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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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    Shop New to me equipment coming.

    So, as mentioned, I ended up buying a Hyd-Mech S20 horizontal bandsaw. When one looks at the specs, this is a pretty big saw. Loaded in the back of my one ton with 8’ box, it’s easy to see this saw is BIG!! Two days driving, almost 2300 kms round trip, and it’s home. Was it worth the trip? I...
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    Bring out your shapers

    No, the entire top ram comes off, a big casting like an angle plate goes on, and a vertical slide then goes on that. I haven’t done it yet myself. If you look at Rhodes shaper/Slotter there’s a pic of it setup.
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    Tips/Techniques Hello new guy here

    From a former Peterborough area person, now in Alberta, welcome to the group!
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    Shop New to me equipment coming.

    Did the 1100 kms drive today and got the saw loaded, now crashed at a hotel before heading home in the morning.
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    Bring out your shapers

    Here’s my little Rhodes shaper, I also have the vertical slotting head for it.
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    SM 2000 series feed clutch adjustment

    One could also go to a stiffer spring, because, well, stiff things belong next to balls.
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    Shop New to me equipment coming.

    And the mill is moved. Total time about an hour and 45 minutes, with about half of that cruising forums and the like. Moved about 10-11’, and turned almost 180 degrees. May have to do some fine tuning to make sure it and the surface grinder don’t interfere, will do that later. The old...
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    tool box KENNEDY, $300, Lethbridge, AB

    Can you point it out for me?
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    Shop New to me equipment coming.

    The shop re-arranging continues. I took out a section of built in workbench that was here when we bought the place, and moved a standalone bench into that space. The Bridgeport mill I’m moving tonight where the bench was, and the saw will go where the Bridgeport was, give or take. This lets me...
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    tool box KENNEDY, $300, Lethbridge, AB

    I think I have enough…. Plus there’s two more not in the picture.
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