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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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    How to hold this part...

    At the risk of wandering off into the weeds, the imperial system does have some important advantages The metric system was developed with a great emphasis on uniformity - everything is some kind of power of 10. Within a certain unit (meter, gram, etc.) there is an absolutely fixed scale, and...
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    Broken Spring

    Possibly you could heat and bend a couple of the still connected coils. It seems almost impossible to repair the point at which it broke
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    DIY Mill

    You're just setting me up for the next time I say something stupid ;) But I think the most important point here is that when building a mill, you need to think about an envelope of performance. Even on a production machine that is repetitively doing only one job, there is a level of...
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    DIY Mill

    There are a couple of other points worth mentioning. To be a vibration, there must be some sort of repeating pattern ;) For a lathe or a mill, the tool is constantly 'ripping' parts of the stock, and each time a chunk is ripped off, the load pattern changes. That sudden change generates an...
  5. M

    Timer

    Maybe a leak rope to trigger a relay? Or maybe just a slower vacuum that can be on longer and work better with a cheap timer
  6. M

    Timer

    would a pan with a float valve work for your situation?
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    Electric heater question

    Corporations exist to make money, so it is hard to call anything that they do greed per se. There are different strategies for how to price products, but generally they are all based on getting the most possible money from the consumer. Anything else would not be acting in the interests of the...
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    Electric heater question

    It is important to remember that insurance adjusters are paid more if they manage to reduce or repudiate your claim. They make bonuses based on how much money they disallow.
  9. M

    Let's undertake yet another project - Jackson No. 2 Vertical Milling Machine

    great! yet another perspective that I (we, I'm being selfish) can learn from
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    Electric heater question

    Of course everyone should make decisions about their personal circumstances in a way that makes sense to themselves - and not rely on internet chat advise as if it was and eleventh commandment But what I am trying to say is that in the realm of insurance, there is the common carrier precept...
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