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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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    New to me Ammco 7" Metal shaper

    Dear Diary, JACKPOT! Giggety giggety! :p Sure not an early 6 inch machine, AND it has a vise! Any other good junk with it?
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    Welding rod oven

    I figure you are wasting time and effort on sticking rods in the oven for any length of time before use. Logic is this. 300 Degrees, is not going to be hot enough to drive off bound moisture, provided that you actually need the Low Hydrogen characteristic, which should see the rods go straight...
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    Found Logan lathe

    Yeah, Logan is still in business, and still in the Logan Family. Scott Logan was fairly active online when I first hit the interwebs a few (dozens) year ago, ran across his posts on the rec.crafts.metalworking newsgroup, as well as on the practicalmachinist site. Dunno if he is still as active...
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    New to me Ammco 7" Metal shaper

    Amen! Get it sitting in your shop, and take a couple "New Toy" bragging pictures and post them! Take a good look at the main gear's teeth. The main gear on these is phenolic, and the teeth are helical, so they present additional stresses on the amateur to reproduce. 'IF' the gear is damaged, it...
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    HERO TIME - My Dream Lathe has Landed!

    Don't take it personal @Susquatch , It's been a long term dislike, mostly centered upon some very expensive Model Engineering magazines, that seemed to revel in wasting my money, printing long winded articles about such things as Treacle Mines, etc. A REAL disappointment, when you are spending...
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    Cast Bronze Plaques

    You REALLY need to hook up with someone with a CNC Router then. MDF, or HDF board is pretty cheap material. Computer graphic design is pretty easy work, from my experience, so you have all sort of options relating from everything between really basic text only, to some VERY nice pictures...
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    Tool Good Quality Files and where to purchase them?

    "Bastard" is just an indicator that the file's cut is between a Coarse and a Medium cut, rather than a specific number of teeth per inch. File size matters too, as a Bastard cut on a 6" file is going to be much finer than the Bastard cut on a 12" or 14" file. To my knowledge, there is not an...
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    HERO TIME - My Dream Lathe has Landed!

    Y'know... I'm a little disappointed in the 1 April stupidity. I'd really rather not have to endure the stuff. Just sayin'. And in character, if Susq had the power feed (electrical) to power up a lathe that size, he'd have had better than that one, YEARS ago! Most of those size machines...
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    Tool Good Quality Files and where to purchase them?

    Double cut files tend to cut a little freer, but do not leave as smooth a finish. I would say, a Double Cut to move material, while you want a single cut for a finer finished result. The chips off a double cut tend to be smaller and fall clear of the teeth a bit easier. If your file gets pinned...
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    Tool Good Quality Files and where to purchase them?

    If the user has the skills, and works with care, one can quite easily file to thousandths accuracy. Draw filing is as accurate as the user is... It applies directly, as a means of deburring parts too! A gentle pass with a single cut file will knock the sharp edges off, in a very controllable...
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