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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. thriller007

    Need a Dro what one to get

    I was signed up for email notifications and they said shipment was on hold until I paid the duty and taxes. They sent me to their website to pay by credit card or PayPal. I thought that is was a possible scam so I looked the tracking number up on the DHL website and it was legit. Then today I...
  2. thriller007

    Need a Dro what one to get

    I was expecting to pay a bit. Just the BC taxes was $36 on $300.
  3. thriller007

    Need a Dro what one to get

    It says it is in BC now. I got a notification that I had to pay the taxes and duty online because of Covid and the delivery person could not collect it. That was an extra $50.69. It still says next Tuesday is the expected delivery date.
  4. thriller007

    Need a Dro what one to get

    Yes it is.
  5. thriller007

    Need a Dro what one to get

    Funny story is that I bought a set of parallels off of eBay.ca and then found the same set of parallels on Amazon for a little bit cheaper. I had already committed to the order from eBay so stayed with that. Ended up that the eBay seller just bought them off Amazon and had them drop shipped to...
  6. thriller007

    Need a Dro what one to get

    1st did not reg with DHL, 2nd just had shipping information received and 3rd was the same till it went into DHL possession.
  7. thriller007

    Need a Dro what one to get

    Well I had some progress on mine. It says DHL has received a package that matches the 3rd tracking number they sent me. It also says expected delivery of July 14.
  8. thriller007

    Speedy wrench for vice (repurposed parts)

    Sorry I just have a cheap princess auto hydraulic press that is a 12 ton so there was no gauge on it but I’ll tell you that it was pretty hard to push on the first one at least that one on the long handle version. On the middle socket I overshot the measurements a bit so it a little looser but...
  9. thriller007

    Speedy wrench for vice (repurposed parts)

    I don’t think my vice would’ve been able to push it in. I have a 12 ton hydraulic press that I used.
  10. thriller007

    What to do

    What size is your milling head Peter? And why is everybody’s machines so shiny?
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