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  • Several Regions have held meetups already, but others are being planned or are evaluating the interest. The Calgary Area Meetup is set for Saturday July 12th at 10am. The signup thread is 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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    Box and Pan Work

    Nice boxes! I miss having access to sheet metal machinery, we had shears, brakes, nibblers, spot welder, etc. at the school where I taught. Was very handy having access to that sort of stuff.
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    Bending a wrench

    I usually get mine from garage sales, pawn shops, places like that. Made a few specially bent wrenches over the years, especially 15mm box ends bent 90 degrees for 5.9/6.7 Cummins turbo nuts, and 90 degree 9/16" box ends for Dodge transfer case nuts. Only issue I had was that they evaporated...
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    Bending a wrench

    I've got a number of "special" wrenches . . . Cut, bent, welded, etc from years of being a mechanic. Never tested strength against a new one though. Got a bin of "sacrificial wrenches and sockets" in the bottom drawer of the tool box just for that purpose.
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    Just1-Sask-Guy Looking for a Half Decent Mill

    Hey man! Still watching here in Edmonchuk for something reasonable for you too. If something right pops up we'll figure something out to get it your way. Glad you made it on here!
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    Copying lathe parts for my new friend in Alabama

    Well, the new parts are well-made, you have spares now - or eBay them and make up some of your costs, lol?
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    info on a King PDM-30 drill mill

    Bummer, I was kind of hoping you would get it. The RF-30 clones are quite handy machines once you get to know their quirks, and there are usually ways to work around the quirks. Probably would have still kept mine if I had room at the time.
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    Copying lathe parts for my new friend in Alabama

    Those are awesome, and very cool you could do fitup checks on your machine to verify before shipping. Cool of you to help the fellow out, I agree it's a shame to tear apart and part out or scrap something that could be fixed and put back into service.
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    KC1236 thoughts

    Hi Proxule, I have owned a KC1236 for a few years now. It does not have a spindle brake like it sounds on the PM machine. As for the cross slide and compound, they are not scraped but machined. And yes, it will cut pretty much any sane inch-based thread pitch with gear changes only required...
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    Hello! Utilathe 16x54" new to the shop.

    Nice machine!
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    Yesterdays Project A Fuel Pump

    Good idea for repurposing that pump. At the truck shop I was at we had a Ford 6 liter fuel pump that we used for the same purpose but it had its quirks. Hopefully you have one of those special quick connects to attach right to the filter housing on a number of truck engines. The worst I've ever...
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