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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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    Product Cordless tools

    Using big batteries makes electrical tools pretty clumsy. An airline hose starts to make sense. I like the 3ah on my little 3/8" drill motor. It doesn't last, but what do you need on a drill motor.
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    Where to start...

    There is a saying "A workshop without a lathe and welding machine is naked. " There is more than a little truth to that. I'm not much of hobby machinist, more of if I need a part, so I'll see what I can do about it. The lathe and mill/drill just saved me $6,100 . That more paid off their cost...
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    New to me Ammco 7" Metal shaper

    My little 6" shop made shaper project wasn't made with one, he had just exposed sheaves. I bolted a 160mm hand wheel to the 3step sheave. A bigger one would have been nicer but that was the size of the one pulled off a metric machine from work. I picked it out of the scrape bin. A 10" hand...
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    Product Cordless tools

    I'm old enough to have seen that first great revolution in power tools, the variable speed reversible Skil 3/8 drill. That ability to drive screws was amazing. It was a revolution, much greater in Canada because we used Robertson screws. I had very low opinion of battery powered tools, the...
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    One less John on the Forum

    I'm truly sorry to hear of his loss. Because they lost a friend. And you gained a knowledge who your friends are. Ray
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    New to me Ammco 7" Metal shaper

    The millwrights at where I had worked at, put our tool boxes on carts to roll around the mill.Each millwright deigned his own and the company supplied 8" casters. My design had two low tool boxes back to back, and one on top. One was a sheet metal and the other was a plywood one I had made. They...
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    New to me Ammco 7" Metal shaper

    My double garage workshop is so chuck-a-block full , most machines are on wheels. The drum sander frame was no exception, so the frame goes all the way around. I have done this before under the metal lathe , using angle iron as slides for a couple of low tool box cabinets. My lathe sits pretty...
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    New to me Ammco 7" Metal shaper

    A shaper ,like a power hacksaw, is a rodeo. The sheet metal lower cabinets are really flimsy. And even with the low one, it would place your shaper arm pretty high. Since storage is a problem in my workshop, I welded up square tubing frame frame for my drum sander rebuild. I plan to make a...
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    New to me 6"Jointer

    As an apprentice carpenter I found out, the journeymen who were short a finger had lost it to a jointer.
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    What Are These?

    Oil refineries required cross dials , more complicated math, but pulp mills were happy with the simple rim and face. I think that was all the engineers understood. It was a fair bit of trial and error. If the sun shone on your motor, your numbers were out. Now with lasers , you set up and the...
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