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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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    Hello!

    Welcome, your videos are an easy to understand "go-to" for me.
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    Machinery's 20th

    It's a very high compliment . Sorta like "you lucky b******".
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    Car designs suck

    I was more understanding than your Dad. I gave each of the sons a 3/8" socket set and a Hayes manual for their car. Then told them go for it. I even as a teenager was more mechanically declined than my Dad. I have had a couple truly great cars, the second and third. A Simca '71 1204 (1100) and...
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    Machinery's 20th

    The older ones are more valuable to us with our simple manual machines. Mine is the 17th that I found at a thrift store. There are books written on how to access the wealth of knowledge.
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    Car designs suck

    Now isn't that very Canadian. We have looked at the problem from all sides and without preconceived ideology getting in the way, just looked at the practical aspects of the problem.
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    Car designs suck

    The days of fine logging roads going all over the place are over. Once the timber is out, the roads are not needed. The province then calls for deactivation , sometimes so effective even a tank wouldn't get through. Here n BC it was on those logging roads where the 4x4s shone.
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    Car designs suck

    At work, which was about eleven years ago, were discussing the state of SUVs at lunch, we agreed the only true one left, was the 4 door Jeep Wrangler. I have helped replace flat factory tires on a Suzuki and a Nissan. My brothers Porsche SUV had a flat the first time he drove it on gravel...
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    Car designs suck

    SUVs that can't be driven on gravel logging roads. That's all of them. Twigs will put a holes in those tires. SUV means sport utility vehicle,. That was what the original Jeep Wagoneer was called.
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    Really ?

    The story of two pigs, one a '74 Dodge W200 Power wagon and the other an '08 Ram 3500. Both 4x4 . One a 360, the other a 6.7 litre Cummins. Both manuals, a NP-435 and a DB G-56 .Both 4,500# payloads. The Ram gets 12.5 litres per hundred in town ! the Dodge got 14.7 mpg on the highway. Both pigs...
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    Car designs suck

    I'm 76 and I have seen a dramatic climate change in my lifetime. I grew up and still live in the Lower Mainland of BC, the suburbs of Vancouver. It's in the temperate marine climate zone. Marine means the ocean controls it. It goes from northern California to the Alaska pan handle. What really...
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