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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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    Solitary Bee House

    I am really glad you are not my next door neighbor, my tenant bee would quickly move out and set up in yours. Very well done. I didn't know you needed to cleaned it out. Maybe that is why my low rental unit has been less populated over the years, but still active after 5years. This winter I made...
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    Tool post identification

    I should of mentioned the lathe is about a 5" X 12" . I didn't know they made shaft belt driven mini lathe. The picture does make it look much bigger. When he first sent me the picture I thought it was at least a 8'' X 24" , it also came with two ceiling mount pulley drive. If I do make a 4...
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    Tool post identification

    Here is what the lathe looks like
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    Tool post identification

    I am trying to help a kid refurbishing a no name antique lathe. The tool post it came with doesn't look like the original or it is missing some parts . The base of the tool post is interesting. The round knurled knob on the left is made to adjust the tool angle. The top of the tool post base...
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    Metal Lathe ( Atlas model 618 ), $700, Toledo, ON

    It looks like one of the bearing block for the leadscrew is missing.
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    Fixerup patch up

    I had this glass suction lifting bar and the rubber cups became really hard and no longer held vacuum. Decided to recycle it into a 1 1/2' round die holder, which I did not have. Enlarged the hole and added 2 grub screws and handle. A nice enjoyable hour spent in the shop making a super simple...
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    Tips/Techniques Show your shop related 3DP

    For a lantern tool post setup .004" is plenty good enough. If i was to make another one, I would like it to be able to reach the tool bit in the final position. Now i set the tool height , then swivel the tool holder to align the tool cutter to the work piece and finally lock down the lantern...
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    Tips/Techniques Show your shop related 3DP

    Lathe cutter height tool which can be mounted in the headstock or the tailstock. Skateboard bearing and a bubble level tube. If I put a .004'' shim on top of the cutter the bubble will be able to show the difference. The front adjusting screw make it easy to adjust and lock it in on center...
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    Tips/Techniques Hand fitting for an interference fit?

    I forgot I had a shear tool. I made one years ago, I will look for it and park it with my go to lathe tools bits because it did work very well. With the shear tool and the top slide at 14.5', it will help with my sneak up technic to get the final measurement much better.
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    Tips/Techniques Hand fitting for an interference fit?

    For accurate dimensions, I take my time and slowly creep up to the final measurements. Sometimes I have success taking a spring pass, it will take out up to a ~.0005" or less, the second spring pass ~ .00025" the last spring almost nothing. If I don't hit the final dimension after that i...
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