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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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    Train horns

    My boss at work has a Peterbilt highway tractor with two train horns mounted under the cab and an air valve by the driver's seat. It came that way when he bought the truck and let's just say that we don't let that thing blast in the shop!
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    Sticky What Machines Do You have?

    That is a very cool collection, I popped over to your channel and subbed after snooping a bit! Will have to show my wife, she's very proud of HER 1970 Johnson 9.5!
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    Making a square peg fit a round hole

    The collet setup looks like it certainly works, and if you're inside a couple thou that should be effective for a lot of work. Nice job!
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    New kid in town - and it looks pretty good.

    I'm out in Spruce Grove, and have found a local fab shop, Stinger Welding and Fabrication, to be awesome as they are willing so sell shorter chunks from their stock. It's the go to shop for the heavy truck shop I work at, and unless it's something abnormal I always ask them first. Very cool to...
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    KC 1236ML Lathe Thoughts?

    Johnny, I've had my KC1236ML for about 5 years now. It's ok, I'm thankful to even just have a lathe, but it is certainly far from perfect. It has an odd set of speed selection spread, the cross slide isn't the most rigid for a machine of its swing, and they didn't even put a set screw on the...
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    New Lathe!

    Nice machine!
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    Hi From Winnipeg Area.. actually 30 mins East of there. RM of Ste Anne.

    Hey George! Glad you finally got connected here. I've learned a lot from listening in to what others have said here, and am very thankful to the originals who got this system going.
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    Precision Ground Stones

    It's a bit cheaper than $380, but Steve Lang (Shark River Machine on YouTube) sells his for $180 USD ($230 CDN). I got a set from him a while ago. Still not super cheap but it also helps a home cottage industry guy. I understand that it is still not a "Canadian" source but it is another option...
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    Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and yours.

    And a big Merry Christmas from our family to everyone as well!
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    Workshop air lines ?

    Right now I just have the air hose connected straight to the compressor outlet but would like to run a more permanent setup with a couple drops and manifolds at some point. Thing is that I work at a heavy truck shop and we have a number of shorter sections of Eaton SynFlex air brake line that...
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