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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. slow-poke

    DavidR8's shop shenanigans

    Good body goes a long way. Most VW engines are fairly reliable, clutch and transmission not so much. Check the cooling fan. I have never changed a clutch on a FWD vehicle, RWD is pretty simple just 10 easy to access fasteners + shifter and the transmission is out. FWD looks to be a bit of a...
  2. slow-poke

    What is more valuable?

    Matt, We do have many excellent specialists here. FWIW, a very good friend of mine was diagnosed with a nasty brain tumour and was told there was nothing they could do, you. have about 3 months. He went to Mayo for a second opinion and they told hime yes 3 months if you do nothing, however the...
  3. slow-poke

    Help from the electronic gurus

    Joshua great googling, I don't speak Russian and did not try the translation feature but looks like an excellent link. Skippyelwell.....Probably just don't leave it unattended and assume the low voltage leads may be low voltage across them, but might be at hazardous voltage WRT Earth if the...
  4. slow-poke

    Help from the electronic gurus

    If you can count the number of LEDs it should give you and estimate of the power supply voltage (if they are all in series) about 3.5V per LED typically (varies from 2.8 up to 4V). Current is probably 20-30ma, assuming they don't have groups of LEDs in parallel, then 20-30 per group. That's a...
  5. slow-poke

    What is more valuable?

    Health is obviously more important. You can't do anything without it.
  6. slow-poke

    DavidR8's shop shenanigans

    I like Amsterdam, interesting city. Many of the houses come complete with a 2nd floor pulley arrangement handy for lifting heavy equipment to the 2nd floor;-) Van Gogh museum is worth a visit if you fancy his art. The district that might appeal to another vice is interesting to visit not sure I...
  7. slow-poke

    DavidR8's shop shenanigans

    What brand?
  8. slow-poke

    Physical activities…..

    Normally: walk, swim 1km day, ride my mountain bike in summer and ski in winter. In the past jogged and played soccer from age 10 to age 50, when I stopped I gained 35 lbs, have you ever seen a fat (real) soccer player? Hint they don't exist. Last 3 months nothing, excruciating back pain...
  9. slow-poke

    Thinking of contacting Klein Tools

    I made a living as a consultant fixing every conceivable type of circuit. Most of these were large companies that you would expect to have sound engineering practices however the reality is many of these companies have hollowed out their engineering departments for lower cost outsourced options...
  10. slow-poke

    Thinking of contacting Klein Tools

    FWIW, I have a few higher end bench DMMs, by default the input impedance for acv is 1 MOhm in parallel with 100pF. This is by design to minimize displayed noise. They also have a mode that switches the input impedance to > 10 GOhm for situations where you're measuring voltages in high impedance...
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