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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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    CA-ON Small Fasteners

    Do some looking at Lathe Box Tools, online. Essentially it is a turning tool with a built in steady rest, to allow you to do the take-down to threading diameter in a single pass, same as happens on a capstan production lathe (where a Box Tool is certainly more common). Then, if yer really...
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    CA-ON Small Fasteners

    A source I have used in the past for rivets, screws, and assorted Hardware, is Aircraft Spruce and Specialty. Largely caters to Homebuilt Aircraft makers, Certified Aircraft maintenance and repair parts, and the like, some of which can run to the VERY eye-watering range, but I have told folks in...
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    Machinery's 20th

    "Machinery" was the name of a print magazine, that catered to Machine and Metalworking related shops. They saw a use for gathering together a lot of varied, and sometimes hard to find Data sets, as a valuable resource for Machinists as well as other trades. Thus it became "Machinery's" (it...
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    Wild Honey Bee Swarm

    It doesn't hurt, to mix as much sugar as you can dissolve in water, and fill a spray bottle with that. Go hose down the swarm cluster, and they 'might' not bugger off elsewhere. Their first instinct, leaving the hive, is to absolutely load up on honey, Makes the feel fed and dumb. Keeping them...
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    Wild Honey Bee Swarm

    On the 'gone fully Abo!' side of things, all you need is a hollow space for the bees to move in. Search "Skep". Not entirely legal, as they cannot be readily inspected Ideally, hit up a local beekeeper, for some hardware. At the very least, you need two boxes of frames, or foundation, a Bottom...
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    Don't Use FedEx for Any International Shipments

    Had issues in the past with both FedEx and UPS charging stupid fees. Got told by one vendor that BOTH had been touting the same line, that Canadians were simply trying to pay duties and taxes. Told every one that said that, that I was fully expecting the duties and taxes, just was not willing...
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    New to me Ammco 7" Metal shaper

    Nothing quite like a little accidental experimentation, to open your eyes to what is actually possible, eh? There are a couple videos out there of big shapers dropping coiled up, red hot chips, into a box placed on the shop floor to catch them. The chips look like Valve Springs.... As...
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    Pantograph for Sale

    The GHA machines were either Licensed or plain old Bootleg copies, of Deckel stuff. Strongly suspect, that licensing was in play! I have a GHA Panto, and am a little dissapointed, that the Deckel spindle does not 'quite' fit in the work head!
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    New to me Ammco 7" Metal shaper

    Yeah, sometimes it does that. It's pretty much a relic from that the shaper you are using, is a pretty light weight piece of gear, and does require that you allow for both the various bits of tolerance that add up, as well as that you accept the flexibility of a lightweight machine tool. Plan...
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    New to me Ammco 7" Metal shaper

    Yes sir, it is. I have used my shaper to make a couple useful parts, but I will often set a block in the vise, and just face off the surface, to sit and watch it run... Very soothing! LOL!
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