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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

    Convert 20" Craftex drill press to variable speed

    Great project! That's a way better speed range for these drill presses
  2. Crankit

    Pickup, package and drop item off for shipment in Montreal.

    Congrats! I worked as a courier delivering UPS and Purolator, please spend a few minutes going thru the fine print of their insurance so your not over-spending or slitting your own throat. Both(probably all) courier companies write that contract for their favour. I would hope CSA is capable of...
  3. Crankit

    Does Anyone Know Anything About Vacuum Pumps?

    haha....yup! Slow production days in the sluice box will leave you thinking up ideas to make things better
  4. Crankit

    New Toy - Rahn Repeat - O - Meter

    Lol...Got to love stumbling across great tools! Keith Rucker just did a video on getting his Repeat-o-meter and had been watching out for one for almost a couple of years. Enjoy the life of high precision!!
  5. Crankit

    Does Anyone Know Anything About Vacuum Pumps?

    You could look at automotive style vacuum pumps as they are used on hot rods that don't create enough vacuum at idle to run power brakes
  6. Crankit

    Tap follower

    Woods Creek Workshop from Seattle area is pretty good...adds some funny into his videos
  7. Crankit

    High Speed Tool Steels

    Lots of info in this document for choosing HSS blanks for tool bits
  8. Crankit

    Another new old one:

    Welcome!
  9. Crankit

    Bicycle bottom bracket spindle material choice.

    That blackening is normally done on guns(blueing) but doesn't offer any corrosion protection, but does add a coating to help hold a film of oil. I posted an article(in links) on fasteners put out by NASA that discusses that process. Cheers Wayne
  10. Crankit

    Oil can for use with ball oilers

    My Reilang had a delivery attempt today(no unit # on package) redel on Monday...pretty good since I only put the order in on Sunday. I ordered the rebuild kit with the oiler so it should be good for my lifetime. DHL did ding me $30 for taxes/brokerage on the purchase of both items.
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