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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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    Tool Mitutoyo digital reading low -- is this a known problem?

    BINGO! Very strong light behind the closed jaws revealed the problem -- the pointy ends of the jaws must have been hit in a drop event -- << looks around for the culprit >> -- a thin parallel line of light through closed jaws. After a very careful stoning of the jaws to remove the burr on...
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    Tool Mitutoyo digital reading low -- is this a known problem?

    This is an older Mitu CD6-CSX that has seen only light use. Have a job here setting shims in mechanical injectors so I wanted a quick and reliable way to measure them from stacks that I have laying around. Quick yes. Reliable, not so much. They weren't measuring to known stock thicknesses with...
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    Atlas tool post grinder

    C Congratulations Dabbler!
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    Wanted: milling vertical spindle motor - Victoria BC

    DC motors by the look of it? Price is right!
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    Wanted: milling vertical spindle motor - Victoria BC

    I should mention I have $500-ish into the mill so far. There are two ways to think about this I guess. Lots of headroom to buy a good motor, or, ending up with a motor that costs more than the mill :-|
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    Wanted: milling vertical spindle motor - Victoria BC

    Free would be great but free at a distance not so much. Not too long ago, multi-horse 3ph motors traded at scrap value. Now that I need one they are way more expensive, I guess because of cheap inverter drives. More expensive than single phase! The latter used to be $100 per HP, but now they...
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    Wanted: milling vertical spindle motor - Victoria BC

    Right, voltage. 220V would be best. If I have to go higher, looking at a VFD for sure. Not into transformers at the moment.
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    Atlas tool post grinder

    I'll play backup for Dabbler. Can probably pick up within 2 weeks.
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    Wanted: milling vertical spindle motor - Victoria BC

    Bridgeport clone that got stripped of motors and hand wheels. Any reasonable flange mount,** 3 ph, 2-ish HP and the Holy Grail would be 2 speed windings, but I'm ok with using a VFD. **I have to fabricate the mounting plate to fit as the buggers stole that too!
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    Wanted: JT33 wedge set

    Or go one further and make the split threaded nut/collar and then use wedges -- that way might be kinder to the threads and you don't want to mess those up. A couple of hose clamps on the split collar will do it.
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