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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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    Lathe Jaws

    Stefan Gotteswinter made a set of scroll chuck jaws a few years ago. Here is the first of three videos:
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    Southern Alberta Members?

    Tom, I'm not sure how the city decides what is ok and what is not. When we did a reno about 10 years ago I wanted to make a two story garage so I would have more room for wood working and storage on the second floor. Couldn't get a development permit for that because 2 story garages aren't...
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    Shop Built Steady Rest

    Craig, the advance is about 0.081" per revolution which is about 12 tpi (not 8 tpi as I said before). So, you end up with a pretty wide range of movement of the fingers with a small amount of movement of the knurled part. Yes, the brass tips can be retracted almost entirely into the frame. There...
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    Shop Built Steady Rest

    There is a slot milled into the fingers that the brass screw engages. There is nothing fancy, threads then turned down to be a good fit in the slot. Here is a picture of the parts. The part in the centre is threaded 3/4" - 32 tpi RH and 1/2" - 20 tpi LH and the top part has 20 tpi LH internal...
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    Shop Built Steady Rest

    It's just Rustoleum gloss paint brushed on. There was a lot of filing to round over all of the edges and clean up my ugly welds. Then bondo to smooth out the fillets followed by some light sanding by hand to give the paint something to bite into. For paint I used a sandable primer then the...
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    Shop Built Steady Rest

    On my lathe there is a vee and flat for the tail stock separate from the vee and flat for the carriage. I have used the tail stock ways for the steady rest. And yes it just uses a bolt/plate through to the underside of the ways to secure it. It is a bit fiddly to tighten it with a wrench, I...
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    Shop Built Steady Rest

    The round parts were band sawed to rough shape then pinned and screwed together. Then I mounted them on a rotary table and milled them round. When I welded on the base and the parts that make up the closure I also added a few tacks between the two plates. All of the parts of the fingers were...
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    Shop Built Steady Rest

    A steady rest has been on my list of things to build/acquire for years. It recently made it to the top of the list and here is what I came up with: It was made to fit an Emco V10P lathe and adjusts from about 1/4" to 3.5"+. That's plenty of range for what I do. The main body is two layers of...
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    Tool box organization

    For drawer liner, try the dollar store. You can get thin rubber drawer liner 3-4 feet long by about 18 inches wide for a couple of bucks. Way cheaper than the stuff that is sold for tool box drawer liner. For organizing drills, I made a bunch of wooden troughs that I cut up and glued together...
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    VFD Info

    I have both vertical and horizontal mills that are pulley driven and have VFDs on both. I find that most of the time I adjust the belts to an intermediate speed and then use a potentiometer on the VFD to control speed. I have both VFDs set to vary frequency from 5 Hz to 75 Hz and the motors...
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