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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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    Tips/Techniques Painter's Tape - the Swiss Army knife of tape

    - I have used it to cover the surface of a tool such as a straight edge or level when I am concerned the tool might mark or scratch a pristine surface. - I have used it on a "story stick" for repetitive marking of measurements. Put all your info on the tape instead of the stick. When the...
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    Tips/Techniques Painter's Tape - the Swiss Army knife of tape

    No disrespect intended to the great Red Green but painter's tape is in my opinion even more versatile than duct tape. Keep in mind, a lot of the ways I have used painter's tape you might think, "I can do that with almost any type of tape". But the key feature is when you are done using it you...
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    Tool 2 kits of bits

    Today my wife brought home a pair of garden pruners from work where somebody had mistakenly reversed the locking lever. The lever had an uncommon screw head. To the master kit I go and of course I got it. The two kits of bits don't see the light day often but when I need to deal with an out...
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    Workplace Safety at work and in the home shop

    I was looking to buy one of those about a month ago. Haven't pulled the trigger but I should soon.
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    Really ?

    Was Ireland hosting the summer Olympics that year? No gymnasts, downhill skiers, and figure skaters allowed.
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    Rain in Edmonton

    Absolutely pouring down right now.
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    Really ?

    Somebody must've tried cleaning their silver tipped cowboy boots without taking them off.
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    Workplace Safety at work and in the home shop

    In my last job before retirement I was a maintenance supervisor. I used to have co-workers and managers give me that same spiel about responsibility for incidents. I would always refer back to a couple of more serious accidents that I was aware of but not involved and reply, "Tell me who got...
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    Workplace Safety at work and in the home shop

    Unfortunately that has been my experience, too. Fortunately, they seldom factored into our daily work and preferred to be hidden away. My experience with safety instructors when taking courses was the usually the opposite of the jobsite safety man. Almost always a great learning opportunity...
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    Really ?

    IMO that's probably the majority. Usually people get the adventurous spirit out of their system when they're young and then settle into a routine more disciplined lifestyle. Some people have no choice because they can't afford to do anything but work hard. His life was definitely...
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