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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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  1. francist

    Not Getting Alerts

    Sent
  2. francist

    Yipeee... Got my second Covid shot today......

    Huh, interesting. I don’t think we have any of those here in B.C, at least I haven’t seen any. Got my second Pfizer yesterday morning. -f
  3. francist

    Meat Tenderizing Hammer

    You’re a better man than I, Gunga Din. I serrated the bottom of a door stop once at about half the depth of yours and was more than glad when it was over. I really didn’t like the hammering as the tool hit all the ridges on the way across.
  4. francist

    Rust is the Enemy

    Yup, and the most damaging of all of those is…wait for it… humans.
  5. francist

    Rust is the Enemy

    Correct, although corrosion and or other material degradation can and does occur albeit slower, so the objective is always to slow the mechanisms down as much as possible. Most damaging though, as you surmise, is repeated fluctuation between the highs and lows. I’ll often tell a contractor it’s...
  6. francist

    Rust is the Enemy

    Indeed that is a good goal. To further split the hair, in the collections management world (caring for museum artifacts) the gold standard for maintaining a mixed collection is 50 percent RH plus or minus 2%, and 20 degrees C plus or minus 2 degrees. If you can manage to attain that over a full...
  7. francist

    Atlas 618 lathe projet

    Yeah, the paper slip is a good trick and works well. I don’t do it all the time but sure did at the beginning and it’s dead easy.
  8. francist

    Atlas 618 lathe projet

    I believe in some of the Atlas literature the recommendation was a graphite grease but those are not so easy to find these days. I did get some from the UK a while back and that’s what I use. However, there are many that will argue that grease is prone to swarf and chips getting stuck and thus...
  9. francist

    Rust is the Enemy

    Well, that's one way to find out although I was hoping for a non-destructive answer myself. Sorry you suffered some damage, hopefully nothing of tremendous value. Lesson learned all around. -frank
  10. francist

    Dang it’s hot.

    Yuck, that’s crazy! Just for kicks I took my IR heat gun outside this afternoon — the concrete steps leading up to my front porch were 146F !
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