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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. LeakyCanoe

    On using walkers

  2. LeakyCanoe

    Just able to revisit the forum, missed it immensely

    We all have our own "bedside manner" right ? It is worth noting the criticism though and looking inward at the chances we each have in our own little "less important worlds" to perhaps take the time to recognize that basic civility and basic exhibiting of compassion and respect for someone...
  3. LeakyCanoe

    Mystery Shaper rejuvenation

    ...and when you get that shaper completed Kevin you can "cut your teeth" on it too ! Here's a handy link to doing that... https://www.antiquemachinery.com/gear_cutting.htm
  4. LeakyCanoe

    Mystery Shaper rejuvenation

    Tom - check out this link for what I understand to be the explanation... https://www.tec-science.com/mechanical-power-transmission/gear-types/helical-gears/
  5. LeakyCanoe

    vintage metal shaper - 16" model in running condition, $1,750, Morriston, ON

    This machine is now provisionally sold to the buyer from Manitoba at full asking price. A decent hold deposit has been paid, with pick-up to be mutually arranged before the end of May. Although I do not expect this to fall through, I am accumulating interested parties so as to be able to...
  6. LeakyCanoe

    vintage metal shaper - 16" model in running condition, $1,750, Morriston, ON

    No connection between the 2 companies that I am aware of...one from Cincinnati and one from Galt (Cambridge). John Steptoe: http://www.vintagemachinery.org/mfgindex/detail.aspx?id=2177 R. McDougall: http://www.vintagemachinery.org/mfgindex/detail.aspx?id=370&tab=0 Of course...
  7. LeakyCanoe

    vintage metal shaper - 16" model in running condition, $1,750, Morriston, ON

    I don't know for sure John - but it is a hefty fella and I don't have the means to do that anyway. What do you think, looking at it purely from a sum of the parts approach ? It weighs just enough to separate the men from the boys IMO. I can move the main body around as it sits on it's own...
  8. LeakyCanoe

    vintage metal shaper - 16" model in running condition, $1,750, Morriston, ON

    Yeah, the vise and rotary table is a big component in this overall IMO. A fellow acquaintance that I know from the PM forum wanted that for his machine and offered me $ 350 USD for it alone a few years back. The school of hard knocks has shown me that a machine without it's associated tooling...
  9. LeakyCanoe

    vintage metal shaper - 16" model in running condition, $1,750, Morriston, ON

    Yes, I swim around in most of the forum seas (mostly lurking) but have been likely most visible on that one over the years. If a site loses it's civility and becomes a parade of dancing bananas emojis then I'll typically distance myself more. They all offer different strokes to different...
  10. LeakyCanoe

    vintage metal shaper - 16" model in running condition, $1,750, Morriston, ON

    OK, I've been outed. That is my machine. I posted that ad the same weekend I tried again to re-join this forum. I didn't bother to rush straight to the classified section...I guess I am old-fashioned and chose instead to spend time on the foreplay. ;) So far, Ive got 5 quasi-serious guys...
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