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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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    Casting sand

    Capilano college used to have a casting program but closed it down in about 2013. They sold off their muller and a local fellow here bought it. When he picked it up the fellow on the loading dock said "That has to go too". He said it was petrobond and there were 20 or 30 20kg sacks of it. I...
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    Refining/reclaiming gold for inlay question

    Not sure how much a file and magnet would tell you. Alloys are the same colour all the way through and it is unlikely any alloy would contain iron. Brian
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    Product What's your favourite angle grinder?

    Chalk up another vote for Metabo. I have 2, one is about 40 years old and I had to change the bearings a couple of years ago. It took an awful lot of abuse. The second one is newer, larger, and has the quick change system which I don't really like as it feels like something that could go...
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    Inexpensive Tig welders

    I am surprised nobody has pointed out that a wire feed machine is constant voltage. Stick and TIG are constant current. A wire feed welder is so easy to use because if you change the arc length the resistance changes which affects the heat which affects the amount of wire melted. For example...
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    Smoke

    FWIW, I had a whole house honeywell electrostatic filter on my forced air electric furnace. It worked and it collected very fine dust but no where near as much as I thought it should. The pre filter screen was always thick with dust, cat hair, small birds etc. I found it a bit of a pain to...
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    How big of a monitor for Fusion 360?

    I use a 30" Dell which is certainly getting to the "maybe a bit big" level. Make sure you get as high a resolution as possible. Size is only useful if it has the resolution to match. A large TV is NOT the same as a large monitor. You can adjust the scale to make the text readable. You...
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