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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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    CA-ON Small Fasteners

    You need to learn how to cheat! LOL! Drill deep, if you can, barring that, make the end that is NOT buried down the hole, the pretty end and trim the ugly end as required. Thread the holes, make a calibrated collet style wrench that has a stop that sets the lengths, or simply adjust up and down...
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    CA-ON Small Fasteners

    This diagram draws my attention to one detail that can really make a scale project shine, which is that in full size practice when most of the engines being modeled, were just normal working tools, the ends of studs were rounded over and reasonably finely finished, presumably to reduce the...
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    CA-ON Small Fasteners

    Those are pretty nice! One of the best iterations of a purpose built tool for confined spaces that I have seen in person, was a nut holder/starter wrench that a fellow at the Estevan Model Engineering Expo had made to deal with just this problem. You know how you would, on a full size machine...
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    Machinery's 20th

    I kinda doubt it crossed very many people's minds at the time. Machinery was a specialized, but fairly widely distributed source of information, news of what developments were taking place, in industry, changes in machines and tooling that were rampant in that era, etc. Pretty well known. A...
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    CA-ON Small Fasteners

    Do some looking at Lathe Box Tools, online. Essentially it is a turning tool with a built in steady rest, to allow you to do the take-down to threading diameter in a single pass, same as happens on a capstan production lathe (where a Box Tool is certainly more common). Then, if yer really...
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    CA-ON Small Fasteners

    A source I have used in the past for rivets, screws, and assorted Hardware, is Aircraft Spruce and Specialty. Largely caters to Homebuilt Aircraft makers, Certified Aircraft maintenance and repair parts, and the like, some of which can run to the VERY eye-watering range, but I have told folks in...
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    Machinery's 20th

    "Machinery" was the name of a print magazine, that catered to Machine and Metalworking related shops. They saw a use for gathering together a lot of varied, and sometimes hard to find Data sets, as a valuable resource for Machinists as well as other trades. Thus it became "Machinery's" (it...
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    Wild Honey Bee Swarm

    It doesn't hurt, to mix as much sugar as you can dissolve in water, and fill a spray bottle with that. Go hose down the swarm cluster, and they 'might' not bugger off elsewhere. Their first instinct, leaving the hive, is to absolutely load up on honey, Makes the feel fed and dumb. Keeping them...
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    Wild Honey Bee Swarm

    On the 'gone fully Abo!' side of things, all you need is a hollow space for the bees to move in. Search "Skep". Not entirely legal, as they cannot be readily inspected Ideally, hit up a local beekeeper, for some hardware. At the very least, you need two boxes of frames, or foundation, a Bottom...
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    Don't Use FedEx for Any International Shipments

    Had issues in the past with both FedEx and UPS charging stupid fees. Got told by one vendor that BOTH had been touting the same line, that Canadians were simply trying to pay duties and taxes. Told every one that said that, that I was fully expecting the duties and taxes, just was not willing...
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