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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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    Sherline 4400, also a metal spinning lathe.

    Sherline 4400 Metal spinning lathe. This is the sellers profile for the lathe, he also has a circle cutter that he is selling separate. Figured if anyone was interested in the lathe, they may want the cutter. I don't know what they are worth so it may be no deal thats for sure....
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    Shipping Lathe

    I recently used Manitoulin transport to deliver a crate for me. It was way cheaper then I thought it would be, and was really happy with them. I had no complaints.
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    Go to stores for tooling in Canada?

    I totally get having a tight budget, heck I have been out of work for almost a year now. I am not saying the quality of the tools are crap. I am saying the way the government treats its citizens, the poor handling of COVID coming from that country and a bunch of other political reasons I would...
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    Go to stores for tooling in Canada?

    Geez, I am surprised at all the recommendations to go buy chinese tooling here. I steer far, far away from anything china made now a days.....
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    Garage sale

    A trader rating system would be nice as well like Dusty mentioned. I have only been on this site for 3-4 months and see more and more people signing up. Might weed out the bad apples as well.
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    Sears Craftsman Shaper from lethbridge

    You don't have any new pics of the shaper by chance? I have a love affair for shapers my wife would say, and I have never seen a Craftsman one before!
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    Hardness tester

    I don't know why I keep looking at this post... something about it tells me I need this but I just cant figure out why I need it or what I would do with it lol. But any way do you have any more pics of it?
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    Cheeta Machine auction Edmonton

    https://www.apexauctions.ca/?utm_source=MachineTools&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SurplusAssetsCheeta_4649#!/auctionDetails/4649?page=0 Some vises in the sale I would like to bid on but too far of a drive for me! Maybe some one on here can find a deal.
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    12x36

    That lathe looks very similar to my 12X37 Busy Bee lathe but that one is a gear drive headstock while mine is belt. Its too bad at that price you could of got a nice lathe :(. I hate to say how much I paid for mine at the time, but machine tools around here aren't very common....
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    Anyone know much about 18650 batteries??

    Thanks for the reply, it gives me something to think about, the flashlights I have are LED and are high draw ones. The one is actually a cordless spotlight, and the other is a cordless work light. The LEDs in them are single units and large, so I think they probably draw a fair amount. So I...
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