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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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    Bought a standard modern 11" series 2000

    so spent some time on the lathe. No serious projects yet. But I tried to do some threads.. I set the threading gearbox as the chart shows, as well as the course fine selector but it seems to be cutting twice as many tpi as the chart indicates, I even set it for half the TPI and it's a lot closer...
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    Bought a standard modern 11" series 2000

    Yeah I've been watching some videos on sharpening hss. I have enough of it around to last for a while. I'll get some pictures tonight hopefully to share on here
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    Bought a standard modern 11" series 2000

    I printed that out. Thanks!
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    Bought a standard modern 11" series 2000

    no it was a different one out towards goderich. I was just in there yesterday too, Didn't think to get a pail.
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    Bought a standard modern 11" series 2000

    Just bought my first lathe. I will be learning to use it having no expririence with lathes or machine work. Have been wrenching on my vehicle and farm equipment and welding but never got into machining. Would mostly be using it for simple stuff such as pins and bushings etc at least to start...
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    New guy here and new to machine work

    Thanks for the reply. I lost the bit of ground I was renting for cash cropping but work on a local farm and still may pickup land again in the future.. So Preferable to get a lathe big enough to be useful when it comes to farm type work. I'd be 2 1/2 hrs away. Bought a couple tractors from...
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    Hi from southern ontario

    Yes farmed a bit on my own on the side but work on a farm full time, mostly hay with some cash crop and cow/calf. Near burlington/hamilton area
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    Hi from southern ontario

    I'm from hamilton area as well.
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    New guy here and new to machine work

    Forgot to add that, I'm from southern ontario
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    New guy here and new to machine work

    I am mostly into welding type projects etc and some welding at work fixing farm equipment/wagons/trailers etc. Been learning tig at home. Lot's of times the ability to turn a piece of round stock down or make a simple tool would have been very handy too me when fixing equipment. I wouldn't have...
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