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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. BMW Rider

    New Firepower TIG/Stick welder

    It's working quite well for my needs. It is a 110v only welder, that means it has less output amperage and limits the thickness of material that it can weld. That is fine for me, I can weld heaver steel with my MIG and doubt I'll ever need to weld aluminum over 1/8". If they still have the deal...
  2. BMW Rider

    New Firepower TIG/Stick welder

    To be honest, there wasn't so much design put into it as evolution. I just kept rearranging things as I needed. But it is pretty functional now. I have had a bit of time to play around with the welder. For never having used TIG before, I'm finding it relatively straight forward with mild...
  3. BMW Rider

    Oxy-Accetylene suppliers

    I've always just exchanged cylinders at Air Liqude. I go to the store off Barlow and 27th NE
  4. BMW Rider

    New Firepower TIG/Stick welder

    The paint was a lucky match for colour; it was just Krylon rust paint from Canadian tire.
  5. BMW Rider

    New Firepower TIG/Stick welder

    KMS tools had this little unit on sale this month with an additional reduction for the three day sale. It's a Firepower 140 TIG/ Stick welder and came with the optional foot pedal as well. Seems like a perfect little unit to supplement my Miller 211 MIG. I won't need it to weld much over 1/8...
  6. BMW Rider

    Oxy-Accetylene suppliers

    I have always just exchanged mine at Air Liquide. I bought the cylinders from them a long time ago and have always just exchanged them for filled ones. I can't say what the pricing is though, I haven't needed any in quite a while. For some welding gases, KMS will refill bottles for pretty good...
  7. BMW Rider

    New member in Calgary

    I added a DRO to my CX601 if you want to ask questions or come look at the install for ideas once you get to that task.
  8. BMW Rider

    New NW member

    The GS is a great bike, I've ridden it pretty hard at times and have done a lot of modifications and additions to it since buying it new to suit my needs. I've made a set of handle bar risers to work with the steering damper I added, a GPS mount, driving light mounts that go on the crash bars...
  9. BMW Rider

    New NW member

    I have two bikes myself, an 08 BMW K1200GT and an 09 BMW F800GS. The other two bikes in the garage are my wife's 02 Triumph Bonneville and 08 BMW F800ST.
  10. BMW Rider

    New NW member

    Hi, I'm Ed a 26 year firefighter here in Calgary and former auto mechanic. Always good to have some local contacts and people share knowledge with. I work out of my home shop and I have a BusyBee tools CX 701 lathe and CX601 milling machine as well as welding equipment, metal working equipment...
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