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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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    Tips/Techniques Show your shop related 3DP

    My drill press quill depth adjusting nuts would never stay put. They are both knurled, but never tight enough using my fingers and kept vibrating loose. A extra nudge with a pair of pliers did the trick, but it was annoying. So I made this drill press quill depth adjusting screw clamp, which is...
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    Supplies Sourcing a special Tap and Die in Canada

    I don't know if these guys can help you, but they have made some specialty taps for me before and I was really please with them. ESTABLISHED IN 1918, Taylor Tool is a leading Canadian innovator in the manufacturing of special taps, reamers and dies. Excellent product quality and overall...
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    Need Fastener Engineer Skill Set

    Whydontu, you are asking for an engineering advise. if in doubt I would get a second opinion just to be safe. I was asked to seal shut the large flange on the hadronic end cap of the Atlas detector at Cern. This vessel was about 25' in dia with something like 150 bolts and a large omega...
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    Shake my head sometimes

    I had been waiting for an Ali express parcel for a very long time. It finally showed up in my mail box, I quickly open it, to realized they screw up the order big time. Duh! it was not mine but my neighbors . I felt so guilty bad , I had open someone parcel. I drove over to the correct...
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    Need Fastener Engineer Skill Set

    Like Van123d mention " it's a compromise in an attempt to solve fitter training issue". You can't fix stupid Were I worked we had vessels with 3 feet diameter flanges and a small 1/8 " dia copper gasket sealing around the perimeter and 60 some bolts to tighten the whole assembly together. It...
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    Ottawa area BBQ and swap meet this Summer

    When I first saw the Aylmer gathering post, I thought great, that's not to far. But that is Aylmer Ontario not Aylmer Quebec which is less than 20 km away. Bummer, Alymer Ontario is a 7hrs drive. Then I saw Slow poke invite YES, that a 15 minute drive, count me in!
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    Tips/Techniques Vernier caliper mod to be able to measure dividers and trammel

    Initially, when In saw it in the manual, I couldn't come up with an idea of how to put the dimples really close. Then saw Whydontu post suggesting a 200" gap, I though it would work well. .200" is also very close to 5mm ( 5.08). Drilling the dimples on the top side provides a direct view of the...
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    Tips/Techniques Vernier caliper mod to be able to measure dividers and trammel

    After looking at the Starrett manual" Tool and rules" that Chazz linked in his post in “Little Machine Shop Special of the Week:” https://qqp.mypresswise.com/user/images/STARRETT/Starrett%20Tools%20and%20Rules%20(Bulletin%201211).pdf They showed a vernier caliper with the two dimples to...
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    de-magnetize digital calipers

    I made one similar to Janger out of an aluminum blank and it surprisingly work very well. I have demagnetize lots of allen keys and drill bits with great success. I have four small magnets and the poles are alternated on mine.
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    Little Machine Shop Special of the Week

    On page 24 of the precision measuring book they show that some vernier have some indentation for setting a divider or trammel. That would be useful, I often try to measure the distance of the divider and have to guesstimate the measurements because of the difficulty to align both tips , the...
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