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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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    HO HO HO

    Merry Christmas to all and I wish you fine resolution (and precision) for the new year. Santa found us! Goodies for the parents and the four legged child. Traditional fish cakes for breakfast and not so traditional supper thawing. What could be better! :) D :cool:
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    H-M site down ?

    Another way to look at it is that TDRO is a niche with relatively little traffic and having it all in one place makes sense. It makes any discussion easier for Yuriy and posters to follow and respond. Put differently, if you want to specifically discuss TDRO with Yuriy and with other users...
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    DavidR8's shop shenanigans

    Lol, did I leave that part out?! D :cool:
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    DavidR8's shop shenanigans

    Oh, man! But I had to do the whole way backward in a blizzard! ;) Actually I had to draft tractor trailers and big SUVs to get the rig over 100 kph! (Her Integra complete with MIL in the back seat). Two walls, that’s a serious bookcase. D :cool:
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    DavidR8's shop shenanigans

    Could be worse. When we bought our bookcases we drove 1000 km to Montreal in the winter for them. Well, to visit family too but still 1000 km with a trailer. Rest of the story. The first IKEA in North America was here, they closed it after 12 years saying the market here wasn’t right for...
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    DavidR8's shop shenanigans

    I didn’t want to be the smart *** around here but since I see that I may have company…..doesn’t your wife have an IKEA catalog? ;) :p Ok, now that I have that out of my system, they actually have a nice set with glass doors that both my S.O. and I have in our offices. It’s their “Billy”...
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    Is this paper there to do what I think it is?

    Swarf protection, I use a boxboard shield for the same thing. D :cool:
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    Plasma cutter for under $300!!

    I don’t have experience with plasma but I would expect that there would be a recommendation of what shade value would be used with it just as it is for different types/materials of arc welding or brazing. Maybe the manual will have suggestions? D :cool:
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    eDrawings

    It’s built into Solidworks if that’s your flavor. I don’t know about other systems but when I was working with PRO/E CREO you could export the model as a 3D .pdf Maybe that’s an option too. I don’t recall the work flow but it’s probably a “save as” option. D :cool:
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    Modified steady rest - lumby BC

    Yeah, ouch! I just poked the CP bear and it spit out just under $50 for parcel post (when the strike is over) so I guess the FedEx ground is about what one could expect from them. The CP way does include tracking so it’s reassuring to know they’ll know where it is if it does get delayed, lol...
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