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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. whydontu

    Ham Steak. $1.88 in 2019 $5.99 this past week

    I don’t know. In 1963 my father was the principal if a brand-new elementary school, and he earned the princely sum of $1000 a month.
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    Shake my head sometimes

    Does this happen often?
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    How to get the index ring back onto the hand wheel?

    My father always said “when all else fails, cheat”. Great words of wisdom, particularly applicable to home shop machinists.
  4. whydontu

    Tool Replacing a spring punch tip

    Cheap scribers with replaceable carbide tips are 1/8” shanks. $12 off Amazon.
  5. whydontu

    Gear-Head Mill-Drill (RF45?) $2000 Langford BC

    https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/652375404047940/?
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    Canadian source for 4mm and 6mm poly tubing

    Mettle Air in Ontario
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    SWAGELOK Tube Benders

    Perspective. Having used these Swagelok benders a dozen times every work day for the last 25 years, a bender that doesn’t flatten the tubing or slip and bugger up the bend spacing is probably worth whatever the vendor or Swagelok wants to charge. Let’s say we scrap $1 of tubing every time the...
  8. whydontu

    small metal shear $100, Victoria

    If it was in decent condition, it's good for lamacoid plastics sheets, brass shim stock, aluminum to maybe 20ga, steel to a maximum of 24ga. Tuned up they'll make a great paper shear, and works nicely for vinyl flooring. I use mine quite a bit for ABS and PVC plastic sheet stock for signs.
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    JCDammeyer's 42 projects

    Forgive my ignorance of all things formal-CNC. My CNC engravers run on GRBL controllers, and a CAM/CNC program called Estlcam. When I place a metallic workpiece on the platen, I then install my chosen cutter and run a surface scan. (Quick-n-dirty, the workpiece is grounded, the cutter is...
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    The hypocrisy and unfairness in schooling

    I never let my schooling interfere with my education. (Mark Twain) Grade 10 PE class. I’m 15, 5’10”and weighed maybe 100 lbs. I hated PE. Class is playing basketball. I’m avoiding the ball as much as possible. and nobody’s going to pass me the ball, because that would be stupid. So I’m...
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