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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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    DIY tool holders.

    Nice work, I would never guess they were welded and done on the lathe and not a mill. You must have been on quite the tangent back then:).
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    Tools you waited too long to acquire

    Here are two of my new tools the timeless classic toolmakers clamp. I made the small one first and really liked it so decided on a larger version with plans for a matched pair someday. Spinning them open and closed never gets dull and they have incredible clamping power. Not sure why I didn't...
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    Gage pins

    Funny, eager to play with my new gage pins I brought them downstairs and initial tests were way on the small size, quickly realizing the 5 hours in the trunk at 0 being the culprit for the shrinkage. :) After reading an @Dabbler suggestion somewhere I have started a practice of grabbing random...
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    Ball Bearing Collet Nuts

    I have been using the other one for over a month and its the one I reach for, in fact it was motivation to get this job done as the mill and lathe were fighting over it. The collets snap in and are held well when threading in I have one that is very sloppy and the collets would slip out on...
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    Ball Bearing Collet Nuts

    I purchased a couple of ER40 nuts from ali express and one was perfect but one the slots for the wrench weren't milled deep enough so the wrench wouldn't fit on, I messaged for a refund and initially they refused but I think they thought the whole order but all I wanted was refund for one nut...
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    Product Repairing a brand new PA lawn roller

    I think the worst thing you would get would be a store credit, they are pretty good.
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    Gage pins

    About a week after I got these I kept checking the seller for new ads, and sure enough a nice starrett gage block set came up and so I messaged the lady and said I would come on Friday to get it, great my first starrett purchase, she messages me the next day that a co worker had claimed it and...
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    Tap Sockets/Drivers

    Think using a nut on the square end of a tap to turn it cheap and dirty.
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    Gage pins

    Lucky enough to up my gage game with these boxes thanks to @fixerup for tip, used by a company that had an antenna division but does not any more so these became surplus to their needs. A bit of an investment at $100 per box but in the long run I am sure I will find many uses for these I...
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    Radon gas mitigation in our home.

    Out neighbors alerted of us high levels of radon were discovered when they were putting a bedroom in the basement, so I bought a meter off of amazon and sure enough our levels were very high >800 so I got a window open and got the air moving around better brought it down some but not enough, as...
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