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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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    Drilling with the cross slide

    Before I had CNC capability I usually used the Stefan leave it engaged method. Now with CNC, the process is automated so just watch and squirt a little cutting fluid as required.
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    Tools you waited too long to acquire

    No smell. I also have 5 of the mini/stuby sets; nutdrivers, Allen drives, screwdrivers etc. none of them smell, but they are all most likely decades old. The small sets are in a drawer at my electronics bench where I use them all the time.
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    Ottawa area BBQ and swap meet this Summer

    I should set a firm date and work to it. Comments welcome from anyone thinking of attending, do you have a preference for Aug 30 vs. 31st?
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    Really ?

    I know another adventures guy that did countless very risky things, was held at gunpoint numerous times, with one of the guys telling his buddy kill him now. Run-ins with the Colombian cartel, pirates etc etc. Close encounters with wildlife. Almost froze to death ( lost fingers and toes). Too...
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    Really ?

    I think it's a bit of a balancing act, with luck being the wild card. Ten young people do the same risky thing, nine survive some with a close call, most with no inkling of the danger and one dies. So to your point Darwin prevails because a 10% mortality rate at a young age is high. I knew an...
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    Real estate listings suck

    We considered buying a lot and building at one point. A few doors down from us at the cottage there is a retired architect that has developed countless properties. He owns about half the property around our lake. Anyways he decides to build a cottage for his son on the non lake side of the...
  7. slow-poke

    Really ?

    Risk - The Science and Politics of Fear" by Dan Gardener Ordered, arrives tomorrow.
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    Really ?

    I recall reading about the SFI 6 pt. harnesses we use in a race car. The belts feel really solid, however the manufacturer points out that they are somewhat "stretchy" under extreme load and as a result they need to be replaced every two years.
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    Really ?

    And boy oh boy do the marketing/sales people know how to leverage fear.
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    Real estate listings suck

    Completely agree. The problem is that too many people make decisions based on fear of the unknown or simply follow the "normal" path because everyone else does it, in this case use and agent. We purchased are last three properties without an agent and the process was a piece of cake. We...
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    Looking into 3d printing

    How about a AnyCubic Kobra S1 with AcePro for $800Cdn delivered ;-)
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    Scrap Metal Bin Score

    Definitely 1980ish based on the stickers. I had an almost identical one (bit smaller) basically the same stickers but with a cool ( now defunct) Bison Dragways sticker. It was my very heavy but portable track box. I put in on kijiji and it sold quickly lots of calls. No shortage of nostalgic...
  13. slow-poke

    Really ?

    What happened to cause a roll over?
  14. slow-poke

    Real estate listings suck

    Some of these agents are very skilled at reading people. Let's face it most of us only buy/sell a few times in our life, we plain and simple lack experience. A career agent has dozens or hundreds under their belt. When I think back to my first vs. last dealings with an agent I was much much...
  15. slow-poke

    Real estate listings suck

    That's an interesting observation and that tactic is very common. We actually looked at a house in our neighbourhood and did not make an offer, within a day one of our neighbours purchased the house, the agent told them we made an offer. They were really pissed when they found out the truth...
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