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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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    Workplace Safety at work and in the home shop

    To the left of the extinguisher is the man door entrance to my shop. Besides the extinguisher, I have a First Aid kit, and a small bottle of eye wash. Be sure to check the expiry on the eye wash.
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    Workplace Safety at work and in the home shop

    @ChazzC Hearing protection... Forget to mention that. Something I am faithful with like yourself. I've met a few older tradesmen who must be right handed because they would ask you speak into their left ear.
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    The wonders of Bill's Privates

    I like using Linux software. I have a few laptops running various distros. Some are installed and some are on a bootable USB. Unfortunately it is hard to get away entirely when the software I want to use comes only in a Windows version or the Linux version is far too buggy.
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    Workplace Safety at work and in the home shop

    There was a fair bit of workplace safety related discussion in another thread. Decided to start a dedicated thread to continue the discussion. If this isn't the right location, sorry. Before I retired I was in a maintenance supervisor role. Myself and the other supervisors made workplace...
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    The wonders of Bill's Privates

    @Ironman I see 2 sides to these scenarios. On one hand they have to find ways to keep the profit wheel turning. On the other hand there are the ongoing security risks that updates/upgrades are supposed to help mitigate. As you discovered there is usually a workaround when the...
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    Live Centre looks to be dead

    Of all the suggestions it's the one grease that I had on hand that best suited the application. I did have some Super Lube 41150 synthetic grease but it's shelf life was well past the due date and is now disposed of. Live centre is back together. Cleaned everything with Isopropyl Alcohol 99%...
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    Live Centre looks to be dead

    Response from Rotor Tool AG after inquiring about what grease they would recommend for the bearings and what oil to use at the oiling points for my ROTOR C 2 Super live centre: "Since 25 years we sell closed casing with durable grease. So it seems you have a very old model. Therefore feel free...
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    Royal Live Centre Bearing Replacement

    @Susquatch The live centre you are trying to disassemble seems to be a Royal-pain-in-the-a**. Whereas, the one I was taking apart seems ROTORtively simple.
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    Tool Christmas Tools

    My gift to me was an Analog Discovery 3 which is like a portable electronics lab.
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    Tool Christmas Tools

    I purchased one of those a few years ago. Not getting zapped is always priority #1. I wonder if accidently creating sparks around the engine compartment is potentially more detrimental to a modern vehicle with all the electronics that they have?
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