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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 whydontu

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    Welcome to Westwood Metalworks, What is he building in there?

    Back to the shoe conversation. Photo of my 15 year-old Mark's Work Warehouse Mellowwalk slip-on's. Buy them half a size too big, you're not going to be running in them. Kick 'em off at the door out of my shop.
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    Garage sale find and miss

    Make new jaws, fill in body craters with j-b weld and machine true. A couple of hours gets you a perfectly serviceable milling vise. Just because it looks like crap doesn’t mean it’s not salvagable.
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    New fellow from BC

    Welcome from Richmond!
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    The things that show up on FaceBook...

    Clearly missing all four wisdom teeth
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    Really ?

    Evolutionary logic says eventually deer will develop instincts to avoid pavement. May take a few thousand years, but it will happen. Swallows are evolving smaller wings to be more agile in flight, and it’s only taken 100 years. Another possible evolutionary step would be for deer to bulk up...
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    SFU1605 Ball Screw & SBR16x1000mm Linear Rails Richmond BC

    Bought these intending to modify the drive screw and rails on one of my engraving machines, but I can’t measure so they’re too big for my machine. SFU1605 16mm ball screw 1000mm long https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B09TP5LMSJ?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1 SBR16 16mm linear rails (2) 1000mm...
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    Hello from beautiful Alberta

    Welcome from Vancouver!
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    How would you do this?

    I’ve done this many, many times, matching metric valve shafts to imperial actuators. Cut the tubing longer than it needs to be allowing 2x the key width. Put the tube on the milling table, held down at the ends with the tube sitting lengthwise in one of the table slots. If you’re concerned...
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    I Need One Of These

    Sweat shirt / hoodie
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    I Need One Of These

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    Really ?

    Powered unicycles?
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    2002 VW Golf refurb

    buy crap, when it dies buy another one. Buy a whole slew of $250 cars with the intent of fixing them, three or four at a time, then slowly scrap them one at a time. SWMBO won’t let me do that anymore, sigh.
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    2002 VW Golf refurb

    I’ve owned a lot of cars, last count was 42. For my massive 5”10”, 140 lbs frame a Miata fits like a glove. Most fun car I’ve ever owned. Handles great, short throw shift lever feels more like a toggle switch than a gear shift. More than enough ooomph to put a grin on the drivers face.
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    Really ?

    Forgive us. In my defense, memory is good for stuff that happened in 1979 but not good for all of an eleven-page forum post. Plus I think this is an extreme example of topic creep typically occurring here. Maybe even an example of topic gallop.
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    Ain't It The Truth?

    Pshaw, not a real machinist. I don’t see any swarf amongst the fasteners and bits.
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