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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. Chris Cramer

    Blade smithing

    I finally finished my full set of kitchen knives. This set includes 8 steak knives, an 8 inch chef knife, a 6 inch utility knife, a boning knife, a paring knife, a bird beak paring knife, a cheese knife, a 10 inch meat carving knife a meat carving fork, a 10 inch meat slicing knife, and a 10...
  2. Chris Cramer

    Forum Change Log

    Thanks for putting this together. It's a great community where you can meet others with common interests and offer support with what you know.
  3. Chris Cramer

    Induction forges

    I don't think temperature is controlled with an induction forge. They are most often used for melting metal in a crucible that sits in the coil. Frequency can change the induction which would change the temperature, but I don't think it would be very accurate. I use the heater mostly for...
  4. Chris Cramer

    Induction forges

    I've gone back to my induction heater project. The previous 2500W module stopped working, so I ordered a replacement module which is 3000W. The power supply is 3000W but I can tell that it's working far too hard byhow fast thefan is running even when the module is only drawing about 1Kw by using...
  5. Chris Cramer

    2x72 sander

    I'm not sure if I've already shared this, but I've definitely improved my belt grinder both in terms of electrical and mechanical operation. Instead of using multiple square tubes to build the frame, a single large rectangular tube was used to keep everything in line, and the adjustable...
  6. Chris Cramer

    Drill press repair

    The remaining amount of the taper that you see is excess taper where the rest makes full contact inside the chuck. The draw bar was long enough for me to cut off the end od the taper up to the point that made contact at the top of the chuck. From there I machined the draw bar to make full...
  7. Chris Cramer

    Drill press repair

    I managed to shape more of the drawbar to fit more of the face of the arbor against the inside of the chuck to hold the chuck securely in place collinear with the draw bar.
  8. Chris Cramer

    Drill press repair

    The spindle is hollow. One long tapered draw bar runs up the quill through multiple pullies on top. I don't know if any of the drawbar could be removed and still remain inside the pullies when drawn all the way down.
  9. Chris Cramer

    Drill press repair

    Yeah I do have a lathe, and I tried using it to shape the arbor. I did get it straight, but the arbor didn't have enough material near the end to make contact with the chuck. Only about 1/8 an inch on the top of the arbor makes contact with the chuck which is what allows the chuck to move easily...
  10. Chris Cramer

    Drill press repair

    The arbor on the end of the shaft of my drill press is in terrible shape and doesn't hold the chuck well enough to keep it at the center of the shaft. If you look at the original arbor in the first picture the arbor is part of the shaft, so it is a tapered shaft. In this case I will need to cut...
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