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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. Bofobo

    fusion 360 requirements

    I Posted in the other post. DBCS computers in airdrie has good used selection and has useful knowledge, I find his ads through kijiji, his company logo is on his listings
  2. Bofobo

    Fusion 360 requirements.

    I purchased a used desktop for fusion, from an airdrie local, home based reseller, I paid next to nothing and he does also have laptops, has all inventory cataloged with its options listed. DBCS computer... I just checked he is still listing on kijiji
  3. Bofobo

    2x72 sander

    Just started using mine, and steel dust collection is now my enemy. All scrap No plan and thread to follow soon. Thanks for the write up
  4. Bofobo

    Daily Shop Improvement

    That was totally Unrealized at the time, that’d be meme-able material lol
  5. Bofobo

    Daily Shop Improvement

    Got myself a 2x72 belt grinder built finally, couple finishing touches and I’ll have an update w/photos, but it would be rude not to tease a photo I guess.
  6. Bofobo

    Sourcing Fastners

    I get my stuff at foothills fasteners, even if it’s just for four specific bolts
  7. Bofobo

    In the shop today

    Yeah, it was an easy job to make and I had everything, it’s pretty simple to swap the end I made the threads long enough to pop the tool off by backing it out, the chuck is not good inside (any part) but I managed to use it once now and I need a new one pronto.
  8. Bofobo

    Sourcing aluminum

    It’s a Wooster Sherlock paint pole I have no idea what alloy they use, you might be able to find it on the Wooster web page, i use them for Christmas lights and just keep them around for parts or whatever. It just looks like this
  9. Bofobo

    Sourcing aluminum

    I’ve got a lot of hex aluminum extrusion, you can have 2 pieces, from old painter poles they are 8’or less in length
  10. Bofobo

    In the shop today

    And since Honda likes to rivet it’s oem parts, in this case a brake pedal made of steel on an aluminum arm with an aluminum rivet and no “pedal pad” available only $140 for the whole unit I made a new, bigger bolt on, and blued it with a torch in place as an experiment. The material for this was...
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