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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. GlenG

    CTIRE, Mastercraft Plasma Cutter?

    Wondering if anyone has any experience with the subject Plasma cutter? It's a dual voltage pilot arc unit that retails for ~$750
  2. GlenG

    Best place for economical tools

    I gotta say Amazon (including Accusize) are my go to. I’ve never had a problem making returns the few times something i got a dud.
  3. GlenG

    Metal Spinning

    Hi, I was just visiting a pewter store while i was on vacation and now I’m intrigued by metal spinning. Who has done it? Where did you get your supplies? What equipment did you use, metal lathe or wood lathe? Generally, just interested to hear what others may have to add to the discussion
  4. GlenG

    Oven Temperature Controller

    As others have said they generally come in two flavours the 25 and the 40. I just picked the 40 for over kill and future growth.
  5. GlenG

    Oven Temperature Controller

    Here are some more pictures of the controller inside and out: Top Box has PID and input for the Thermocouple: Bottom box has power in, fuse, SSR, power out and switch (one unit):
  6. GlenG

    Dro installed and air spring

    Did you get the Air spring there as well or did you pick it up from Littlemachineshop.com?
  7. GlenG

    Another Amazon Deal - Nicholson File

    Yup, great deal, just added one to my cart.
  8. GlenG

    Oven Temperature Controller

    Before modified I ran it up to 400, haven’t had a chance to run it up that high since i modified it.
  9. GlenG

    Oven Temperature Controller

    ^^This. Dead simple as you can see from the PID connection diagram in the top corner of Craig’s image.
  10. GlenG

    Oven Temperature Controller

    Not too much to add in terms of details, almost everything was from Amazon or Wish. There are any number of PID kits that include the PID controller, SSR, thermocouple and the heat sink (make sure you get a heat sink in the kit, I made a mistake and had to but one separately). I picked a PID...
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