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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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    7" AMMCO Shaper in NB

    Found this little guy and thought I would pass it on. Seems like a nice little shaper with original vise, but its on the wrong side of the country! Might be close enough for a few on here. AMMCO Shaper
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    Vickers Vedette flying boat

    Very neat, next time I am near the Museum I will have to stop in to look at it with the kids. There is also a old blue Bombadier in that museum that my dad had the pleasure of driving for work before it was put in the museum. He always wondered what happened to it, then about 18 years ago we...
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    Carbide Insert Facing End Mills - Which one to get ????

    What RPM are you running it at David_R8? My 2.5" face mill likes to run at 2,000-2,500RPM on my Knee mill and will give a beautiful finish like glass. Mind you its a Korloy with Kenametal inserts in it.
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    Rotary broach

    Thank you all! Looks like I got another project to do..
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    Rotary broach

    Has anyone here managed to make a rotary broach for the tail stock of a lathe? I want to be able to broach 1/4" hexes and looked at the commercial rotary broaches and almost fainted at the price. They don't seem too difficult to make, and you can purchase the bits separate for them. So I thought...
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    Tons of Drills, Reamers, Taps, and Machine Tools

    I was interested in: 3/4 NF 16, bottom, Butterfield, qty 1, $16 ea 1-7/16 x 6-1/2 taper shank drill, MT4, (qty 3) $40 ea I live in South East Saskatchewan
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    Atlas 7B shaper

    The Atlas 7B is a 7" shaper, and that seems like a very reasonable price for it seeings as it comes with a factory stand.
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    How its made! Colchester Lathe

    I found this neat video on the manufacturing of Colchester lathes on youtube and thought some of you might enjoy it. Its a older video, but pretty informative!
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    Tons of Drills, Reamers, Taps, and Machine Tools

    I know this is a real old post, but is there any of this available still? Thanks
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    Garage furnace

    I think I have your furnace's twin in my shop. They look identical, I got mine from the States at Menards. I can't remember what the brand name is. If your interested I can look for it, if it helps!
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