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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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    Lathe pecking order 8-12"

    TOS Trencin (now made in Slovakia, formerly Czechoslovakia) are beautifully made lathes but they are big and heavy duty industrial lathes. Also, condition is very, very important.
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    Making a Single Tooth Square Broach

    From a long forgotten Canadian inventor, master mechanic, hobbyist and TSME (Toronto Society of Model Engineers) member (from his private publication) "The Master Mechanics' Manual, Volume One by Le Comte de Millimetres" (George Barrett). One can make ANY regular or odd size square broach with...
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    How to Re-Glue Certain Separated Belt Sanding Belts

    To continue. The cut off piece of bi-directional filament tape is then set over the glue aligned ends of the abrasive belt. It has a glued side on it and this side is the one set over the glue aligned ends of the abrasive belt. Then, with a wallpaper seam roller, roll flat the filament tape on...
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    How to Re-Glue Certain Separated Belt Sanding Belts

    Hi All, I have a number of different 1" wide abrasive belts purchased over the years for my belt sander which I use a lot. For some reason after about six months, whether used or not, the reinforced glued joint on these belts has separated on me. Now, these belts are not that expensive to buy...
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    Want Something Different- A Little Bit More Complicated?

    No, I haven't got up the courage to have a go at it yet. Some of the holes have to be plugged after drilling where there are dark ends shown on the ends of the passages. And yes, water does flow through some of the passages and steam through others.
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    Want Something Different- A Little Bit More Complicated?

    Hi All, Here is something you can try. It is an all drilling project with a #50 and and a #53 drill. All of the passages have to intersect as shown and you cannot make any error in position, angle or depth. It is one piece of a larger unit.
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    Miniature Pin Cross Drilling

    Hi All, To continue - now I need your input. These 3/4" scale silicon bronze cast live steam half coupler bodies were silver soldered together successfully recently. But as you can see this process badly (oxidized(?) or discoloured(?) or both) the bronze. What I would like to do is to restore...
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    Miniature Pin Cross Drilling

    Hi All, Have you ever had to cross drill a miniature pin? It is easy to do but everything is preparation. The pins in question had to be cross drilled at the end with a #63 drill so that a 1/32" dia. cotter pin could be passed through. The first photo is of the items needed to do this in my...
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