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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. Ironman

    Adapting a boring head

    It could be NMT40, I unscrewed the pull stud because my drawbar goes in that hole. The reason I think it is CAT40 is the mill is European, I have one driving ear removed, as it engages with one and the other interferes, because the spindle is a NMT. The Narex is a joy to use
  2. Ironman

    Adapting a boring head

    When I bought my boring tool, it came with an R8 shank, and so did my mill. And then I sold the mill and got something more ridgid, and with a CAT40 spindle. I have no idea if any of you use this type of spindle, but I thought it may be useful, so... I initially thought meh, I'll just get...
  3. Ironman

    Miller 180 Autoset

    Yep, Mike same here. I saw that comment in an old forum post and I can't even remember the forum. Anyway, Miller was silly enough to send me a questionnaire about how I liked it. So I told them. And also about the unobtanium plastic hinges that broke on the side cover. Exactly like the Lincoln I...
  4. Ironman

    Miller 180 Autoset

    This is what I have always heard as well, so I was eager to get it. I did notice on old post that some people had figured out how to disable the hotstart feature by pulling off a wire. That whole curcuit board is different in this one.
  5. Ironman

    Miller 180 Autoset

    I recently sold off my Lincoln 180 and bought a new Miller Autoset. I have become totally unimpressed with the Autoset. It starts so hot that it burns back into the tip and then birdnests. I suspect they have incorporated a hotstart feature into it and it reacts too slow to deal with the wire...
  6. Ironman

    Ham Steak. $1.88 in 2019 $5.99 this past week

    Freezers are a great tool, and as long as meat is shrink wrapped so no air gets to it, it is going to keep. I wonder how come people will buy dried beef to gnaw on, and throw out freezer burned (dried) hamburger. My wife says Don't be foolish...
  7. Ironman

    Ham Steak. $1.88 in 2019 $5.99 this past week

    1959
  8. Ironman

    Ham Steak. $1.88 in 2019 $5.99 this past week

    It dawned on me this morning that rural people have another advantage, in food trading. Inevitably I grow more food than we need, so we give food to those who need it. They in turn give us what they can, in food or labour. Yesterday we recieved 40 packages containing 2 frozen Atlantic lobsters...
  9. Ironman

    Looking for non-US made angle grinder

    Milwalkee - made in China
  10. Ironman

    The hypocrisy and unfairness in schooling

    This is a vitally important truth. It cannot be ever ignored. I see it daily where the fake news media will use a false statement in or near the headline, and build off that. One of the favoured terms is the get-out-of-jail card "allegedly," or a reports of a credible source....
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