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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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    Machinery's 20th

    I've got a vague itchy memory that 22 TPI was used on older, Pre-Unified (late 1960's-ish) Brit Motorcycles. Memories from working after hours, at a Brit bike shop just off the Base I was posted to at the time, where bulk lots of hardware that had been sent out for CAD Plating, needed to be...
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    Need some Lathe Work

    Yep. Drawings. Concentricity required with the OD? And tolerances required. Not clear if the 2 1/2" is the depth of the bored section (bearing mount, say) or the entire length of the tube. Even a most basic sketch, and highlights of the areas that can be done to a looser tolerance, if any...
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    DavidR8's shop shenanigans

    I met a little old lady in the Comox Valley, some many years ago. She was shoveling horse poo in to the trunk of her car, there at the boarding stable. When I asked her how big her garden was and she told me,it was half an acre, I asked "Don't you have a problems with the deer?" She said, "Not...
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    Machinery's 20th

    In truth, I would posit, that the publishers thought that buying audience, only "barely" spoke English as they knew it. Being mostly Colonials or Rebels.... There were dozens or more different publishers pounding out books on different subjects at the time. Many crossed over from one area of...
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    Off topic posts

    Meh. Any of y'all used to listen to the CBC on Saturday mornings (late '80's-early '90's) to stay caught up on the political world. Over the course of the morning, you could count on someone out of maybe four different outfits, absolutely LAMBASTING any politician that said something outrageous...
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    Wild Honey Bee Swarm

    Groan! LOL!
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    CA-ON Small Fasteners

    You need to learn how to cheat! LOL! Drill deep, if you can, barring that, make the end that is NOT buried down the hole, the pretty end and trim the ugly end as required. Thread the holes, make a calibrated collet style wrench that has a stop that sets the lengths, or simply adjust up and down...
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    CA-ON Small Fasteners

    This diagram draws my attention to one detail that can really make a scale project shine, which is that in full size practice when most of the engines being modeled, were just normal working tools, the ends of studs were rounded over and reasonably finely finished, presumably to reduce the...
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    CA-ON Small Fasteners

    Those are pretty nice! One of the best iterations of a purpose built tool for confined spaces that I have seen in person, was a nut holder/starter wrench that a fellow at the Estevan Model Engineering Expo had made to deal with just this problem. You know how you would, on a full size machine...
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    Machinery's 20th

    I kinda doubt it crossed very many people's minds at the time. Machinery was a specialized, but fairly widely distributed source of information, news of what developments were taking place, in industry, changes in machines and tooling that were rampant in that era, etc. Pretty well known. A...
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