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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. Crankit

    Starter Equipment Advice

    I've got a ton of taps from my obsession of collecting GTD tap handles, I would by a set cheap either on market place or ebay to get the handles so I collected a pile of taps. I have that CT set to run through a messed up hole and a HSS for cutting a new hole, if I was to do it over I would buy...
  2. Crankit

    Looking for a Lathe Face Plate and a Lathe Dog Drive Plate

    lol....feeling my pain! Welcome to the world of having English made machinery. I bought all my misc spindle mounts at the same time to save on shipping charges. The Boxfords are actually 9 1/4" so the 9" faceplates do fit on them
  3. Crankit

    Looking for a Lathe Face Plate and a Lathe Dog Drive Plate

    If you really get desperate enough this is the one I got for my Boxford(SB clone) seems decent enough and the Whitworth 55 degree threads will fit the American 60 degree but not vice versa....FML!:rolleyes: https://www.chronos.ltd.uk/product/9-diameter-faceplate-for-boxford-lathes-1-1-2-x-8-tpi/
  4. Crankit

    Site slow or unreachable at times

    seems fast for me tonight at 10:30 Pacific
  5. Crankit

    Site slow or unreachable at times

    Rarely have I found issues but I am having one now with this topic not responding, either in it accepting the like(ing) of Joshua's post or moving to the next page....won't do either. I'm getting an Error 525 as well
  6. Crankit

    Best cobalt drill bit set ??

    I have a 750 that will do split point but I've never used it yet for any as the Cle-line set and misc split points I have are like new. Project Farm did testing on drill sharpeners and the General jig and the DD 750 both did well
  7. Crankit

    Best cobalt drill bit set ??

    A machinist who I bought some tools and bits from showed me baggies(sorted to sizes) of drill bits he had picked out of the garbage can at a shop he worked at in the lower mainland. Young guys would toss them and get a new one from the crib so he took them and bought one of those drill doctors...
  8. Crankit

    Looking for some long set/grub screws

    KBC carries low and high quality ones...
  9. Crankit

    Current Off Shore Order ETDs

    My guess is there is an import documentation or addressing issue
  10. Crankit

    Missing part on rebuild

    Gib(wedge) for adjusting the dovetail?
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