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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. MrWhoopee

    Modular collet rack

    I feel like such a cave man.
  2. MrWhoopee

    Product Vise Stop!

    Here's the one I use most of the time. Then there's the one that clamps on the jaw and the one that bolts to the table. You can never have too many. I still need to make one that has a step for the stepped jaws. Seems I'm always switching from step to parallels and having to switch stops.
  3. MrWhoopee

    Welcome to Westwood Metalworks, What is he building in there?

    I'll tell you one thing, he's not building a playhouse for the children
  4. MrWhoopee

    Tool Cheap alternatives to expensive tools thread

    The Japanese company that bought Fred's shop made high-speed labeling machines. They hired a Brit to write their manuals. The Chinese seem to have missed that lesson, though sometimes even English can be difficult for Americans.
  5. MrWhoopee

    Tool Cheap alternatives to expensive tools thread

    Some years ago I was explaining to an old friend (who had not done well and dropped out of HS), that it wasn't about learning the answers, it was about learning how to figure out the answers. She exclaimed "I wish someone had told me that back then!" You never learn something so well as when...
  6. MrWhoopee

    Cool Tools in your home shop that you'd not likely not see in someone else's?

    I wanted to make a small home security device that would produce the sound of a shell being racked into the chamber of a 12 ga.
  7. MrWhoopee

    Cool Tools in your home shop that you'd not likely not see in someone else's?

    Vertical vise that triples as angle plate and two-piece table vise.
  8. MrWhoopee

    External Jaws for a 3 jaw

    ^^^This^^^ If you have actually found the orphaned jaws to fit your chuck, you should not only buy them, you should also buy a lottery ticket.
  9. MrWhoopee

    what's with these holes?

    Do you see that rabbit-hole opening beneath your feet?
  10. MrWhoopee

    Tips/Techniques Urban and traffic planning

    I thought the exact same thing, the year was 1970.
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