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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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    Canox C250E AC-DC Welder

    If you can read the serial number, hop over to Miller's website and run it through their search engine in their Manuals and downloads section. Usually only the operators manual, but sometimes that include wiring diagrams and parts lists as well. Worth a look, IMO. I picked up a Acklands...
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    Tips/Techniques Making the Square Drive hole in a custom socket.

    Had a fella that was supposedly working for me, who was grossly way more experienced a welder than I, and he filled me in on a couple details. The main one, was, "The job isn't finished until it has a coat of Black Tremclad on it!", followed rapidly, by "You can hide a lot of sins under a coat...
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    Does Anyone Still Make The Real Swiss or German Multifix Tool Post? (not an offshore clone)

    My (not actual dislike, rather, preference) is to have a tool post that I do not need a wire EDM machine to make my own tool holders. Would I like to have a genuine Multi-Fix, hells yes, do I want to pay the price of admission....? Not so much...
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    Does Anyone Still Make The Real Swiss or German Multifix Tool Post? (not an offshore clone)

    Or maybe not. One of the well respected members on Popular Machinist Forum, bought and tried the Chinese clone, and tested it for repeatability, etc., and came away with the general attitude that one got more than one paid for, compared to price-to-value. Personally, I like the Tripan system...
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    New to me Ammco 7" Metal shaper

    Thread rift in action! LOL! Post us some pics when you drag yer new toy home, eh? Lots of guys over the years have said that you can make anything on a shaper except a living, but I have been in a shop in Edmonton that was ABSOLUTELY pristine and clean, about a dozen CNC machines running in a...
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    Power hacksaw

    Nice! If you need some honest to god silver solder to patch anything up, talk to me, I can fix ya up! I have a tube of (IIRC) 60% silver content, flux coated rods, that my neighbor in Cold Lake could not sell at a Garage Sale, for $5. He gave it to me after the sale... :) Set up a shut off...
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    New to me Ammco 7" Metal shaper

    'IF' you are interested, it provides a somewhat biased view, into a period in history where things were very different than they are today, yet some things were SO similar. Like, Romeo and Juliet, who were like, fourteen years old, and suffering all the teen angst that teens have always...
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    New to me Ammco 7" Metal shaper

    Nah. You bought the tool, they bought the accessories! If the shaper comes with the vise, you are ahead of the game! Make best use of the tool, and seek the accessories as you need them! Seriously, I have way too many accessories, that I thought I needed, but have never used! Sacrilege as that...
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    New to me Ammco 7" Metal shaper

    Referring to the pictures in the link above, one idea that comes to mind, is to mount a worm gear to the indexing head, and bang together a suitable mounting for the worm, that slides into the tee slot behind the head, essentially making a two piece version of the South Bend centers head that is...
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    New to me Ammco 7" Metal shaper

    You don't need photos... LOL! Download and look at the pictures of the accessories, in the better of the two files that were posted here earlier. What is not shown in the catalog, is tha tthere is a bolt/stud coming out the bottom, by which they are mounted to the table. But... photos in this...
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