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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. jmottle

    Sourcing Metal | General Discussion

    Typical CBSA...They are really really poor at uniformly enforcing rules. I have literally asked the same question (not this one) to 3 different agents and received three different answers. I personally have seen people turned away for trying to import goods for someone else.
  2. jmottle

    Sourcing Metal | General Discussion

    As someone who travels across US and international borders extensively, you are not allowed to bring goods across the US border for someone else, you can end up in a lot of hot water trying to do that, especially if you have a NEXUS card. If it's a group buy you'd have to say it all for you and...
  3. jmottle

    First project - Machinist Hammer

    Thanks! No additional tips. Just the ones on the hammer right now.
  4. jmottle

    First project - Machinist Hammer

    Thanks! All Asian machines now in the classroom we were in. Around 30-40 lathes, 6-8 drill presses, a few mills and 6-8 Baldor grinders. All the lathes we used were 500 x 1000 (ish) I can't recall the exact size now. Actually were pretty nice machines and worked well.
  5. jmottle

    New Tool Review Forum - Food For Thought ?

    I hear ya! I have always been reluctant to add too many 3rd party add-ons to our system too for the same reasons. We have a handful and some custom developed ones, but it also means every time you upgrade you have to be concerned that it might break the forum or that possibly poor programming...
  6. jmottle

    First project - Machinist Hammer

    Was a great class. The first few classes you build a drill gage and then move onto the lathes. If you get Massimo, I think you'll be really happy. He's super knowledgeable and an amazing instructor.
  7. jmottle

    First project - Machinist Hammer

    Not sure. He did not mention anything about that. Right now though this class is a pre-requisite for any of the CNC classes. I was one of the only ones (only 2-3 total) there as a hobbyists and not there for the pre-req. LOL.
  8. jmottle

    New Tool Review Forum - Food For Thought ?

    Found these. Not sure if this might help: https://brivium.com/resources/user-review-system.248/ https://xenforo.com/community/resources/content-ratings-for-xf2.5600/ https://brivium.com/resources/extra-promotions.336/ https://brivium.com/resources/advanced-reputation-system.281/...
  9. jmottle

    First project - Machinist Hammer

    Just finished my first lathe project this evening as part of the MACH 213 class at SAIT with Massimo. Excellent instructor and I had a TON of fun. Wish I could apprentice under him to learn everything he knows. Waiting to finalize my tool order with KBC and order my DROs and I can start...
  10. jmottle

    New Tool Review Forum - Food For Thought ?

    My experience with this both from a website review end and working with print publications. On websites, the reviewers generally are compensated in one or more of the following: 1) Exposure/name recognition that comes with being associated with the review. Perhaps their company name is linked...
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