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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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    Can you turn a drill shank down with a carbide tool bit ?

    I 'll have to use a drill motor and a long 39/64 drill . With the arthritis in my hands they are not as smooth for grinding down.
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    canadian precision bearing supplier for rockwell milling spindle bearing ?

    From a guy working at Timken, the difference between precision spec bearing and regular bearing is the precision bearings were pulled off the line and tested. Guess what I bought. I loath calling it bearing preload, It is bearing clearance. My Taiwanese lathe had a spindle like my utility...
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    New to me Ammco 7" Metal shaper

    It even has a name which I have forgotten. The curse of age.
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    Buying from McMaster Carr

    Rockwell didn't want the expensive of even flaking (sp) like the Bridgeport only did, let alone scraping. It was a low cost method to get the gliding table of a real surface grinder. Those that have replaced the tape, say it works. Like most Toolmakers owners, I don't even have the original...
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    Buying from McMaster Carr

    Here is what I'm looking for https://www.mcmaster.com/products/tape/tape-3~/low-friction-fiberglass-tape-7/
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    New to me Ammco 7" Metal shaper

    In Kay's Shaper Columns there is a story of a lab machine shop where they had set up a big industrial shaper near the supervisor's desk . Since no one had ever used it there was no problems. But they got a machinist who was skilled in it's use. The big fat chips came off red hot and burned the...
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    Buying from McMaster Carr

    I really was wondering what PTFE stood for. That is a mouth full isn't it. I bet you can't say that quickly ten times in a row quickly. After I finish my morning coffee, I'll re-rig and pull the saddle .Up to now I haven't found any glaring problems outside of the missing Teflon tape, but the...
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    Buying from McMaster Carr

    Naw , but it seems to be the Teflon is PTFE fiberglass reinforced tape. I don't know PTFE stands for either, so there is that too. When I got home from visiting my old coworker, I checked the ways with a flashlight and a straightedge, no light came through. I had swept the table side to side...
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    Buying from McMaster Carr

    I've used a lot of Ultra High Molecular Weight plastic over the years at work. In fact I put pads of it under the 2x4s I used on the Toolmaker hoist so they would slide on the concrete. It's great for outfeed and infeed slides for your table saw as it's non directional. But that is woodworking...
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    Buying from McMaster Carr

    DWT Machine is better sounding than Ray's Lapidary Machine Repair which is what I use for Fastenal.
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