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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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    Request to do a small machining job

    Yes, they do! Very handy instrument as I do not have to press a button -like on a digital caliper- to switch between mm and inches while I make a measurement.
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    Request to do a small machining job

    Fantastic help by @grease monkey and I hope that I too, can help him out on some of his projects. It has been a looong time since I last worked on a lathe, but muscle-memory came back and I was able to do what I needed to. Canada being a bilingual country, I showed @grease monkey my bilingual...
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    Request to do a small machining job

    Hi Peter, I bought the rod in question at Home Depot. It is their regular 3/16" stainless steel and the other is the same size brass piece. Interestingly, they are not the same diameter. The brass one is 4.74mm and the stainless steel rod is 4.71mm. Not a big difference and a 4.8mm drill will...
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    Request to do a small machining job

    Hi grease monkey, Thanks very much for responding to my post and for the intro. Kind offer, thank You! Working on a proper lathe would be refreshing and if you do not mind, I would love to take you up on this offer. I have to admit that just this afternoon I eked out two little contact pulleys...
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    Request to do a small machining job

    Hi PeterT et al, Yes, I have read your PM yesterday evening. I knew my reply was going to be a bit long, so I was going to get to it this morning. The only concrete offer I received was from you, which I very much appreciate! Reading your note about the 0.005 tolerance, I realized I made a...
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    Weekend warrior

    Weekend warrior
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    Request to do a small machining job

    Yes, that is a good idea, thanks.
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    Request to do a small machining job

    @jcdammeyer and PeterT: Yes, it is my mistake. The radius is indeed 1mm, not 2mm as on the drawing. @kstrauss: The rod is 3/16 at 4.7mm diameter. I think if the hole is 0.005mm or even 0.01mm larger than the rod, then it would roll freely. It should not bind on the rod; rather it should roll...
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    Request to do a small machining job

    Hi, I am located in Courtland, just 8 minutes from Tillsonburg, South-West Ontario. I am a HAM Radio operator and the project is an antenna tuner. It requires two identical variable inductors, the drawing is shown in my original post. It has to be robust to withstand a kilowatt of RF power. I...
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    Request to do a small machining job

    Hello, I am building a variable inductor for an electronics project. I need a contact wheel that will tap the inductor where needed. Please see a picture showing the general arrangement and the drawing of the piece I need machining. I would need 2 pieces, material is brass. General tolerance...
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