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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!

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    OTTAWA Area - Flat Taper in Mild Steel Plate

    Is there a reason that you can't laser cut it after milling the taper? Seems to me like you've got a whole lot of not particularly well supported details on that part after it's lasered out. If you can laser cut it after tapering it might make the milling setup a lot easier.
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    Leblond Regal Lathe, Ottawa, Crown Assets

    Here are a couple. There are some more and more recent ones in this thread on HM where I'm making a bunch of the accessories, which I didn't get with the machine. I picked it up in Montreal and pulled it home behind my Civic. It's been a very nice mill for me so far. Work envelope is a...
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    Leblond Regal Lathe, Ottawa, Crown Assets

    Looks like a pretty decent option. I'll have to look into what is involved. I saw a 2 HP 240 V single phase motor for sale used for not too much with the right shaft size, so I might look at that for the main drive and cross the coolant bridge when we get to it.
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    Leblond Regal Lathe, Ottawa, Crown Assets

    Managed to get it off of the trailer, onto the ground, and into the garage today with the help of a truck repairman whose shop is about a block down the road from my place. He had a backhoe big enough to lift it. Once it was on the ground we rolled it on water pipes into the garage. It's...
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    Leblond Regal Lathe, Ottawa, Crown Assets

    That's right
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    Leblond Regal Lathe, Ottawa, Crown Assets

    @brino and I picked this up today. Loading was a breeze. The gentlemen at the NRC really made it smooth sailing. Unloading on the other hand... Well let's just say it's not off of the trailer.
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    Real estate listings suck

    You're right on the money. I was born in 1999 and I am one of two people I know my age who owns a place. I was able to buy my place by being cheap my whole life, having part time jobs from grade 9 until graduating university, staying at my parents place during uni, getting a good job right out...
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    Real estate listings suck

    I bought my first house just outside of Arnprior (West of Ottawa) on a half acre lot about 3 years ago. The realtor I used was a guy named Matt Robinson and was very happy with him. He was patient, gave his opinion when asked, but otherwise let me look without being pushy, gave recommendations...
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    Atlas lathe 9 in Swing Model H 36 including face plate - $600

    Plain bearings, short bed, and I don't see the apron. On the other hand, that's pretty cheap. Maybe he has the missing bits. https://www.facebook.com/share/1BmACq8Jpf/
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    Another dumb question

    I bought a Bostar AxA Aloris Style quick change Tool post for my Atlas and have been very happy with it. I'm not sure that it was exactly this pack, but it was a very similar one. They sell them with different combinations of tool holders, so you can choose whatever suits you best. One thing...
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    Atlas 10-F on/off switch

    You can also contact Clausing and get one through them, although you're probably better off buying an off the shelf one. They're a generic switch and are more expensive through Clausing. You can also get the On/Off sheet metal plate that the switch mounts into from them.
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    Leblond Regal Lathe, Ottawa, Crown Assets

    Sold to me. Ended up being just over $2000 after tax
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    Leblond Regal Lathe, Ottawa, Crown Assets

    Up to $1724 now
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    yuasa rotary table, machining, milling, machinists, $350, Spencerville, ON

    Ad updated with "sold - pending pickup"
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    Noob needs help with custom HSS tool.

    Diamond would definitely work. I don't know about CBN though. I think don't think that my wheel is either of those. I think it's green Silicon Carbide wheel? I'll have to check when I get home to be sure. I was using it to grind the end radius on scraping tools. Final sharpening was with a...
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