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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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    New (to me) surface grinder

    Ya I have been going through the Vintage Machinery manuals trying to find the right one. Found like a product/marketing guide but not the manual. Found the manual here through random search but it is a poor scan quality...
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    New (to me) surface grinder

    Yes sorry I should have included that. Norton 6x18 hydraulic. Photo is from the listing.
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    New (to me) surface grinder

    Well I decided to take a chance on a surface grinder at Auction. It looks in decent condition in the photos, already 220V, and only 10min away from me. Hopefully I got a good deal on it assuming no major problems with it. https://sunrise.nextlot.com/auctions/1586150/lots/25216451 Now I just...
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    8” 4 Jaw D1-3 backing

    Pm sent.
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    Shop Powerfeed

    The photo slow-poke posted of the good board has a 3.3k ohm resistor in the 333 spot instead of your 400ohm. That was what was throwing me off on the naming convention. That’s a big value change. As he said, resistors don’t typically fail on their own. Something is likely failed shorted to...
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    Shop Powerfeed

    The two burnt parts look like resisters from the dogbone shape. That is an unusual pcb in that the silkscreen appears to be the component values. Example. 4004 is a 4004 diode. There is a 0.33 next to a likely 0.33uf cap. What is throwing me off is the 333 number with what appears to be a...
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    foam for custom cases

    I am not an expert in this at all but I have been looking at options for case foam similar to you. I just built a diode laser cutter to do some custom cases and some gasket work. I find that when looking for things that I am unfamiliar with learning the proper name is the toughest part. Once...
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    Proximity sensors??

    In my career I have a similar but different issue. I need to measure lens actuator movements at a micron level accuracy but I cannot contact the lens as it would interfere with the measurement and the glass surface is transparent. I use an opaque PVD coating on the front lens surface and a...
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    Spend my money!

    If you are looking to start a new hobby of 3d printing I would recommend the Creality. Creality is a great entry point for a lot of people, the hardware is cheap enough to get you in and you can upgrade parts to improve the quality or functionality as needed. But Creality will usually need...
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    Tool Help 300lb table crane - must be some mechanical engineers around here?

    The original design, the tension in the turnbuckle on the left is being used to cancel to moment force generated by the weight at the end of the boom. Your proposed design, without this element, will want to twist itself apart. You are relying on your welds to hold everything together, they have...
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