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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

    Daily Shop Improvement

    I’ve finally got into cleaning out my whole shop. I have removed all the metal I have from my garage bay/shop, and now I am trying to think the best way I could store it back inside in a much more organized manner and save as much room as possible. I have come up with some good ways to store my...
  2. Chris Cramer

    The eggscaliber, a custom forged skillet

    Yeah, I agree. I had thought about removing it and making a handle with black Markita with a pommel to go well with the hilt. However when I showed it to my aunt she insisted that it was good enough.
  3. Chris Cramer

    The eggscaliber, a custom forged skillet

    On my third try I finally managed to forge the perfect carbon steel skillet for the hilt and handle I had to add. My fist two dishes were not heavy enough to hold up the weight of the hilt and handle. Shaping thicker steel took more effort, but it was much more solid and easy to keep still.
  4. Chris Cramer

    Daily Shop Improvement

    It shouldn't be too difficult to design something like that with fusion or solid works based off of the location you would place it in your shop, as well as the size and shapes of the tools you want to place in the assortment. IMO I would rather design the assortment myself, because it gives you...
  5. Chris Cramer

    Swage blocks.

  6. Chris Cramer

    Swage blocks.

    I managed to sever the outer swages out of two of the three 1 inch blocks of hardened steel. I can still clean the cuts with my die grinder, and after that I still need to weld the three blocks together to create one swage block before asking John to cut the iner swages with his mill. It may be...
  7. Chris Cramer

    Tungsten holders

    A tungsten holder is definitely useful for sharpening electrodes, but I have always thought that there must be some sort of sharpener that works similar to a pencil sharpener and a drill bit sharpener for tungsten electrodes. If not, then I'm thinking that all it would need would be a rotating...
  8. Chris Cramer

    Scrap metal

    Does anyone know of a place that would offer their scrap to you for free, or at least at a much lower price than stock on sale? For certain projects, scrap metal would not be ideal; but for other things like metal art, if you are creative then it is very useful to find parts that are already...
  9. Chris Cramer

    Flying Merkel Ebike and Sidecar with Experimental Motor Design

    I've cut copper plate with my plasma cutter in very fine detail. Hypertherm's fine cutting consumables work very well for precise cutting as long as the plate is not too thick. Today I tried to use the machine torch to cut my inch thick hardened steel plate; and even if it started frome an edge...
  10. Chris Cramer

    Swage blocks.

    My dad found an old cutting edge from one of their large landscaping machines at work. it was one inch thick, one foot wide, and three feet long. I managed to cut it into three one square foot plates that I am working on to laminate together into the block that I need. As a cutting edge it is...
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