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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. Susquatch

    Tips/Techniques LFA Keyless Chuck - Jammed

    Since it is locked up in the open position, you know it most likely didn't lock up from abuse. It's prolly just hardened grease or oil varnish. Not knowing any more about it than you do, if it were mine, I'd soak it in varsol for a few days, blow all that crap out, soak it again, then I'd make...
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    Tips/Techniques Painter's Tape - the Swiss Army knife of tape

    I use it with my skill saw and table saw to keep the edges clean - no splinters. Great with epoxy - especially epoxy bedding on a stock. Combine it with modelling clay so stuff comes apart the way you want. My goto labeller till I got the P-Touch. Still using tape - old habits are hard to break.
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    Rain in Edmonton

    It's the same way here. It's caused by Lake Erie and the Glacial Moraine along its north shore. I often get an inch of rain at my barn and be bone dry at the house. Over the course of a year, we get about 3 times as much rain on the back of my farm as we do on the front. It's downright wierd to...
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    Workplace Safety at work and in the home shop

    I think my dad's version of that was slightly better. When you die, you don't know you are dead, it's just hard on everyone else around you. It's the same when you are stupid.
  5. Susquatch

    Rain in Edmonton

    Radar shows Edmonton getting hammered today! Storm is just hanging there and dumping it's guts out! Nothing up north, but hope that helps control the fires around Edmonton a bit.
  6. Susquatch

    Really ?

    LOL! That's not me that's for sure! I want to arrive with pride, poise, wisdom, and the happiness of a full rewarding life full of choices dominated by common sense and logic. I'm trying my best and I've done pretty well. Only about 16 years left to go. If I do live beyond 95, I will probably...
  7. Susquatch

    IT IS SOLD. Grizzly G1006 mill drill $1900

    Burlington Ontario
  8. Susquatch

    Really ?

    I guess the thing that bothers me the most is not the things we do to avoid real risk. It's the things we do to avoid perceived risks that are not real. In effect, we are afraid of our shadows. Man has evolved in a way that favored fear. Fear is an evolutionary force. The best example I can...
  9. Susquatch

    Really ?

    I don't agree. I do agree that there are many exceptions where individuals like arborists are very good at assessing risk for a particular situation or activity. But there are thousands of risks we all take each and every day that we do not understand and do not do a good job of assessing. In...
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    Really ?

    There are several differences between racing harnesses and vehicle seat belts. The most obvious is that race cars do not have the luxury of the testing and analysis done on a mass production vehicle. They are usually purpose built but not tested for crash performance. As a result, the harness is...
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