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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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    Shop Powerfeed

    The two burnt parts look like resisters from the dogbone shape. That is an unusual pcb in that the silkscreen appears to be the component values. Example. 4004 is a 4004 diode. There is a 0.33 next to a likely 0.33uf cap. What is throwing me off is the 333 number with what appears to be a...
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    foam for custom cases

    I am not an expert in this at all but I have been looking at options for case foam similar to you. I just built a diode laser cutter to do some custom cases and some gasket work. I find that when looking for things that I am unfamiliar with learning the proper name is the toughest part. Once...
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    Proximity sensors??

    In my career I have a similar but different issue. I need to measure lens actuator movements at a micron level accuracy but I cannot contact the lens as it would interfere with the measurement and the glass surface is transparent. I use an opaque PVD coating on the front lens surface and a...
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    Spend my money!

    If you are looking to start a new hobby of 3d printing I would recommend the Creality. Creality is a great entry point for a lot of people, the hardware is cheap enough to get you in and you can upgrade parts to improve the quality or functionality as needed. But Creality will usually need...
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    Tool Help 300lb table crane - must be some mechanical engineers around here?

    The original design, the tension in the turnbuckle on the left is being used to cancel to moment force generated by the weight at the end of the boom. Your proposed design, without this element, will want to twist itself apart. You are relying on your welds to hold everything together, they have...
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    First Milling Machine $452 Mississauga Ont

    My understanding is that it is their clone of a Bridgeport 1.5HP. Only First has made some upgrades including a 2HP motor. Their naming convention is what the equivalent Bridgeport would be. That’s the explanation I found when I got mine and had the same question at least.
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    GovDeals Auction: Surface Grinder 3

    I wonder what earned it the "NFG" label.
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    Milling machine tools Ontario

    Moore and wright box looks like bearing scrapers to me.
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    Other Vevor ultrasonic cleaners?

    I have used an iSonic 2.5L cleaner from Amazon for the past 5 years. https://www.amazon.ca/iSonic-P4820-WSB-Commercial-Ultrasonic-Stainless/dp/B00HLBKNLW I use it pretty regularly between firearms, carburetors, and machinery parts. I have been pretty happy with the performance. This heats up...
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    Tips/Techniques Using ER Collets

    Thanks everyone. I saw the ER system as inconvenient compared to the R8. I figured for me it would be when the extra precision is desired or for the odd size end mill such as metric that I don’t have an R8 collet for. I am a bit surprised that people are using them in preference to the R8. I...
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