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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. Six O Two

    King 12x36 Metal lathe, Kaslo, BC, $4900

    Not too far from me. The seller's also got a 40" shear, break, and roller unit which looks tempting... https://www.kijiji.ca/v-view-details.html?adId=1653354885
  2. Six O Two

    Standard Modern 1133 Alabama Auction

    eff me, that's a killer deal.
  3. Six O Two

    Components

    These guys make some pretty fancy-looking grinders in BC, with a price to match (although they do also have lesser priced kits). https://vashtigrinders.com/collections I've come pretty close to buying the HouseMade grinder kits but the Scotsman in me couldn't bring myself to spend the money...
  4. Six O Two

    Standard Modern 1133 Alabama Auction

    That's a nice little machine. Taper attachment, metric & imperial threadcutting. Too bad about the 80hr roundtrip for pickup...
  5. Six O Two

    What did you do for a career and would you pick it again?

    I worked summers at a few bikeshops through high school and university. Being a bike shop mechanic is the job I hold most fondly in my heart and often think of returning to, but of course it's crap pay and really hard to support a family or buy a house being a bike mechanic.
  6. Six O Two

    What did you do for a career and would you pick it again?

    What an amazing thread! It's great reading and learning from the life experience on this forum. I've known a few welders that went back to school to get an engineering degree, but I've never met someone who went the other way. As for myself, 10 years out of university I found myself in pretty...
  7. Six O Two

    Finishing parts

    Sound proof box, you say... My kid and I have been getting a bit into rocktumbling (we also have a vibratory tumbler, not pictured). The noise made spending time in the shop unpleasant, so I made an if not sound proof at least sound deadening box. Probably takes 10-15dB off and makes the...
  8. Six O Two

    Other Watchmaking

    Yeah, watchmaking is on a whole other level. I'm cautiously dipping my toes into that world and predictably, my first effort has been a bit of mess. I'm definitely not used to working at this scale, and not sure I want to, ha. I've got a watch case I wanted to modify so that I could fit a...
  9. Six O Two

    Micro brazing torch - any good?

    TM Tech has a really good selection of tips and accessories for the meco welding torch. They're US based though, so you'll probably be dinged for shipping. https://www.tinmantech.com/products/welding/meco-torch-accessories/ I use a small smith-type torch, but with propane specific gentec tips...
  10. Six O Two

    Tool Tap handle Starrett 91B or Greenfield #4?

    You folks are a terrible, terrible influence...
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