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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. whydontu

    Reamer Dreamer

    Current project involves a series of 22mm holes in 0.045” steel, need to be accurate enough to match between multiple layers of steel sandwiched together. Sequence will be layout and scribe, center punch, 1/4” holes using Roper Whitney #12 hole punch, step drill to tight fit to Greenlee hole...
  2. whydontu

    Gift for myself. LF common wisdom

    Do you cook? A really nice set of Wusthoff knives, Le Creuset cast iron pots, German-made Henckels stainless steel pots (or All-Clad if you can get past the US-made current concerns)
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    Tips/Techniques Neosporin In The Shop

    Saw this today on FB: I'm sharing some wisdom with all my fellow machinists today. I used to put a dab of grease on the stem of the rout-a-burr blade to lubricate and help keep a smooth rotation while deburring parts. Now that I'm older and wiser I use Neosporin to lubricate the blade. That way...
  4. whydontu

    Tool New Measuring Tool Idea?

    Well that’s too obvious, which is why I didn’t think of it.
  5. whydontu

    Tool New Measuring Tool Idea?

    Ok, so I often need to lay out pipe sections, many times to locate diametrically-opposed outlet connections. Also have to check out-of-round and establish whether out-of round is within fairly sloppy tolerances. Size ranges from 0.405” o.d. to 12.75” o.d. So my idea is to fabricate a very...
  6. whydontu

    More Old Iron - Small Sizes

    Breast drill is a hand-powered drill that has a curved plate on the outside end, so the operator can brace the drill against their chest to get more feed thrust on the bit. I’ve never seen a turret drill before I got this one, I guess the rotating chuck angle would make it look a bit like a...
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    More Old Iron - Small Sizes

    Three new hand drills. Two two-speed breast drills, one changes speed by moving the drive pinion, the larger one has a slick little toggle switch to change speeds. The smaller one has a three-jaw chuck, the larger has a very robust two-jaw, I haven’t decided if I’ll stick on a keyless three jaw...
  8. whydontu

    SFM Question - Possibly Stupid

    Thanks!
  9. whydontu

    SFM Question - Possibly Stupid

    Silly question - on a CNC lathe, is it programmed to change spindle RPM to maintain a set SFM as the workpiece diameter changes? (I woke up at 5:00 AM wondering about this. Time to change the dosage.)
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    Tool Inexpensive demagnetizers?

    Stupid thought - we used to use a simple coil-in-a-box to bulk erase magnetic recording tape. Do these still exist? (Lord, I'm old.)
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