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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. J

    Oldler ultra light plane 1000$ - caribou BC

    I more so like idea of part 103 for paramotoring or powered hang gliders as it's pretty hard to get a useful ultralight plane to fall under part 103. That and your restricted to were you can fly but you shouldn't be flying over developed areas anyways with these class of flying machines. And ye...
  2. J

    Oldler ultra light plane 1000$ - caribou BC

    I feel like they probably don't care because of the weight rating but then agian transport Canada has some dumb ideas so maybe depends on who you ask lol. I remembering seeing a ultralight some one built out of 4 weed Wacker engines but can't seem to find any pictures of it.
  3. J

    Oldler ultra light plane 1000$ - caribou BC

    Unfortunately you'll need a ultralight licence to legally fly it in Canada in the USA your good to go if under 250 lbs and carries less then 5 gallons of fuel. Kinda jealous of how USA handles micro lights lol basically free for all.
  4. J

    Oldler ultra light plane 1000$ - caribou BC

    https://www.facebook.com/share/15n97ritLG/ Cheapest way to fly besides falling
  5. J

    Monarch chucked lathe 500$ - Surrey bc

    Ye there really only useful for doing production not to say you couldn't use for one offs but really good machine if your machine pull knobs or stuff like that as you can slap a few form tools in it and form a shape pretty quick Maybe even able to convert to CNC make it but more interesting
  6. J

    Monarch chucked lathe 500$ - Surrey bc

    https://www.facebook.com/share/18dDkWHZjV/
  7. J

    Tips/Techniques 3 ph to single phase

    Good video about starting idler with motor Good video about building cap start motor and more or less same design I went with. It's kinda a mess of wiring so would be hard to figure out just from pics. I'll see if I can find original wiring diagram I used but the 2nd video I posted covers...
  8. J

    Tips/Techniques 3 ph to single phase

    I like the phase converter path as my milling machine is 5hp 550v so had to go down that path it was cheap compared to getting motor rewound or replace the motor. Im sure I could of jerry rigged something but it was less effort to build phase converter and the cost can be drastically reduced if...
  9. J

    Big TOS surface grinder $500

    I would buy hat if it were closer too bad it wasn't just a bit longer travel could dick around with grinding small lathes. It's lighter then my large lathe so it wouldnt be that bad to move I don't think.
  10. J

    Homemade cabbing machine from scrap.

    That's good to know, and we try to avoid buying stone as it's more interesting and rewarding to find them. But sometimes it's convenient to buy some stock to experiment with if it's cheap enough as some rocks are too expensive when you can just find them laying around. But maybe we can meet up...
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