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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. pdentrem

    Tool Good Quality Files and where to purchase them?

    https://cardontools.ca/search?type=product&options%5Bprefix%5D=last&options%5Bunavailable_products%5D=last&q=Files
  2. pdentrem

    Tips/Techniques Show your shop related 3DP

    It is modeled for Morse 3 and I used a cinnamon bronze filament from Spectrum. Ken226 has posted many models for different collets systems as well. Pierre https://3dprintingcanada.com/products/a202?_pos=3&_fid=e029d2278&_ss=cHas
  3. pdentrem

    Tips/Techniques Show your shop related 3DP

    Mount in the cabinet.
  4. pdentrem

    Tips/Techniques Show your shop related 3DP

    Printed a tailstock accessory holder that Ken226 at thingiverse has graciously put out there. About 4 hours printing time. Pierre
  5. pdentrem

    Tips/Techniques Show your shop related 3DP

    Made an axle for the edge follower that we are making for our hot mills. The end facing is .374” and has 1/4X20 hole for a bolt to be put in place to make it easier to push/screw into the plastic hub that I printed a couple weeks ago. The other end is turned to .362” with the center section...
  6. pdentrem

    Tips/Techniques Show your shop related 3DP

    Co worker has a cheap GEM telescope mount and the gear stripped. 91 tooth 46 mm diameter. Not bad, will see how well it works with the worm gear tomorrow.
  7. pdentrem

    The hypocrisy and unfairness in schooling

    The curriculum is designed by bureaucrats and it details what and when you will teach. The teachers are somewhat confined by this. The good ones will add in some diversity when possible. My mother taught from kindergarten to grade 10 back in the 50s. Her experience was the middle grades were the...
  8. pdentrem

    The hypocrisy and unfairness in schooling

    A good friend was taking his check ride. This was at Niagara District Airport. He had rented an aircraft and he and the examiner took off on 24. Shortly after clear the end of the runway and maybe 100 ft up, the engine went to idle. No throttle control. The choice was straight into the plowed...
  9. pdentrem

    The hypocrisy and unfairness in schooling

    I took Business Admin and at that time we were required to take a Computer programming and the other was statistics. Since this was at the beginning of computers starting to show up at home, think Commodore 64 and TRS-80. Apple still a couple years away with their iconic 1984 Macintosh...
  10. pdentrem

    Cast Bronze Plaques

    Fiberglass or some type of epoxy. CNC routed. It can be coloured to match bronze and not likely to be stolen!
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