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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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    First crash

    Picture a framing square. Long end of said square is in the tool post/aka:the actual blade of the parting tool.. Short end points down at the deck of yer cross slide, but gets cut off where it meets. What you are going to make, is the short end. Vertical from under the parting tool, down to...
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    First crash

    Parting is almost worse than thread cutting for getting people's faces in knots. The solution, really, is to practice until it becomes just another habit. If using inverted tools, you run those upside down, on the back side of the work, often on a second tool post. Handy when you need to make a...
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    Anyone using ChatGTP?

    Oh Mothers of Gods! How come in my imagination, I see the mother of all life-sucking, Soul-draining offspring of the voice-mail hell 'AI" "Assistants, that so many of the large companies have before you can actually talk to a live human? I spent enough of my life correcting Aircraft...
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    Found this little gem - Schuchardt & Schuette Gear Hobbing Machine

    Read much about the process, mostly related to a couple hobby tabletop sized hobbing machines that were published in Model Engineer over the last century or so of their output. Lots of fractional maths involved, most that I was not so very interested in, that I actually followed through the...
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    Spitfire needs work

    Yeah, have read several reports over the years of guys spending large fortunes, and LOTS of time, seeking out war years and post war years training crash sites, to recover that plate. Almost exactly like firearms, the bit with the actual serial number on it "IS" under the Law, the actual thing...
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    Found this little gem - Schuchardt & Schuette Gear Hobbing Machine

    Cool catch! cheap, I hope! What did you get for gears with it? Those will really define what you can produce, if even enough to start making your own gear sets for cutting other gears. Have seen, in more recent times, guys 3D printing gears to use to cut metal ones, with some success, so that...
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    Machinery's 20th

    The mere fact that it is included in the choices for thread pitch on both Lathe gearboxes, AND thread pitch Gages, pretty much states that it was a Standard SOMEWHERE. Have yet to find a thread Gage that goes up through ALL the numbers, just in case... That said, I HAVE seen a blueprint for a...
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    Spitfire needs work

    One of the guys in our RC Airplane club in the Comox Valley, owned a Grob 'glass slipper' style glider. Early 1980's. That rig was hitting over $300k then... My new built house, and the five acres it was on, was less than half that, at the time! But, if it ain't taking food outta anyone's...
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    Auction advice.

    I'm pretty sure it was less than ten years ago that hey went to the "Auction" format, vs. "Sealed Bids". Probably half my shop was bought that way. Eg:, I bought an Acklands labeled (painted orange instead of blue) Miller 225D Bobcat Diesel welder, complete with cables, a Tig box, regs, and a...
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    Spitfire needs work

    I can sorta understand, given the costs twenty years ago, that were making my private pilot friends whinge and wince. A fella that can afford to play in that rarefied air, may well think that the premiums will amount to worse than the damage. The 'homebuilt' that was being put together while I...
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