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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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  1. Tomc938

    Peavey Mart Closing

    This is sad.
  2. Tomc938

    Emco Unimat 3 metal lathe $400 Merrickville on

    Nice looking machine!
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    Schematics and Circuit Board layout with Fusion 360

    Sure. A quick review: My mill and lathe came with DROs that kind of work, but not well, and they are 80's tech. The mill only had one axis that worked, and the lathe has lots of issues with burned out segments in the display. After looking around for options, TouchDRO came highly recommended...
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    Lantane 12x36? Lathe $500 Mission BC

    Looks like maybe it did a faceplant?
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    Schematics and Circuit Board layout with Fusion 360

    As far as them populating the boards you order from them, I misread the website. It would be about $30 PER BOARD on an order of 10. Depends on how many discrete components and through holes there are. But if you had something you wanted to build a few of it would make sense, in my mind, to...
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    Schematics and Circuit Board layout with Fusion 360

    So time for an update: I took a run at those boards, but man the components are small! Thanks for asking! I kind of forgot about this thread with everything happening with them the last few weeks. So I was waiting for connectors to comes through CP, and they arrived a couple weeks ago. I...
  7. Tomc938

    Tool Caliper with broken screw

    Are you looking to buy a bolt? In person, or online? If you have a good place you can go in person, take the thumbnut with you and try before you buy. If you have to order, order a bunch of sizes and use the one that fits. (shipping will likely be the largest portion of cost) If none of them...
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    Tool Caliper with broken screw

    If you can't find the screw size, you could always go just a shade bigger, turn down the end where it goes into the leg and then tap the thumbscrew to match. Original screw would be best.
  9. Tomc938

    Oh GREAT!

    Google occasionally uses AI to answer a question I give it. I'm not sure of the reason why it does that. Doesn't do it for every question I ask. When it does, the AI information is almost always 1) misleading/ off topic or 2) totally useless. I read not too long ago that a ChatGPT query uses...
  10. Tomc938

    Ex-cell-o grinder, $200, Ayr, ON

    Would match my mill nicely. Looks like it's built like a tank. Great price.
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