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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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    New member from Ontario

    Welcome from Richmond Hill. Kinda North of Toronto, but not really.
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    Buying socket head cap screws online

    I buy everything from Amazon, nothing has fallen apart yet. Of course I would think differently if I was building a submarine or an airplane or something. The 12.9 grade cap screws seem alright to me.
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    Looking at other CNC router options.... what do you have?

    I built one similar to this: https://www.wadeodesign.com/. I also found the electronics/wiring very challenging. Like whimpering crying type of thing. I am using Mach 4, which is fine, but they don't make the boards and controllers, so it isn't like a turn key environment.
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    Affordable grinding/sanding implements?

    I built a 2x48 using plans online. Then sent the DXF file to a place that laser cut it. It was several years ago but they charged 165.00 which included the steel. The cheap variable frequency drives seem to work fine and you can adjust speed right on the VFD if you don't want to get fancy...
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    Counterbore questions?

    I ended up chopping the pilots off of my fixed counterbores. Just like @Susquatch I don't like the hole size you need in order for the pilot to work.
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    Dumber Idea: Hillbilly shielding gas: compressing exhaust

    Hey, necessity is the mother of invention.
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    High speed CNC router spindle question

    I have an Ugra air cooled spindle with max rpm of 12000. They say don't run it less that 4000rpm. The torque curve is linear so as DavidR8 said the torque is pretty much non-existent at the really low speeds. I am currently switching to a belt driven spindle with a servo motor so I can run at...
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    What House are you?

    Makita for me, not because I'm a fan boy or anything, just can't see going and buying all new batteries. Some things work well, some not so much. I would not recommend their battery powered 36v vacuum. I have a 1/2 hammer drill that is 40 years old, been with me most of my adult life and...
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    Waterjet

    They have a pro model out now. 18K for that one. Higher pressure and such but the footprint is the same.
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    Surface grinder, $1000, Aurora, On

    Just wondering if something like that is takeapartable so I could put it in the basement? I sometimes wonder why I live here.
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