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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. Johnwa

    You thought your gear was expensive.

    Calgary exempts M&E from tax so you’re safe John. https://www.calgary.ca/for-business/taxes/machinery-equipment.html#:~:text=Tax%20status%3A%20exempt,(MGA%20364%20(1.1)).
  2. Johnwa

    You thought your gear was expensive.

    I really don’t know. We were in the $100Ms.
  3. Johnwa

    You thought your gear was expensive.

    At the coal fired generator I worked at, machinery and equipment was included in the property taxed value. This is in Alberta.
  4. Johnwa

    New CNC Engraver Spindle

    WOW! You really fell down that rabbithole! If it’s any consolation it makes me feel better about my 3018. I swore I wasn’t going to upgrade it, but……
  5. Johnwa

    Tips/Techniques What is your favourite part of a project?

    Yay! My vote put us 20%ers in the lead! Things I would add to the poll. Tearing things apart for the scrap bin and wondering ”what can I use this for?” Looking through my scrap bin rather than going to buy stuff. what I dislike, finding something in the scrap bin after I went and bought...
  6. Johnwa

    Fusion 3D Trials & Tribulations

    I‘ve never used it very much but in Fusion you can reference your one dimension to another. You can then change the first dimension and the second one will be scaled accordingly. This could be used to adjust for shrinkage. There well may be an easier way. If you’re 3d printing the pattern...
  7. Johnwa

    Tips/Techniques Unique uses for ball bearings

    Coincidentally these showed up in the mail today.
  8. Johnwa

    Tips/Techniques Unique uses for ball bearings

  9. Johnwa

    Milling machine electrical question

    Applying DC to an AC motor can be used as a brake. 80v seems a bit high though.
  10. Johnwa

    Lathe Wiring

    Looking at the wiring diagram there is a reversing switch so there will be extra wires from the motor. Off the top of my head there should be 4 plus the ground.
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