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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!

Recent content by Tecnico

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    2002 VW Golf refurb

    Cool, good to see they arrived in one piece. Happy to see they went to a good home. I wish we had talked about the grilles, I have a set here. We could talk off line about that & other stuff too. D :cool:
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    2002 VW Golf refurb

    Yup! D :cool:
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    2002 VW Golf refurb

    First thing to look at for the ABS code is a broken wire on the speed sensor. Good question on the engine. I don’t know about OBD11 but if their forum is anywhere as good as Ross Tech’s then you should be able to mine for decipherization of the fault codes and fixes. D :cool:
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    2002 VW Golf refurb

    As a VCDS user I hope you share some of your experience with OBD11. I bought into VCDS when it was the only show in town. At my latest decision point I traded in my old VCDS for the newest one because I felt I was “invested” enough at that point. I’d be interested to hear about using their...
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    Really ?

    Put me down as a belt believer as well. There was a day when I participated in oval track racing and things happen. In my case I had bruises from the belts but nothing more so the system worked as intended. I was indoctrinated young, my father installed belts in the family car ‘way before...
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    What is the best thing to clean Carb’s with a ultrasonic cleaner

    There are a couple of flavours of Simple Green tailored for aircraft use so they do not attack aluminum. Simple Green FAQ: Aluminum D :cool:
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    Terrible QC - Toilet Edition

    Well isn’t that timely. I just went through a round of “repair the toilet”, a Toto. The good? All three work well and have done so for the last 15 years so no real complaints there. The bad? The flapper lift lever mechanism. The arm from the pivot slides out and eventually falls to the...
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    How to Clean a Granite Surface Plate?

    Same here, speaking of measuring flatness that is. Dunno, that’s not the impression I got. The guy with the CI lap seemed to think he got better than AA with it by mapping the SP and concentrating on bringing the highs down to meet the lows thus making it all planar. Craftsmanship in action...
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    How to Clean a Granite Surface Plate?

    I had a look at the bottom and I didn’t notice any evident mount points. I would imagine they trued out 3 or 4 corners so it would sit on a plane without rocking. Interesting point. I don’t know about the re-lapping as certification. Even if you re-lap you’d need to know how flat you...
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    How to Clean a Granite Surface Plate?

    Sure, you have to get a good clean start! Ok, let’s be fair, the first layer will be a wooden cover, then let the filing begin! The cover serves two purposes, protect the plate and as a carrier for the sediments above it when ya just gotta get at the plate. ;) D :cool:
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    How to Clean a Granite Surface Plate?

    What about the surface finish? Shiny? Matte? Sorta shiny/sorta matte? D :cool:
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    How to Clean a Granite Surface Plate?

    Mine is an 18 x 24 x 3 and that’s at least heavy enough! No certs but anything that’s more than a year old would be out of the cal cycle. If it wasn’t hobby use since new then all bets are off on whether it’d pass. I’ll probably noodle around a bit to see if I can figure out how the “old...
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    How to Clean a Granite Surface Plate?

    Oh, Windex…but there’s the argument for and against the version with ammonia!? Yah, the surface plate will make a really solid foundation…..cus it’s not going to move anywhere any time soon now that it’s down the stairs and in the basement - solo I might add…. D :cool:
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    How to Clean a Granite Surface Plate?

    Is it the PB or the jam that’s the secret ingredient? D :cool:
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    How to Clean a Granite Surface Plate?

    I picked up a black granite surface plate today and have a few questions about maintaining it. I see suggestions about pricy $tarrett cleaner, ammonia, alcohol and even Windex, what are you folks out there using on yours that works? Also, how shiny should the surface be when it’s cleaned...
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