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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

    Need Fastener Engineer Skill Set

    Responses: Can’t be through bolted, many sections of the piping system need to be removed in service, and a typical section will be a valve > flange x flange pipe spool > valve, and we need to be able to remove the pipe spool without disturbing the valves. Because the valves must remain in...
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    Need Fastener Engineer Skill Set

    Ok, here’s a question for one of our members who has lots of letters after their name. P.Eng would be good for a start. I have a project that needs a lot of butterfly valves. Lug butterfly valves have tapped bolt holes in a cast iron or ductile iron body. These valves are sandwiched between...
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    Ham Steak. $1.88 in 2019 $5.99 this past week

    I don’t know. In 1963 my father was the principal if a brand-new elementary school, and he earned the princely sum of $1000 a month.
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    Shake my head sometimes

    Does this happen often?
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    How to get the index ring back onto the hand wheel?

    My father always said “when all else fails, cheat”. Great words of wisdom, particularly applicable to home shop machinists.
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    Tool Replacing a spring punch tip

    Cheap scribers with replaceable carbide tips are 1/8” shanks. $12 off Amazon.
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    Canadian source for 4mm and 6mm poly tubing

    Mettle Air in Ontario
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    JCDammeyer's 42 projects

    Forgive my ignorance of all things formal-CNC. My CNC engravers run on GRBL controllers, and a CAM/CNC program called Estlcam. When I place a metallic workpiece on the platen, I then install my chosen cutter and run a surface scan. (Quick-n-dirty, the workpiece is grounded, the cutter is...
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    The hypocrisy and unfairness in schooling

    I never let my schooling interfere with my education. (Mark Twain) Grade 10 PE class. I’m 15, 5’10”and weighed maybe 100 lbs. I hated PE. Class is playing basketball. I’m avoiding the ball as much as possible. and nobody’s going to pass me the ball, because that would be stupid. So I’m...
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    Hello from Vancouver

    Welcome from Steveston!
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