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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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    20 something kids

    That's fair but your "basic tools" might not be so straightforward to someone else. That guy would probably feel the same way teaching my mom about spreadsheets. My wife needs to teach me every time how to make her a coffee (I don't drink them, or make them very often). This past weekend, I was...
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    20 something kids

    As a (sometimes useless) 29 year old, I'll say that it's rough out there in a variety of ways: - The entry level job market is tough, and a lot of entry level positions are being removed through automation, process-optimization or are taken by recent immigrants. It doesn't help that the hiring...
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    The ultimate filer

    While we were demoing the interior of our new house, my father in law diligently cleaned and disinfected a cabinet only for it to be almost immediately destroyed with a sledge. He's a filer and is diligent about the trash (probably not that diligent). Depending on my mood / present level of...
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    Auto ignition of oily rags

    As someone who is terrible at putting away my tools, I work so much better when everything is tidy and accounted for. I forget this while I'm distracted working on things so I go between "bomb site" and "pretty clean", usually with little in-between.
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    Solidworks for Makers @ CAD30.00 per year

    Integrated is REALLY nice because it lets you make model edits without having to re-do CAM (which is much more work than slicing a model). Also, once you get past 2.5D milling you will probably be doing things like modelling tabs and workholding which is way better in your preferred CAD than...
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    Solidworks for Makers @ CAD30.00 per year

    Not strictly true, I have a desktop icon to open mine and you can use "work offline" (link) to mostly avoid 3D Experience. I still regularly have to re-enter my login credentials though, and that is a pain in the butt. Also, installing the software was borderline kafkaesque for me and took...
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    Solidworks for Makers @ CAD30.00 per year

    I use Solidworks at work and Solidworks for makers at home and generally like it (I've used a variety of other CAD platforms in the past as well). I don't have performance issues on my home computer (ryzen 5 5600x w/ 32 gb RAM) but I also don't do all that much with it at home. Note that it...
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    Tips/Techniques Making the Square Drive hole in a custom socket.

    If I had joined this forum earlier I would have recommended just welding a socket on (I'm pretty sure you have a lathe). Any way, it sounds like a great time! I don't have kids yet but this is making me look forward to it.
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    Really ?

    In my experience people with "ordinary intelligence and prudence" are terrible at accurately assessing risk, myself included. I'm from Toronto and I know people who: - absolutely won't ride a bike on the roads but are comfortable riding off-road (no traffic) - absolutely won't ride a bike...
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    Sourcing Metal | General Discussion

    I've had really excellent service from https://dotcommetals.com/ They're in Bolton right near the princess auto and typically about half the price of metal supermarkets and better service. They also do local delivery, and have a nice pile of various offcuts for cheap. Unfortunately not open...
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