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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

    Links are not highlighted

    Bugger!! The links show in a different color on my iPhone but not on my iPad. Of course different versions of iOS so I can’t easily compare settings. They do show up in Firefox on the iPad, but not in safari.
  2. Johnwa

    Links are not highlighted

    I’ve noticed that some links are not highlighted in anyway. An example is in the Parkinson miller thread @quitereal posted a link to lathes.uk. All that shows is the title with no indication that it is a link. I posted exactly the same thing with the same result. Facebook links show up as a...
  3. Johnwa

    Oxy fuel brazing brass

    With brazing or soldering the base metal has to be as hot as the rod or solder you are using but doesn’t melt. So you can braze material that has a higher melting point than your brass rod. Since you’re doing brass on brass I would call it welding.
  4. Johnwa

    Trip to the sewing store

    I got sent to a local sewing store yesterday to pick up an EZ oiler. It looks like a handy item and came filled with oil! Here’s a video
  5. Johnwa

    McMaster Carr no longer integrated with Fusion 360?

    I learned fusion with early versions of Lar’s tutorials. It was really frustrating when fusion changed their menus and made those tutorials obsolete. Has anyone asked autodesk for help? I did once. My response to their help was that if I knew fusion enough to understood all the acronyms and...
  6. Johnwa

    ER40 collet chuck sizes.

    Same experience have ER11 on my 3018(toy) CNC router. I did buy an imperial ¼” collet for the occasional times I can use a larger endmill. The 1/8” tooling I use is actually 3mm so metric is fine. For my R8 mill I have a set of imperial collets and at least 1 metric 10mm collet to fit a...
  7. Johnwa

    Parkinson No. 1NA Miller Machine - Edmonton

    https://www.lathes.co.uk/parkson/page2.html
  8. Johnwa

    Lincoln electric migpak 140 welder set, $1200, Calgary, AB

    $970 at Canadian tire, without the cart, bottle and other accessories.
  9. Johnwa

    Please help me to choose a lathe for my project

    Have you checked out the makerspaces in Vancouver. Google shows that there a quite a few. The focus and equipment will vary but there should be at least one that has a good size lathe.
  10. Johnwa

    Crawford lathe cone drive conundrum...

    On my Southbend the cap is part of the casting with a saw slot cut in the front. There is a sandwich of fine shims that go in the slot There is one bolt that is tightened up against the shims to squeeze that cut. . The idea is that as the spindle/bore wears, shims are removed. I would imagine...
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