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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. Bofobo

    Little machine shop quality?

    I’ve bought several things from them, the paper drawing had layout numbers that were wrong for my mini mill long travel upgrade, also half of several parts missing critical machining operations in that kit (I bought a “ready to install kit”) had to Finish machining half the stuff myself, with 0...
  2. Bofobo

    King 10"x 22" Modern 11"x 26" or BB 10"x 22" or 7" x 12" and mod it?

    I tried this, my mini mill has now $750 extra base parts to make it physically better (long travel kit, belt upgrade, treadmill motor and fabrication to make this all work), plus DRO making it around $3000 for that one machine, I’ll never see that back, so I’m suggesting go just beyond Bench...
  3. Bofobo

    Bead Roller Stand

    Well I know whom I may have to ask for a hand in this project
  4. Bofobo

    My first stem engine build

    You understood my question perfectly, unfortunately No I cannot explain it, I did the “cheat way” myself and was hopeful Brian May have been able to break down the math if he had successfully figured it out
  5. Bofobo

    My first stem engine build

    Very nice! Did you do the work around for the port holes or the maths way?
  6. Bofobo

    The Move is on - Stairs and 3 tons

    Looks just like My basement ceiling.... at least my lathe move is straight up the hole and out the door (kinda) .... my guess is that lathe went in vertical, like moving 3seat a couch around a small corner
  7. Bofobo

    y.a. first 7x lathe Q

    Small machines are as mentioned a kit lathe, needs love, lots of write ups on this forum, I’ve owned one and may get another.
  8. Bofobo

    1925 McDougall Lathe refurbish

    Oh jely Doughnut!! Monster maxhine
  9. Bofobo

    Reverse engineer this

    Machined lots of rubber seals and plugs for remoulding, made a few changes to rubber bits as well, sharp hss is fine but speeds are higher and yes very important to clean your lathe area and chip tray prior as rubber streamers is what I recall of that operation for “swarf”.
  10. Bofobo

    Hello from NW Calgary

    Further greetings from the Nw! Let’s see that mcdougal
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