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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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    Whisk(e)y, wine and cheese!

    Great , even good beer is more difficult to brew than wine. It takes skilled brewmaster. I worked for a contractor installing a new mixer in Molson's brewery on Burrard street in downtown Vancouver. When I got the dispatch, I thought, oh good, beer with lunch. Well they stopped that a few...
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    Whisk(e)y, wine and cheese!

    Beer tastes are individual. Sometimes there is no accounting for taste. I'm fond of a fine local pilsner, but I can't afford the craft beer, so I make do with a merely good beer.
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    History (ww2)

    With good reason. The Germans at first thought they would push the allies into the sea, after they realized they wouldn't be able to, they acted a little more civilized.
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    History (ww2)

    Here is a story from the start of the Battle of Normandy, D-Day. The Canadians were the only ones who achieved their first day objectives. My uncle who came a shore on the first day was told to follow that that tank during that night. When sun up came he said they looked around where they...
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    History (ww2)

    My Dad joined up in'39 . His stories were mostly the funny ones. My uncle was in the first wave. Both Dad and my uncle had stories that matched up to events that were written about.
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    Hitch extension

    Older small RV fridges were 3 way, propane, 12 volt, and 110 volt. The larger current RV fridges use heat instead of compressing . The 110 volt option is just a heater. You'll find compressors on the the cooler/freezers . Before electrification, they use to run fridges on kerosene . I had an...
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    Hitch extension

    RVers know this but for others. The front jack is important on a travel trailer, it is used for leveling length wise. A RV needs to be level, not for filling your whisky glass to the brim like the Finnlanders and Japanese do, rather for the RV fridge. The fridges are absorption type , not the...
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    Hitch extension

    The brutal truth is that vehicles have inadequate rear suspensions. Because the suspension can't handle lateral weight transfer, you tow vehicles ends up pointing in the wrong direction. Rather unnerving . I even had that issue with my 1ton LWB p/u . Historicallarms describes well the results.
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    Machinery's 20th

    I first looked it up to be sure, my memory isn't what it once was, then I checked with a thread guage. It is 22tpi.
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    Jacobs Super Chuck or clone?

    I have a couple of Glacern brand chucks, Chinese/American made. On Practical Machinist, this topic came up. One poster relayed their shop's experience with Rohm chucks . They were very pleased.
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