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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

    The hypocrisy and unfairness in schooling

    My little brother was a pilot, and early his career he worked as a flight instructor. I would have loved to be in the back for one flight with a new student. They had reasonable altitude, and whatever they were doing, they ended up nose down and gaining speed. My brother told the student "You...
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    Craftex lathe

    Did you get it for $1110? Smoking deal if you did!!! Congratulations in any case. Looks good.
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    Western KWL2 624 Lathe, Courtenay, $2,000

    Nice looking machine at a reasonable price. (Assuming average wear)
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    The hypocrisy and unfairness in schooling

    I actually had an English prof I really appreciated in University. And this is from someone that got kicked out of grade 11 English - it was the teacher's fault, honest! We had a fairly large section of the course studying a book called "The Magus." The prof actually did his PhD on how the...
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    Tips/Techniques looking to identify lathe

    The other factor is what can you afford/ willing to spend and does this lathe fit within that price range. It’s an older lathe, and not a popular brand (Southbend has a certain mystique) so I wouldn’t pay a lot for it. My guess would be $500-1000. Based on some very small pictures and no...
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    Hello from Vancouver

    Welcome from across the straight in Campbell River! It might take some time, but the hunt is half the fun! Check often. Good deals tend to go fast.
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    Schematics and Circuit Board layout with Fusion 360

    Hey @djberta: I sent you a PM.
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    Schematics and Circuit Board layout with Fusion 360

    Sent you a PM
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    Mystery lathe, for real

    My offer would be: "I'll help you unwrap it."
  10. Tomc938

    Flashing an ESP32 for TouchDRO

    OK, Since there is interest in getting some TouchDRO boards going, I will share the steps off the Hobby-Machinist that I followed to get everything working. First a word of caution (@slow-poke already shared this, but): You have to get and ESP32-DevKitC core board ESP32 development board...
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