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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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    Model Engineer Magazines available.

    Lots of inspiration in them. I've flipped through the few that they have on archive.org. Whenever you are ready to part with them/some of them, let me know and we can arrange something.
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    Model Engineer Magazines available.

    I'd love to give them all a home. I'm up in Campbell River, with friends in Victoria area, so I'm sure we could work something out. (and I'm also willing to share as there are others interested)
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    Bitter/Sweet New Truck

    Wouldn't call a 20 year old vehicle "junk". A vehicle really only starts to pay its own way at about that point. Had some great cars though the years. One of the best was a '64 Valiant. 225 ci slant 6. Paid $1000 in 1990. Put in a couple hundred to take care of deferred maintenance, and...
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    Newbie from Vancouver Island

    Looks good! Hopefully it will be good lathe to learn on and give you many years of service. You will likely find that you end up wanting another/a different one as your needs grow. When you don't have a lathe you wonder what you would do with one. When you have a lathe you wonder how you...
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    newbie fron the UK

    Welcome from Vancouver Island! Nice work on the lathe.
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    Vancouver - Fraser Valley meetup

    In the lower mainland + in the summer + no beer = desiccated drive.
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    Looking for some opinions from those of you how rebuilt a head stock

    Quick Google search - Mount Everest: 8,849 m
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    Newbie from Vancouver Island

    Welcome from Campbell River!
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    Cheap Bstrd Thread

    LIke Mr. Pete said in one video: :"I could have bought this part for $10 at the store. But I was able to make it for $0.05 - with $10,000 worth of tools!"
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    What is more valuable?

    You mean they pulled it out of your nose? Biggest booger ever! Glad the surgery went well. Glad you're feeling better and hoping the recovery continues to go well.
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    Gray machine paint - recommendations please

    I used the Home Hardware brand of metal rust paint on the King 1440 paint job I just did. Paints on well, and what I really liked was it can be tinted to match any colour you can supply them with a sample of. The electrical box on the lathe was still in pretty good shape, and the paint matches...
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    One less John on the Forum

    Glad to hear you can do a little more. Choose wisely, and don't try to take too deep a cut on the lather or mill.
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    2002 VW Golf refurb

    Yeah, at a certain age hardtail bikes and a go-cart ride starts to lose their appeal.
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    Some stuff needs a ride to Vancouver Island and Ontario.

    Welcome to North America!
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    Really ?

    I hear you. we rented a car in Ireland (midsize SUV no less) and you are right, the proximity sensor is basically going off constantly as the rock walls are so close. Was fun the couple of time we came head on towards a 1) tractor and 2) Fuel truck!
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