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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. J

    Tips/Techniques New VFD questions

    I've heard that rule of thumb for VFD thing before. I think it's more for pumps or equipment running peak amps continuously vs what us hobbyist are gonna use it for. My 7.5 HP lathe turning at lowest rpm (12.5) which should put most load on VFD if I remember correctly when I had amp meter on it...
  2. J

    Tips/Techniques New VFD questions

    I have powered my equipment with solid wire cause I happen to have more of it laying around then stranded works fine for runing power from VFD to motor. 16/4 cabtire is rated to 13 amps so it works great too and easier to work with. I would run solid wire from panel to a plug then run stranded...
  3. J

    Tips/Techniques New VFD questions

    For a 2 HP 3phase motor 220v I think they draw 7 amps max so coming out of the VFD with 14/3 is more then adequate, as for input 14/2 should be fine aswell for 2 HP as single phase 220v draws max 13 amps but doesn't hurt to use 12/2 and if you use stranded wires I would recommend crimping a pin...
  4. J

    What kind of endmill is this?

    Haha ye that's good way to get em I meant how do you find using them. I barely passed English class and it's my only language
  5. J

    What kind of endmill is this?

    The definately look cool lol how do you find them?
  6. J

    What kind of endmill is this?

    Interesting I imagine they sharpen it on a CNC tool grinder of sorts. Don't imagine it would not give big advantage for manual machining more for the CNC machining world.
  7. J

    What kind of endmill is this?

    Spotted this interesting designed endmill. Doesn't look friendly to sharpen and curious if there is a reason it's designed this way.
  8. J

    Merry Christmas!

    Merry Christmas, and onto another year of making turning metal into chips and scrap into parts or parts into scrap :)
  9. J

    King 12 x 36 question

    Seen few YouTubers use these for machines they want to move around
  10. J

    DIY cermented carbide tools

    Figured I could make a post how I make some of my tooling for the lathe. maybe is it could be of use those who want more shapeable tooling that is bit harder then hss or make some one off tooling for a task. You can use scrap carbide or pre made braze on inserts the process is basically the...
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