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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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    Weekly community thrift haul thread

    They call it strap-on for a reason. Nice tools, but some lubrication required when it comes time to pay for them....
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    John W’s tool grinder

    Looking forward to seeing this come together John. I've long wanted to do a similar project. What did you use for a core in that bottom failed casting? I had similar results from 3d printed patterns straight from the printer bed. Pretty rough around the edges, but otherwise fine for quick...
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    CXvise3 vise reviews or insight

    I cannot be held responsible if these import vise show up and do not meet your expectations of excellence :D
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    Weekly community thrift haul thread

    I always have my suspicions about the origin stories about many of the tools they sell in pawn shops. As such, I don't frequent them very often. Market place/kijiji provide much better deals directly with people without the greasy feeling of "did this tool have legs at some point?". On Market...
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    CXvise3 vise reviews or insight

    I have two of them on my Tormach. For the $, they are actually pretty decent, and accurate enough. Are they a Kurt or similar type clone? no, but used within their means, I have had no issues with them. Eventually I would like to remake the fixed and moving jaws to provide a bit more...
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    Weekly community thrift haul thread

    Can you show a picture of the backside? It's a woodworking face vice, so there should either be a couple ears on the backside with holes pointing up to secure to the underside of a workbench, or there should also be a couple holes through the fixed jaw to secure to the face of a workbench. It...
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    Weekly community thrift haul thread

    I'll see what I can do. Kids baseball is starting up this week (2 weeks earlier than I expected) so my weekdays M-T just got busier. If I get time to pop in and grab it, I'll let you know.
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    Welcome to Westwood Metalworks, What is he building in there?

    I took my first hand/manual drafting class today as part of my 433a trade school curriculum. When I started high school back in 1996, Our small high school had just gutted the well equipped shop class the year before and with it, the drafting portion. They replaced it with a "high tech"...
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    How Not to Produce a Simple Wood Pattern

    Very nice job on the drawing. I've always had an affinity for old hand drawn prints. I'm taking my first ever manual drafting class right now, so maybe I'll start to do some hand drawing for projects in the future too.....
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    Weekly community thrift haul thread

    Their mark up is not as bad as value village.... I've found most of the gta restores to be not that great for tools and stuff I'm looking for. The Peterborough ones used to be good, and I used to stop weekly at both when I worked there, but then they shut down the south one, and the guy that...
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