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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. Arbutus

    Vancouver - Fraser Valley meetup

    Crickets. Ok cancelled.
  2. Arbutus

    Vancouver - Fraser Valley meetup

    I was wondering if there is enough interest to organize a meetup for folks in the Lower Mainland this Summer. :) BBQ, Swap meet, Bragging Bench, Show & Tell, sometime in July perhaps? I'm still looking for a venue - so all suggestions are welcome! Don
  3. Arbutus

    Tool Good Quality Files and where to purchase them?

    I prefer a clean, flat single cut file for finishing. By 'clean' I mean free of burrs and swarf.
  4. Arbutus

    Schematics and Circuit Board layout with Fusion 360

    FWIW, a recent quote from a well known Asian PCB fab house was just shy of $500 for 20 boards including a generic ESP32 module ($4.50) The parts count was higher and there were a couple of expensive parts, but that was close to $30/board including testing, delivery and import taxes.
  5. Arbutus

    Tool Good Quality Files and where to purchase them?

    Here's mine. Been on the shelf for 40 years..
  6. Arbutus

    12 x 36 lathe vibration

    If the machine is running smoothly without the belt, that implies that the belt or the pulleys are faulty. Vee belts can develop flat spots where the belt is stiffer is some places so it doesn't wrap around the pulley exactly. I have seen this when the machine is running slowly- the belt can...
  7. Arbutus

    Tool Good Quality Files and where to purchase them?

    Check these out too.... Tsubosan Japanese files. I bought this set for fine work and they are among the best I have ever used. They make larger ones too. Sold through Amazoom.
  8. Arbutus

    Bench power supply rec

    There are versions that allow chaining - so two 30v supplies will develop 0-60v if you need the higher adjustable voltage.
  9. Arbutus

    Question for woodworkers with a CNC router

    F360 and everything is MAC/Linux which can limit the options, I know.
  10. Arbutus

    Question for woodworkers with a CNC router

    I'm interested in trying relief carving in steel on my CNC mill. The plan is to use an image and from that, generate a 3D dataset which will recognize the Z depth. If this works, then maybe I can figure out an easy way to produce embossing dies for a rolling mill So my question is how do you...
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