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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. FatherWes

    Tools you waited too long to acquire

    I bought the same 6”/150mm caliper, for the same reason. I have a very nice Staedtler electronic caliper. Seems like the batteries are dead every time I go to use it (and you have to remove two tiny Phillips head screws to undo the battery cover, so removing the batteries after each use to...
  2. FatherWes

    Tig settings

    Some great suggestions here! I’m a newbie TIG welder too (actually, newbie ‘welder’ full stop). But I have experienced almost all of your issues and I am struggling through. I have found that I can reduce burn through by laying a 1/16” filler rod right down on the buttweld seam. Melting...
  3. FatherWes

    Rollup Door 12 VDC motor and controls

    Thanks! I've been scratching my head, struggling with that exact point. I cannot figure out why the control terminals for S1 and S4 are linked together, but the the electrical connection is secured and look like they've been wired that way forever. As is, it just makes no sense to me, and I...
  4. FatherWes

    Rollup Door 12 VDC motor and controls

    I picked up what I believe is a driver for an overhead door. It consists of a gear assembly with a steel detachable chain sprocket, a 12 VDC motor (Nameplate says MBJ 4201), and an arrangement of 4 relays or solenoids. I suspect it may have operated from a single interrupt type button and...
  5. FatherWes

    3.5" floppy drive.

    I’ve got a USB floppy drive (Hitachi if I recall correctly (and a USB CD/DVD-RW). Bought both used for maybe $10 or $20, way back. Both have worked fine for over a decade (not used often. Maybe once a year…) My point is; there are good USB drives out there. Maybe search for older, brand name...
  6. FatherWes

    Ideas as to how to embiggen this hole?

    Could you cut the down tube a couple inches above the bottom bracket shell, drill down inside to your 3/4”, and repair the down tube with a weld and external pipe collar/gusset? To be fancy, the gusset could be fitted into the bottom bracket, for increased rigidity.
  7. FatherWes

    Tools you waited too long to acquire

    My experience has also thought me to not trust temperature measurements using IR guns on shiny metal, especially stainless or aluminum, but bearing races too. Spray a tiny spot of black paint on the surface and measure off that. @chickenlights highlighted the other, more correct way of dealing...
  8. FatherWes

    To Those in the Line of Fires

    Camper is packed, ready to leave anytime. Lightning strikes with virtually no rain this evening were hard on the nerves. Fingers crossed nothing comes of it. But. We’re very fortunate. We’re still at home. We still HAVE a home. We have friends who are not, and a few who do not.
  9. FatherWes

    What are these? Any ideas?

    @van123d Thanks! When I first saw the plane, my thoughts were that someone had rescued a plane whose base had been damaged. The more I looked at it, the more it looked like it might have been manufactured like this. The way the wooden base is connected just isn’t what I’d expect from a...
  10. FatherWes

    What are these? Any ideas?

    A couple items from a friend’s ‘collection’. He passed away and his widow is sorting through a large collection of stuff. Tractors, farm implements, tools, collectibles. These two are interesting. The hand plane is metal, but has a wooden plate about 1/4” thick on the bottom. No...
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