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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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    Dabblings

    With all the fleur de lis and I heart Trudeau stickers on my car I would chance a quick jaunt into cowtown say when something big is going on like a CHWM meetup or a lesser event like the stampede but not chancing anything outside city limits unless I am going 140!!
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    Dabblings

    Glad to hear you made it home safely and enjoyed the trip, it was a pleasure to meet you last week, hopefully someday I will get out west again and meet more of the Calgary clan.
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    Shop executor?

    Your lucky day!! I am going to change my will and add you in, I will leave you all my swarf at my time of passing even the expensive bronze and brass stuff!!
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    Southbend

    Sold!
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    Gage blocks, $120, Hamilton, ON

    The way I see it's straight up karma Craig's (edit) unselfish work and great personality should be rewarded with wonderful outcomes and great stories from it. You don't get days like that working for a living that's for sure. Enjoy the gages, doesn't take long to find uses for them.
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    Whelp, there goes the neighborhood.

    Nothing like a bit of space to get the mind wandering of what would go good there. I have to confess to some reorganizing in my shop too, I think I stared into the pictures of those clean shops too long and it burnt into my retinas! and I admit it now I will (gasp) be doing more, the worlds...
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    Whelp, there goes the neighborhood.

    Floor space? counter space? I thought you were one of us?? Those clamps even look like you put them there on purpose:)
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    Ontario meetup, April 6

    Similar feelings here a wonderful day and thanks to the organizers an the hosts you where very welcoming and provided us with a great representation of the work you do and the tools that you do it with. I wish you lots of success in your future opportunities in this amazing profession. I also...
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    Eclipse

    The eclipse was awesome once in a lifetime experience for me found a spot south of the 401 near Iroquois watched from about a quarter covered till a quarter after the total eclipse. What amazed me was how little of a sliver of the sun is needed to give a low light and how fast it went black...
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    Tips/Techniques Threading Basics from April 6 Toronto Meet

    Thanks for posting your Tips/Techniques for threading it definitely was a lot to take in so it will great to be able to go back to this reference to fill any of the gaps. I got down to the shop for a bit and cut a practice 1/2 13 thread and it was improvement from past results by doing a few...
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