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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

    Seeing as how I have to drive into the belly of Toronto for tradeschool everyday, I've been stopping at every pawn shop, and thrift store I can find on my way home this week to make that drive more worth while. Not found a whole lot, but have picked up some nice tools for the work box. The 15"...
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    New to me Ammco 7" Metal shaper

    Congrats, but that was way too quick from acquisition to running. Making the rest of us look bad :D.
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    Announcing the 2025 Ontario Meetup April 26 in Aylmer

    Sounds like a good get together. Hopefully I'll get to the next one.
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    Welcome to Westwood Metalworks, What is he building in there?

    Bondo works great for wood and other material patterns, but not good for foam....I found that out the hard way years ago after gluing up and shaping a fiberglass buck to make a fiberglass seat cowl for my motorcycle. After getting it really close, I thought I'd skim a coat of bondo on there for...
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    Welcome to Westwood Metalworks, What is he building in there?

    I also remade my wheel pattern yesterday using only the hotwire, and some wax for fillers. Currently drying from the coating, but came out pretty good. In a way, I'm glad the last one failed, as I would have been pretty bummed to discover that it wouldn't have worked anyway.......I modeled...
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    Welcome to Westwood Metalworks, What is he building in there?

    Today was a cleanup day and I wanted to get my new box in the shop and on the casters that showed up yesterday. I flipped the box over to measure it for a cradle and low and behold it was already punched for casters....could....it...be...this...easy? Job done, bolt em on and move on.....no...
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    Buying from McMaster Carr

    OK that's WAY cheaper than the turcite strips I thought you were talking about. I also did a bit of reading on the toolmasters, and it's not the grinder I thought it was. I was under the impression that they were a pretty rough and rudimentary bench top machine, and that's not the case. I...
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    Insane 3D printing saves 85 year old Monarch ..... or powering my 10ee lathe

    Buttons? Hold downs? Fantastic use of old tools and tech time has mostly forgot about. The speed control mechanism is pretty clever too. I like how you hid the modern tech behind the existing controls. Well done, all around. Glad to see your channel back up and running.
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    Pouring shanks for crucibles

    Should be fine. Nice simple design, I like it. If you're worried about penetration with a 120v flux core machine, preheat the joint. Back when I only had a 120v flux core machine that's what I did for welds that were outside the normal parameters for that machine. Multi pass welds where...
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    Buying from McMaster Carr

    That's UHMW. Similar properties, but different. "may" work here, but will not have the same performance and longevity of Turcite made for this application. The lee valley stuff is pretty good within it's use case. Somewhere around here I probably have some left on a roll, but it's been a...
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