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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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    Kurt vise reversed jaws?

    "Does anyone recognize this brand and suggestions for replacement jaw source?" I have what looks to be the same vise and it's an older Busy Bee purchase. Mine has the holes to mount the reverse jaws. Thanks for starting this post, I may of never found out this option. Do you have the base to...
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    How to figure out the 3 wire measurement for a BSW thread

    Yay, I found a whitworth calculator which give me a spec for its different thread classes 1 Close, 2 Medium and 3 Free. I plugged in my numbers into the calculator and got the following. Pitch dia for close is 20.363mm ( 0.816") medium is 20.3365mm (0.8006")...
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    How to figure out the 3 wire measurement for a BSW thread

    I wasn't able to find an easy peasy plug in numbers calculator on the web. Probably because this whitworth thread was developed in 1841 and it is no longer used in the industry. It always amazes me what they were able to accomplish with so little back in the early 1900. So instead of trying to...
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    How to figure out the 3 wire measurement for a BSW thread

    Proxule, I will definitely bookmark that page. Thank you. I was just now looking to see what class would be the screw I made. BSW ( close, medium and free or garbage ) But the calculation are beyond my math skills, ( radical notation went right over my head ) I wish there was a similar site...
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    How to figure out the 3 wire measurement for a BSW thread

    Super, thank you so much Using my .063" wires I should measure .8974" over the 3 wires. I made a screw earlier and it measured .882 , over the wires, no wonder it was loose. It is hard to properly cut a screw thread without using the 3 wire measuring method. I usually can wing it using a nut...
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    How to figure out the 3 wire measurement for a BSW thread

    I am trying to cut a BSW thread 7/8" 9tpi. My three wire gauge set only has chart for 60 degree threads Metric or Standard imperial. Is there a chart using the same wire but for a 55 degree thread?
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    Tool Rag Ripper 3D print files

    Perfect tool for the garden. I will mount it on my garden cart, beside my large spool of twine string. I also use a lot of bed sheet cut in strips and tie my veggie plants with and some sheets are hard to start to rip. Thanks for posting!
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    Fixerup patch up

    A few years ago I bought an old style thread chaser, the one which has exchangeable dies. I never used it and thought it would be useful if I converted it into a large tap handle. It now can be used to drive taps or square shanks from 3/8 to 5/8". No modifications were done to the original...
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    How to dress a diamond edge cutting wheel

    I found out that white aluminum oxide stone 1 or 2 steps finer grit than the CBN wheel you are about to dress is adequate to deglaze your CBN wheel. They recommend to start your grinder let it get to speed and then turn it off, then slowly begin dressing the grinding wheel until it comes to a...
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    Wife's christmas gift... aka present to myself.

    I had a rental and needed to repair the shower grout asap, a small water stain was showing on the ceiling bellow. There was section which was grout less, the tiles had almost no spacing in between. I bought a small diamond coated blade aka grout remover with curvy handle and surface scratch...
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