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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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    Tips/Techniques Parasitic Draw of Cordless Tools

    I have a Ridgid cordless and have never experienced draw down, never actually thought about it. The batteries, drill and charger are guaranteed for life so I'm not concerned about it.
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    Motorcycle Lift

    Ya ok I was way off on my weight guess. I never thought of using a screw instead of a hydraulic cylinder. Hydraulics are much easier to use than turning a screw. Concerning the structure, look on the bottom left of the picture and you'll see a cross bar, this bar fits into notches welded to...
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    Motorcycle Lift

    Sorry for the confusion I'll repost tomorrow
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    Motorcycle Lift

    I believe the weight of the tractor is around 1200 lbs.. If you look at the bottom left of the picture I have a cross member which locks into a couple of notches. This allows me to release the hydraulics and the the whole table relazes
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    Lathe sine bar

    Tangent engineering has an other product to set an angle using the tail stock offset method for cutting long tapers. It consists of a steel block with a 90' V along it's length. You clamp the block to the stock you want to taper, with the supplied clamps, attach the compound sine bar to the...
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    Motorcycle Lift

    I made something similar for my JD lawn tractor. It's 2x2x3/16 square tube. sure saves my back while servicing the tractor.
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    $70million Lotto Max

    I wouldn't call it a tax in any form. You must pay tax, you don't have to buy a lottery ticket.
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    Starrett 3-Vial Level $225 Merritt BC

    Where's the 3rd vial?
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    BRAND NEW LILIAN MILLING MACHINE MOTORCYCLE SWAP? Westport, ON

    At least it has a Kurt vise
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    Compound needs a better degree dial

    You could print your own, and then modify to fit your needs. This site has a multitude of printable templates and different calculators https://www.blocklayer.com/protractor-printeng
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