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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. Stellrammer

    Metal working - dry / lubricants / coatings / cooling mist

    I can’t stand much in the way of air contaminants, while I like Acculube I can’t bear the vapors it gives off , chokes me up. I can’t smoke anything and things with toluene and such like as in Slip-ease graphite paint can make me sit down, lots of breathing protection for me, I’m a snowflake.
  2. Stellrammer

    Metal working - dry / lubricants / coatings / cooling mist

    Automotive oil and cutting oils are engineered for different purposes. Cutting oils have a different stable viscosity and have additives like sulphur,chlorine and or long chain fatty acids. Automotive oils are designed to keep metal parts from abrasion, their composition is not enhanced to...
  3. Stellrammer

    aborted grocery shopping rant...

    I really want to try roasted swan, but don’t want to spend the rest of my life in jail.
  4. Stellrammer

    aborted grocery shopping rant...

    Yup, our local Italian bakery went the same way, a small open warehouse jammed with fresh breads, cheese, cured meats. Rocking all the time, elbow to elbow Friday through Sunday, small pizza or lasagna for $1, latte for 1.50. Pops passed away and kids mortgaged out and rented 2 huge spaces and...
  5. Stellrammer

    Another New GTA Member

    Personally, I’m no longer wired for 2 20s anymore, just 1 40.
  6. Stellrammer

    Never Have I Ever

    I’m stuck with my Harrison, threaded Chuck, no lock and no reverse either. I miss having a Voest Lathe and a Snap-Tap, thread, reverse forward set dial, repeat, right to a shoulder, at high speed.
  7. Stellrammer

    aborted grocery shopping rant...

    I miss grocery shopping, especially when I was on the road. I shopped every day and picked up whatever was on sale or inspiring. There was a great Italian butcher shop near 400 and Finch off Signet. It was a huge open warehouse full of meats, produce all in open coolers and bins, and cheap...
  8. Stellrammer

    Tips/Techniques Looking for an inside (interior, backside?) deburring tool.

    I think Noga still does a version of the Cogsdill flip cut
  9. Stellrammer

    Tool Tooling up a milling machine

    Real world is different from the parameters used in the lab when testing the holders. That reason is why I say hundreds rather than the thousands as Haimer can claim in their testing. If you are not getting hundreds there are some fundamental issues. What type of heat system are you using, is it...
  10. Stellrammer

    Tool Tooling up a milling machine

    It was nearly new, just the wrong endmill doing an inappropriate roughing pass in difficult material, prehardened P20 , tenuous at best, put it in hydraulic Chuck and carried on, inappropriately but successfully. Hundreds of times if using the proper induction machine correctly. Once if you...
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