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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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    Stanko 1A983 Semi- Auto Lathe, Nisku, AB

    I’m a couple hours east of Edmonton. Originally from Ontario, moved out here 7-8 years ago, best thing I ever did career and financially.
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    Colchester mascot 1600, gcsurplus auction, Dartmouth, NS

    Only 4700 kms away. I do have friends there though….wonder if they’d stash it in a garage for me? Lol That is a nice lathe though, with all the bells and whistles from the looks of it.
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    Tips/Techniques Urban and traffic planning

    I was supposed to be heading to Winnipeg this weekend, to pick up my new to me bandsaw/cut off saw. With 15-25 cms forecast for most of the trek, it’s getting postponed. It’s 1100 kms each way, I don’t need the hassle of a snowstorm to drive through.
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    Stanko 1A983 Semi- Auto Lathe, Nisku, AB

    First line of the ad, shows spindle bore of 12.6” diameter. I’m mildly looking for a larger lathe, it also depends on timing because I currently don’t have the real estate. Specs I would be looking for would be 3-4” spindle bore, 22-26” swing, and 12’ between centres. I can make small stuff in...
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    Shop New to me equipment coming.

    I’ve found 3-5 and 4-6 varipitch blades available. I think there’s three blades with it. I’ll have to do some hunting to find a fine tooth blade for thin stuff.
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    Tips/Techniques Urban and traffic planning

    Having spent years in Ontario, and now 7-8 years in the west, there is nothing in the prairies that compares traffic wise to the GTA. Heck even Ottawa is worse than the prairie cities.
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    Tips/Techniques Urban and traffic planning

    Or start downtown, and two hours later REACH the 401.
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    Tool Gauge Blocks - Am I the only one with missing/extras

    Will take a look in the next day or two and see what I have.
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    Tool Gauge Blocks - Am I the only one with missing/extras

    Just got home today, I’ll try to get that into the mail for you, will lilely be next week though.
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    Shop New to me equipment coming.

    Been wanting a bigger and better cut off bandsaw for some time, and the last while I’ve been getting into bigger material, so decided it was time to upgrade from the little 4x6 import. So, weather pending, I’m headed about 1100 kms to Winnipeg area to pick up a Hyd-Mech S20 this coming...
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