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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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    Small torque wrench or gauge?

    I recently tried an Atech digital torque wrench. It was amazing. In my line of work we sometimes have to measure run on torque. For example I recently had to torque a fastener to 15 inch pounds. So I needed to know the torque of the self locking nut that I was using. The torque wrench...
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    MAZAK lathe, $6000, Coalhurst, AB

    I would be interested if it had been on the east coast. I'm more interested in finding a cnc lathe though.
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    ER40 collet chuck

    I had the exact same problem you are having with my lathe recently with a 1.5 thread. Turns out the selector fork had slipped and was not engaging the gear inside the threading gearbox. Luckily I was able to put things back into place with a screwdriver through the oil filler hole. Been working...
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    Fusion materials and appearance

    Nice looking render. Yours look a lot more real than the results I get. I think I must have something set wrong.
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    Shop BIG Dial Indicator

    I got a warning about malicious code when I clicked on the link in the first post.
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    Tool What is your oldest tool in the shed ?

    My oldest tool that I'm sure of the date is a Delta unisaw made in 1948. It was going to be scrapped because it was rusty. I took it home and was taking it apart to overhaul it and noticed the inside was in great condition. So I cleaned the rust off the top and put it back on. It still has the...
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    Adding An Encoder To A Dividing Head?

    Do you really need to use an encoder? I think the easiest way to accomplish this would be to drive a stepper motor. As much as I don't like Mach 3 software that is what I would use to do this. Just drive it as a rotary axis. It will give you a readout of the angle on your computer. You will need...
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    Grizzly horizontal bandsaw $50 Victoria

    I would have to disassemble it but I can make it fit. I have had to disassemble and reassemble more than one machine in my shop to get it up or down the stairs.
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    Grizzly horizontal bandsaw $50 Victoria

    Luckily when I lived in Port Hardy I worked for an airline so a flight to Vancouver was only $5. I only went once because I always found lots to do in Part Hardy. If you are going to live there it really helps if you like fishing.
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    Grizzly horizontal bandsaw $50 Victoria

    I also lived in Port Hardy for a few years. Great place if you like the outdoors which I do. I have noticed it's the same in Nova Scotia if you see a good deal on certain things you better move fast. I was looking for a tractor and saw one going cheap. It had caught fire and was listed as being...
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