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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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    iPhone to Android - phone recommendations?

    Ive had the Samsung product thru several series now and am very happy with them with one exception, the "Samsung Flip". It was only a few months old when the screen went black and i sent it in for repairs, report came back "customer damage, 500 to fix"...that phone had never been dropped or...
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    Garage sales season

    Holly molly, I shouldnt complain to loudly I guess. Vermont arent bashful in pricing their products, googled Amazon last night and they price a 6mm die at $62 US and the 6 mm tap at $58 so i looked for the whole set (58 piece) and found one on E-bay....just wow...priced at $1020 U S so I guess I...
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    Garage sales season

    Attended one yesterday...and ya gotta be careful. I bought a brand new tap & die set ( Vermont American, so I think it good quality), complete set with not one of the tools being ever used, included 3 sizes of tap & die handles along with other trinkets needed when threading. The thing is...
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    Tool holders for AMMCO Shaper

    Susk, I may have a couple or more of those Armstrong type holders that I never use will check next time in the shop, prob tomorrow.
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    Norton Surface Grinder 10*48 For Sale! $1000, Calgary, AB

    Need a lot of room and a good hoist for that baby
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    ANVIL GOOD QUALITY .. NICE CONDITION, $1200, Creston, BC

    One (new) 100#er just sold at local auction, last bid i seen day before it ended was at $100
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    New to me Ammco 7" Metal shaper

    "discovering that i could lift it" led to me haveing to use a front end loader to even move a battery now with my back the way it is....keep on using your forks!!!!
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    Ammco 6" Metal shaper

    Ohh wow I could spend hours running that ol'girl...a little hint tho, that porpoising is caused by the dozer hand...the cat just follows the waves the dozer makes. A good dozer hand was always the highest paid man on the crew, often more than the foremans. Not many machine companies used...
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    Friction belt drive design

    Im going to suggest your power hammer head is hitting solid at the end of every stroke , or the weight of it is causing the belt to slip just a smidge at the end of each stroke causing friction heating at every rotation and if it is running fast enough the heat isn't dissipating from the...
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    Rust is the Enemy

    Not only the 60mph breeze removing the film....those straps vibrate at a very high RPM that would facilitate removal, especially if not twisted in use.
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