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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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    Machine Make a precision spindle.

    I was going to comment! Can't see the pics, thanks for the link! Looks like quite the undertaking Mcgyver! Great job and must be very satisfying!
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    Gift for myself. LF common wisdom

    I find this to be sort of sad, you have the money and want something special yet it must conform with others in the family. I don't think I could live with that, and I'm not trying to be selfish! We live such a short life, make the best of it.
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    Indicator Base Plate for Lathe

    Nice idea Susquatch!
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    What to use to seal oil site glasses?

    Awesome! Like Mcgyver I have a leak issue that can't be sealed (by my conventional methods) only on the carriage. I've tried silicone, plumbers tape and plastic sheet. All will leak eventually. Going to give this a try.....
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    Tailstock DRO

    For the most part they are meant to drill or bore a hole but myself (as perhaps a few others) use them for precision boring for things like spindle pockets or bearing journal shoulders. I'm just happy to know that what I did was beneficial.
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    Shake my head sometimes

    LOL idiots...both the delivery guy and the wrong address recipient. Glad you finally got it. I had a package delivered the same way a while back but the OP was kind enough to drive it over!
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    Tailstock DRO

    Ya I pretty much figured it was a pitch issue in the screw where they got as close as they could in metric. There's no end play in the quill, everything is tight as the machine was bought new by me and I use the machine moderately. Despite the fact that tailstocks aren't really meant for...
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    Tailstock DRO

    I will post a pic later, but basically when you set the tailstock dial to zero then turn it one full inch on the Mit scale the dial is like 3 or 4 thou (can't remember) past the zero.
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    Tailstock DRO

    I finished my tailstock scale! @Susquatch, turns out the dial on the thing is .003" off ;) so the reader is a bonus!
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    Announcing the 2025 Ontario Meetup April 26 in Aylmer

    I'll consider it, would love to but that's opening weekend for trout and of course the turkey season is on then too ;)
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