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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. J

    Living a by a landfill has its perks.

    Nah more of missing a shoe and a broken finger lol. Nothing like those old 200 lb radial arm saws from the 70s Which is dumb considering all the "green" taxes and other stuff being pushed. Ye very little gets sold some gets turned into rags and rest get dumped in 3rd world country and some...
  2. J

    Living a by a landfill has its perks.

    Also dump is a good source for blower motors of various styles Dryers, stoves, furnaces, Furnace inducer motor Dryer blower Stove blowers not as useful but always available. And you can find more weed wackers and lawnmowers then you know what to do with. And treadmill motors which I...
  3. J

    Living a by a landfill has its perks.

    Went to the dump today to doing some scavenging for a DC motor for a project and got my self a basicly new chop saw. Plugged it in and it fired right up doesn't appear to be anything wrong with it missing the bolt that holds on blade and the cord has some damage and the head lock down is...
  4. J

    Homemade cabbing machine from scrap.

    You can use wet tile saw too same idea as slab saw but less expensive. Or really anything with diamond grit
  5. J

    Homemade cabbing machine from scrap.

    Shaft is 1" and 6" cabbing wheels and no issues just being center supported there was tiny amount of run out on shaft but the cabbing wheels had more run out out of the box. Wife doesn't have any complaints so far so I don't think a bit of run out is end of world mind you the shaft isn't...
  6. J

    Homemade cabbing machine from scrap.

    I would take you up on that, me and wife plan on joining the Vernon lapidary club in the spring so we can hope on some of there group trips. Finally got the valves we ordered from Amazon so was able to finish the water system.
  7. J

    Tips/Techniques 3 ph to single phase

    Good video about starting idler with motor Good video about building cap start motor and more or less same design I went with. It's kinda a mess of wiring so would be hard to figure out just from pics. I'll see if I can find original wiring diagram I used but the 2nd video I posted covers...
  8. J

    Tips/Techniques 3 ph to single phase

    I like the phase converter path as my milling machine is 5hp 550v so had to go down that path it was cheap compared to getting motor rewound or replace the motor. Im sure I could of jerry rigged something but it was less effort to build phase converter and the cost can be drastically reduced if...
  9. J

    Homemade cabbing machine from scrap.

    That's good to know, and we try to avoid buying stone as it's more interesting and rewarding to find them. But sometimes it's convenient to buy some stock to experiment with if it's cheap enough as some rocks are too expensive when you can just find them laying around. But maybe we can meet up...
  10. J

    Homemade cabbing machine from scrap.

    Wife says from box of random cut offs she bought when we visited the rock and gem show in Vernon few months ago as she wanted some flavors of rocks that are harder to find local to us. But from what I remember were all cut offs of rocks found in BC So the top right one and black one are from...
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