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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. Crankit

    Knee Mill in Enderby, BC. $3750

    Yes that's the size...it also came with collets/PF and a couple of shell mills I've had a bunch of good quality HSS and Carbide end mills for a few years plus reamers. I just needed the machine lol...Looking at RT's now
  2. Crankit

    Knee Mill in Enderby, BC. $3750

    The mill found a new home in my garage ))
  3. Crankit

    Tida Lathe $3500 Victoria

    I don't see the mill in the group of the seller's listings anymore.
  4. Crankit

    Tool Spotting fake Mitutoyo calipers

    I watched that this evening, it had me looking at my Mitutoyo calipers. Thankfully legit. The power consumption in the knock-offs was incredible
  5. Crankit

    Return Spring for Drill Press

    There's only a few companies building Taiwanese drill presses, Look at the design of yours and compare to drill press from companies like Grizzly, as they have parts listings for machinery they sell. I got a part from them for a 30 year old Craftsman 20" drill press which had a close enough fit...
  6. Crankit

    Tool Torque screw driver options?

    There are reasonable analog torque converters available from Amazon Japan measuring in Nm I order tools from there a few times a year...their dollar is pretty close to ours. Basically divide the Japanese Yen by 100 to get Canadian $...
  7. Crankit

    Tool Let's Get This Started - Tool Test Tuesday

    Tsunoda pliers are a really good Japanese brand that quality wise fit in between Channelock and Knipex. They usually price cheaper than Channelock
  8. Crankit

    Best place for economical tools

    I like NOS HSS and measuring tools off of Ebay but it might take digging through many pages of items to find deals, I've picked up some nice stuff around here locally but BC isn't Ontario and you won't stumble across stuff as easy here. FB also has some good deals but I kinda got sick of FB and...
  9. Crankit

    Boxford VSL $3500 Midway BC

    AvE selling his lathe?
  10. Crankit

    Which keyless drill chuck?

    I have a Yukiwa, LFA, and another European brand(can't remember now) keyless chucks... the Yukima is a better build. also... look for a chuck with the biggest Jacobs taper available.
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