-n-print as one could hope. So far I've used PLA, PLA-CF, PETG, PETG-CF and TPU. It has handled them all without drama. Coming from a metal-working background, I'm amused by complaints about the price. What kind of...
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    My weekend score

    M12 is also found on some R8 of asian manufacture. DAMHIKT.
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    Practical VFD use for VFD newbies

    I can confirm that P34 does control the startup acceleration rate. I doubled it to 50 Hz/S and the mill starts up more like normal.
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    Physical activities…..

    Keeping the wife supplied with firewood is where I get most of my exercise. Felling, limbing, bucking, loading, splitting, stacking and clearing the slash is quite a workout. Unfortunately, it is mostly a fair weather activity and the winters set me back. I recently went roller skating with our...
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    Practical VFD use for VFD newbies

    In looking thru the parameters, I see P34 "Main rising velocity", for which the default is 25 Hz/S. Could this be the one that controls acceleration on startup? I will likely test this today, but thought I'd ask.
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    Practical VFD use for VFD newbies

    Quieter and longer fan life. Not really necessary to cool something that isn't hot.
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    Practical VFD use for VFD newbies

    I now have 3 of the Vevor 2.2 kw VFDs, powering my 1.5 hp surface grinder, 2 hp BP clone and 1 hp SB lathe. They are all working fine. I would like a little faster acceleration on the mill and have yet to find a parameter to adjust that, but otherwise I have no complaints. I am programming mine...
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    Tooliom 135s

    If you look the spell will be broken.
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    The Faller Came Early

    That's cheap to have a tree felled, ridiculously cheap to climb and piece it down, wood or no wood. It would have been $1k-2k to have that done to this fir. And then they would charge to haul the wood if I didn't want it.
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    The Faller Came Early

    I'm not afraid to fell a tree, but I also recognize my limitations. This one made me pucker just thinking about it, but it had to go. Doug arrived at 7 am Sunday. I was still working on my first cup of coffee and scarcely had time to set the camera up. He is 81 and quite deaf, but he sure...
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    Drilling with the cross slide

    No, that's another issue. I was referring to the toolpost rotating about the bolt that secures it to the compound.
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