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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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    Do you RC?

    My dad got my brother and I started off with line control in the late 70's, then we moved to RC planes in the early 80s. Then 1/10 off-road racing in the mid-late 80s. Then switched to racing r/c boats (outrigger hydros) in the mid 90s. We actually won the 11cc world championships in 97and...
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    Lathe dro install

    Thanks for the manual. I have the older model (i.e. none LCD version). It looks like they fixed this in the new version...
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    Lathe dro install

    Nice clean install! Question - I assume you got the ToAuto DRO from fasttobuy. When you configure the DRO to Lathe-2 mode, does your calculator work? I could not get mine to work, I emailed to and they said their "Engineers" said to set it to Mill-2 Axis and change the x-axis resolution to 10...
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    New Motor to my ML7

    I found it on Facebook marketplace. Someone bought it to fit it on his meat grinding machine and couldn't get it to fit properly and couldn't return it. I got very lucky finding this....
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    New Motor to my ML7

    I finished installing the Leeson motor today - WOW!!!! What a massive difference. It is pretty much silent now - all you hear are the fenner belts. Love the variable speed....
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    Professional youtubers have lost touch with reality.

    Speaking of YT machinist - I started watching this Australian guy - CUTTING EDGE ENGINEERING AUSTRALIA PTY LTD. I really like this guy - no nonsense\BS...amazing how much material he can machine with this big lathes and mills....
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    New Motor to my ML7

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    New Motor to my ML7

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    Myford ML7 DRO

    Good Morning, no they came with glass scales...
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    Myford ML7 DRO

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