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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. Johnwa

    Antique Metal Lathe $100 Strathmore, AB

    It’s a Moody lathe made in Quebec. It’s largely based on the 9” Southbend but has a much beefier headstock with roller bearings. Swing is 11”. Although dirty and grimy it hasn’t seen much use. All I wanted was the legs and thread dial. However since all it’s missing is the xslide gib...
  2. Johnwa

    Unique drill sharpener

    It grinds both flutes at the same time. The construction looks sketchy but the concept is interesting. https://www.thousandat.com/products/drill-grinding-2
  3. Johnwa

    Tool South Bend 9A screws?

    My problem was too much backlash, I didn’t have to convert to imperial. The new nut solved the backlash problem. He may not have to change his dials. My dials go from 0 to 100 and measure in thousandth how much I’m taking off the radius. If it were 0 to 200 then it would indicate how much...
  4. Johnwa

    Tool South Bend 9A screws?

    I bought a x slide screw and nut quite a few years ago. IIRC the set was well under $100. Prices sure have increased! On ebay.COM you can still find nuts for under $50. I also found 36”of 1/2-10 LH acme rod for under $25. This is all US$ and without shipping. The suggested way for machining...
  5. Johnwa

    Dabblings

    My oldest sister has an egg allergy. Since the smallpox vaccine is grown in eggs it would never take for her. As an older adult she was working in a cancer research lab and had to have all her shots up to date and the shot finally took. Between the allergic reaction and the vaccine it was so...
  6. Johnwa

    Missing Images....

    All the images in this thread are showing on my IPad IOS 17.5.1.
  7. Johnwa

    Cheap horizontal bandsaw - $200, lakefield, on

    There is a piece added outboard of the vice fixed jaw. It would helps support thin material or material that can’t be held securely in the vice.
  8. Johnwa

    World's Cheapest shop, OR Luddite's CAD replacement tool

    ??
  9. Johnwa

    Cheap horizontal bandsaw - $200, lakefield, on

    Interesting idea
  10. Johnwa

    Macros w Smart Phones

    I can’t see any of them except the chart you posted.
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