• Scam Alert. Members are reminded to NOT send money to buy anything. Don't buy things remote and have it shipped - go get it yourself, pay in person, and take your equipment with you. Scammers have burned people on this forum. Urgency, secrecy, excuses, selling for friend, newish members, FUD, are RED FLAGS. A video conference call is not adequate assurance. Face to face interactions are required. Please report suspicions to the forum admins. Stay Safe - anyone can get scammed.
  • 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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    10 little things we hate about the internet.

    The internet only want 2 things your time and your money. The content you want won't load but the 4 ads around it load and refresh 3 times. Side banner ads on both sides flashing whatever and your content is in #2 font. Porn site algorithms Online flyers Sponsored! only 2 links from a search...
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    The Scammers Must Never Sleep

    A snip from a facebook scammer, the original ad was for cheap tool box takes you to this site which I won't post the url it looked like a character generator puked but what and interesting company name they have and no matter the size all the tool boxes are the same price.:D:D:D..
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    RSVP Here for the Calgary meetup April 20/2024 - 10:30 AM

    Looks like a great turnout for today! I hope everyone enjoys the meetup and has lots of fun!
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    Tips/Techniques Threading Basics from April 6 Toronto Meet

    Its doesn't look like they are online yet or its just kbc search engine quirks but its a good idea, I thought about that for acme inserts buy 10 packs of a group of sizes and then make up packs to resell them amongst the group 2 inserts per size would probably last most guys a lifetime.
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    Show us your pups

    I believe we are all given opportunities to see nature in some of the most fascinating ways but we miss out sometimes because we don't take it in. Recently I was on a walk and a crow in a tree caught my attention, as it flew out of the tree it looked like it was going to land in a yard across...
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    Tips/Techniques Threading Basics from April 6 Toronto Meet

    Ok thanks, I wondered how they identified the pitches that it could cut, ag 8-48tpi sure seems a lot to ask out of a little insert but I did cut an 8tpi internal with it which was challenging but I was able to get it on about half way at the end of shift last night so a little investigation into...
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    Tips/Techniques Threading Basics from April 6 Toronto Meet

    Here is a couple of my inserts I have the numbers are mmt16IR AG60 UE6020 and mmt11IR AG60 UE6020 would the first one be considered a full profile the not much of a radius on it but does have a form type bump looking similar. The smaller one doesn't have any bump so I guess its just a v...
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    Tips/Techniques Cutting High Strength Steel Forging

    I don't know if you have something like this indexable facemill not sure if it would be any faster...
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    Dabblings

    50's roll out of your pocket like 5's then 10's then 20's did. Received a nice 66 in a 50 tax the other day in the mail just my pleasure to hand over $80 more. Could have gotten a good set of adjustable parallels with that money;).
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    My first big job

    Through the evolution of my work, I am becoming more involved in parts, recently it was discovered that the drawings of a couple of parts had an error in them an would have to recalled and fixed up luckily in both cases it was extra material that needed to be removed first off was a paddle...
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