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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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    Colchester Master 2500, making the missing 56T change gear

    Yes, it helps a lot. One last picture of the engraved gear. Too bad the camera gets “blown out” by the shiny surface finish and turns the gear this bronze colour... (Yes, I already scratched it up, )
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    Colchester Master 2500, making the missing 56T change gear

    Yes, I did. The major diameter of the internal spline can be a circle segment or straight. It just provides clearance to the male spline OD. I went with straight because that is the broaching tool I already had.
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    Colchester Master 2500, making the missing 56T change gear

    At least as far as the Colchester is concerned. The big lathe is missing a bunch of extra change gears as well. They are module 2.0. Straight bore with a key way - so easier to make.
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    Colchester Master 2500, making the missing 56T change gear

    There was a vertical shaper head available as an accessory.
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    Colchester Master 2500, making the missing 56T change gear

    The standard gear train (40T, 95T, 44T & 88T - for a SAE lead screw) of the lathe covers ~85% of all threads / feeds. The 56T gear is used to produce the rest (it replaces the 44T in the gear train). It was missing when I got the machine. So it was time to make one. The members who attended the...
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    Milky Gear Oil

    @Susquatch , are you really sure there is no drain plug on that gearbox? Replacement ones seem to have them; at least that’s what I would identify the red circled part to be…...
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    Calgary summer meetup 2025 RSVP

    No worries Gary. If you RSVP in the members only section (by clicking in the sign up section “The Calgary Area Meetup is set for Saturday July 12th at 10am. The signup thread is here!) , I will send address details / parking instructions next week. The general location is between Calgary &...
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    Lathe worm gear repair

    If your are re-making the worm out of steel, you could weld the key into a shallow key way inside the bore. Use your shaper to make the key way in the worm. That is how Standard Modern does it on their 9” Utilate. The key just needs to be axially constrained when the carriage moves along the...
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    TOS FN20 Grinding Sound in the Spindle Head

    It’s a good thing you found what was causing the problem. Your bearing experts will know for sure: I think the “P5” refers to the precision class. P5 ==> ABEC 5.
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    Briggs p2200 generator

    Great job! You had nothing to lose, as the rocker arm is a non-serviceable item and B&S does not sell it as a replacement part. So welder to the rescue…
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    2025 Calgary meetup dates

    Yes, I believe we used PM with everyone CC’d as an organizer’s way of communicating. We could do that again, unless someone has a better idea?
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    2025 Calgary meetup dates

    All righty, Saturday, 12/July/2025, is the meet-up. Time 10:00h to 16:00h. I’ll set everything up on my end and look forward to seeing you all then. Perhaps one of the moderators can update our home page and set-up an RSVP system like we did last year? Some things I have in mind: A) collets...
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    Calgary v22 osprey's

    Last night, “HOSER ONE ONE” - a CF Polaris tanker (Airbus A310) was doing laps over the event at 23000ft. Today it is “HOSER 12”…
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    Calgary v22 osprey's

    There were two flights of two. One pair came eastbound along Glenore Trail and turned left base over our house to land on runway 29. The second pair flew along 22x and turned in over Langdon / Chestermere, also landing on runway 29.
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    2025 Calgary meetup dates

    Looks like right now the trend is Saturday, 12/July. More people prefer Saturdays over Sundays. Ryan, perhaps we can remove the Sunday option from the survey and just leave the Saturday dates. We can leave the survey up for another 2 weeks - say until 15/Jun - and then we’ll pick a firm date...
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