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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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    who does this...

    That is sad, you have to wonder what the person's thought process was.
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    Tool Starrett 10th Indicator

    I can't seem to find the fellows business card. I will stop by today or tomorrow at his address and get his contact information and post it.
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    Tool Starrett 10th Indicator

    I know of a couple of businesses in the Edmonton area that do this sort of work. Where are you located?
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    Ditron DRO Failed with Excellent Customer Service Followup

    On Wednesday morning last week I turned on my Ditron four axis DRO and a high pitched squeal came out of it, then nothing. I had purchase the unit at the end of October last year off of Amazon so I was not sure if it would be covered by warranty. I emailed Kate @ Ditron describing the problem...
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    Shop Things to have in your dream shop!

    Good point, didn't think about it from that angle, I don't have a monitoring service. I use the internet for our security system. We live in a rural area and it is wireless, not 100% reliable but it is better then the alternatives.
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    Shop Things to have in your dream shop!

    Security cables are for cameras and sensors so you should already be warned before they cut the cable. Also on the shop end only the gas line enters the building through the outside wall so to cut the cables they have to find the source. and if they are willing to do that I doubt you are going...
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    Shop Things to have in your dream shop!

    No not hardwood it is a rubber flooring that comes in rolls. It is used and I buy this stuff from an outfit that does commercial flooring. Here is the add off of Kijiji "Rolls are 5' wide, 1/4" thick; lengths vary between 16'-25'. They look like hardwood gym floor and even have the court...
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    Shop Things to have in your dream shop!

    After looking through this there are a few items I would like to add. If you are doing any trenching add extra communication lines between the house and shop. I use them for controlling temperature and turning on and off various zones in the shop. Also used for security system and internet...
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    A funny video

    Good one! Every time I work on my skidsteer I curse the engineers at John Deere.
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    Cross Border Used Equipment Purchases

    Nice lathe
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