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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. terry_g

    Mystery Mill

    The engine was a J13 built in 1967
  2. terry_g

    Mystery Mill

    Years ago I rebuilt a Nissan J13 engine, It was made in Japan and all the threaded fasteners were SAE inch sizes.
  3. terry_g

    World's Largest Tree Crusher

    A Letourneau mechanic told me that the bolts Letourneau uses in their machinery have a double helix thread and are very expensive. He also told me that the switches that control the 600 volts to the drive motors were $8000 each and there were several of them. That was over 20 years ago.
  4. terry_g

    World's Largest Tree Crusher

    Fixed! I tried linking the pictures but they did not show up for some reason.
  5. terry_g

    World's Largest Tree Crusher

    I made the eight plus hour drive to Mackenzie B.C. last Sunday. I saw this on the way to our hotel. I stopped and got some pictures of it. It had two V12 Cummins engines for power. They were probably VT1710's 600 HP plus each. Its a big machine the rollers are 30 feet wide and 8 feet tall.
  6. terry_g

    Pine Sol for carb cleaning?

    Pinesol works better when its warm but not too hot. A cheap Walmart rice cooker on warm mode works well.
  7. terry_g

    I don't like Mondays, but I really really hate post long weekend Tuesdays.

    TW Distribution
  8. terry_g

    I don't like Mondays, but I really really hate post long weekend Tuesdays.

    The U bolts we ordered for a job in the shop showed up Monday morning. Because there is a large variety of different lengths widths and shapes the warehouse stocks the straight rods and bends them to what the customer ordered. I guess the person picking the parts did not know this and sent us...
  9. terry_g

    What material should Camlock cams and stop bolts be made from?

    Is there a chance they were turned the wrong way when the chuck was installed? They will tighten and hold if turned the wrong way.
  10. terry_g

    Tool Soldering iron recommendation

    I still use both the soldering irons I bought at Radio Shack in the 1980s
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