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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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  1. Kelly McLaughlin

    Interesting DoAll lathe, I dont't know about "good shape"

    You guys are so negative : ) He's just really busy and didn't have time to clean his gently used lathe : ) Happy New Year everyone!
  2. Kelly McLaughlin

    Am I the only person in the world dumb enough to replace the broken crystal in a digital vernier?

    Bill! quick ...... spend your money now while it's still worth something : )
  3. Kelly McLaughlin

    Am I the only person in the world dumb enough to replace the broken crystal in a digital vernier?

    Hi Bill! Thank you for your service....... but I was referring to your inability to bring yourself to part with the funds to repair a tool that has obviously performed well and would continue to do so if given the opportunity. (the scraping sound you may or may not hear is me dragging out my...
  4. Kelly McLaughlin

    Am I the only person in the world dumb enough to replace the broken crystal in a digital vernier?

    Hi Peter! actually they are glass, the LCD screen is behind it. I've sourced 1mm glass sheets in small sizes but they are difficult to cut with no chipping. most have a black border, som have text indicating button function. The lexan would do the job but I was hoping for a more elegant...
  5. Kelly McLaughlin

    Am I the only person in the world dumb enough to replace the broken crystal in a digital vernier?

    Oh c'mon Bill the lord hates a coward : )
  6. Kelly McLaughlin

    Am I the only person in the world dumb enough to replace the broken crystal in a digital vernier?

    There's a number of places that sell replacement round crystals but the one place I found in the US that had flat replacements for digital verniers refused to sell me one. I'll keep looking I keep thinking there has to be a source, I made an inquiry from a Chinese manufacturer, we'll see if I...
  7. Kelly McLaughlin

    Am I the only person in the world dumb enough to replace the broken crystal in a digital vernier?

    I managed to repair this one but I have one more that I'd like to repair, it just seems odd, they're held in with two sided tape and really easy to replace.
  8. Kelly McLaughlin

    Am I the only person in the world dumb enough to replace the broken crystal in a digital vernier?

    Hi Folks! I've been looking for a source for the flat crystals in digital verniers, (there are many many different ones) got some from Fowler and one from MCS (over many months) it was for an STM 12 inch caliper ended up massaging one of those to make it fit. I can't believe there isn't a...
  9. Kelly McLaughlin

    Selling Standard Modern 12” x 30” type 12 LD Utilathe - $5K OBO

    Very nice machine! He's done a great job and some interesting solutions!
  10. Kelly McLaughlin

    Dumb question probably

    Those mechanical tachs are still available. Good tool when you're always doing weird things like me : )!
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