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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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    Sticky What Machines Do You have?

    No, I don't do a lot of woodworking now the bike build has sort of taken over my life.
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    Tool Tangential tool holders.

    I made these tangential tool holders a while back, along with some standard type holders with diffenet rakes on them. To sharpen the bits for the tangentials I also made a simple jig. The tangentials don't get a lot of use, I prefer the standard type, they give better access to the job...
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    An appetiser, 74 TX650 rebuid.

    After converting to VM34s, there was a jumble of hoses, adapters and joiners under the tank, very untidy, so, I made a fuel distributor block that sits under the front lip of the battery carrier I made a while back. The VM carbs have 8mm fuel inlets and the petcock outlets are 6mm. I chucked...
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    Drones.

    Maybe I'm just not a good a pilot a you.
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    Recumbent trikes and bikes.

    Just over 20 years ago I started designing, buiding and riding recumbent bikes and trikes, three bikes and nine trikes. The bikes were very fast, but not as much fun as the trikes. The first few were pretty rudimentry and had flat back seats, but provided input for design considerations...
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    lathe repairs.

    Not that long ago, my 10 year old lathe needed new switchgear, as all the plastic fell apart. It had a latching on/off switch which was wired through a safety switch on the chuck guard and a rotary switch for forward/reverse. I rang around to a few industrial ectrician shops who specialised in...
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    Drones.

    The only problem with flying by the screen is. If you're out bush, one tree looks the same as the next.
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    Scissor knurler.

    If it looks ok and performs ok it is, OK. Looking under magnification to see if the pyramids are perfecty formed is just ridiculous. You can bet your life that any commercialy available item with knurling would not pas the magnification test.
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    Sticky What Machines Do You have?

    Belt grinder for wood, spins at half the speed as a belt grinder so as not to burn the wood.
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    Sticky What Machines Do You have?

    I did have some trade tools I bought after starting my first job, but left them in Perth when I joined the RAAF. So I had to start again in 75. Only basic tools, vice, bench grinder, blower type spray painter and spanners, sockets screwdrivers, etc, which was all I had until I got married in...
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