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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. StevSmar

    Testing Thread, come here to try things out.

    @Dan Dubeau - No problem, Dan you can ignore this one too.
  2. StevSmar

    Testing Thread, come here to try things out.

    Testing @Susquatch ...
  3. StevSmar

    Tools you waited too long to acquire

    It hurt to buy these Mitutoyo Coolant Proof Calipers, but boy are they nice:
  4. StevSmar

    Senior Sayings

    Happy Birthday!!! Keep on sharing your wisdom! I used to think that by the time I hit 50 I’d have my stuff together. Perhaps I’ve achieved about 50% of my objective, so I‘ve been forced to set a more realistic timeframe. So I need all the wisdom I can get since I’m already behind schedule.
  5. StevSmar

    CA-ON Today's "new" steel prices - ptbo, on area

    We have GST and PST (Interestingly (not really…) I found out that there is also RST, which gets applied on some engineering services but not others- wonderfully confusing. I bet there are other “ST’s)
  6. StevSmar

    2023 Year end project/shop assessment

    Learnt how to stick weld (or more correctly started learning in earnest…). Discovered my air compressor had a crack in the tank and members of this forum convinced me it’s not repairable. Repaired my appliance cart (new tracks which required using my new lathe and my embryonic welding skills)...
  7. StevSmar

    Tool Tools you acquired that are useless

    I guess I should elaborate… my primary concern with battery powered tools is environmental. I’ve got a few perfectly good cordless drills where purchasing two (out of date voltage) batteries is more expensive than purchasing a new tool. But it does seem that battery voltage has somewhat...
  8. StevSmar

    Carbide Threading Inserts

    I just got this book on insert tooling: Introduction to Indexable Tooling for the Metal Lathe: A User Guide Seems very comprehensive and will be useful once I start dabbling in inserts.
  9. StevSmar

    Tool Tools you acquired that are useless

    I don’t think I’m going to jump on the battery powered bandwagon until the batteries are universal... Or I can use a third party battery on all the tools. I read that Bosch has opened up it’s battery “technology” to “partners” so that’s a start.
  10. StevSmar

    Aluminum dash, things were learned

    That looks beautiful! As a kid I read about the VP-1 and was fascinated by how it looked just like the model planes I was building. I still dream about building one but it’s not going to happen now. Your Taylor Monoplane looks a lot more practical for a Canadian climate than a VP-1!
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