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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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    Tool New project, a vise stop, made the cover

    Looks awesome. I subscribed to Home Shop Machinist for many years, i stopped i think due to the projects that where getting published at that time not being of much interest to me. May have to give them a second look.
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    DRILL DOCTOR 750X BIT SHARPENER, $75, Red Deer, AB

    I wouldn't bother trying to sharpen drills any smaller than 1/4 inch by hand, not worth the time or effort, 1/2 inch and larger are a lot more expensive and not difficult to sharpen. Way back in the dark ages i took a course on machine shop, first thing we made was a drill gauge. The instructor...
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    Internet on my phone.

    Well peace and tranquility have been restored in the household. My laptop is operational again, no more screwing with a little screen and keyboard and cussing the damn phone when trying to scroll and crap pops up. Damn phone is so sensitive even one of my boys commented on that, he tried to...
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    New member

    Welcome from SK.
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    New Member from Ottawa

    Welcome from SK.
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    DRILL DOCTOR 750X BIT SHARPENER, $75, Red Deer, AB

    Better yet learn to sharpen drill bits by hand. It's not rocket science. :)
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    Tips/Techniques using emery on a lathe

    I was taught to use emery cloth backed up with a file, or a flat piece of steel, preferably with a handle on it.
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    Princess Auto tools

    I bought one of those, the hoist not the dodge. Haven't totally lost my mind yet. Anyway, the hoist was bought to aid in loading critters, dead critters, such as deer and moose. Didn't work for moose at all. For what I paid for the hoist I couldn't build one though, even if I had all the material.
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    Internet on my phone.

    Now that flip phones are back in style, I wonder if my old bag phone will come back around?
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    Landslide in BC

    Hmm, here in flat land that is not always possible. We don't have a lot of land slides, land flying around in the wind is possible though.:)
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