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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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    2025 Meetup?

    Last year it was in April, summer works too.
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    2025 Meetup?

    Hi All, any news on a potential Calgary area meetup?
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    Machining night classes in Calgary

    Thanks for looking into it Peter. Any non-traditional approaches that I maybe haven't considered? Ideally with a hands on component?
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    Machining night classes in Calgary

    Hey All, Anyone know of any machining night classes in Calgary? I heard that SAIT has done this in the past, but I can’t seem to find it on their website. I tried calling them and got bounced around a little and no one could tell me if they had something like that or not. Maybe there’s someone...
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    RSVP Here for the Calgary meetup April 20/2024 - 10:30 AM

    RSVP for me too, please!
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    Mill mods: auto gibb locks

    Haha, yeah it sounds like we may have a thing or two in common. Is this where I confess I am an engineer too? Is this a safe space? I often do things like this just because I can and it’s a challenge. I even occasionally learn something, but if I’m careful, I can avoid that. I’ve enjoyed the...
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    Mill mods: auto gibb locks

    I think we had similar things in mind, though I didn’t picture an steam engines. I have a surplus of small timing pullies and nema 17 motors/drivers, so I was thinking of going that angle. I’m dreaming all of this up while on vacation, without being able to look at the machine, so the mind...
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    Mill mods: auto gibb locks

    I’m trying to picture it. The hand wheel you’re talking about, it’s something you would add? The existing gibs are 1/4-20 threaded with cheap plastic spring loaded levers on them.
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    Mill mods: auto gibb locks

    Haha, ok then, I will explain more than the obvious. It is a little inconvenient to reach the y gibbs, but it’s not that, really. I often forget to engage or disengage whichever ones I need to, so having a panel with a button to push and a status light would be helpful. Maybe I will use one of...
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    Mill mods: auto gibb locks

    To lock the gibs when I push a button
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