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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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    Busybee Black Friday Sale

    I just got an email - Here is their Black Friday Sale: https://www.busybeetools.com/pages/black-friday-sale.html
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    Nickel Plating Putter head

    Looking for some advice - I recently refinished a putter for a friend, sanded it and buffed it to a mirror shine and redid the paint fill. After a couple of rounds he comes back to me saying the putter is starting to rust badly. It looks like it was originally nickel plated. The putter is...
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    ML7 drive belt

    I replaced both my belts - I bought Fenner Belts from Busy Bee - they fit perfectly and are much quieter once they break in....
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    My first mill is a First mill

    I definitely recommend the LCD type DRO - very easy to read and use. Here is my install: https://canadianhobbymetalworkers.com/threads/yet-another-dro-install-king-kc-20vs-2.4866/
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    DRO Shaking

    I just finished installing our DRO on the mill this weekend and noticed only slight variation only in the y-axis. I tracked it down to the gibs - I tightened it up ever so slightly and the flicker completely went away.
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    Yet another DRO Install - King KC-20VS-2

    It is the ToAuto brand from ebay.ca The ship the non-lcd versions from Markham and the LCD dro's are shipped from China. They ship with DHL so it took less than a week to arrive to Mississauga.
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    Yet another DRO Install - King KC-20VS-2

    Thanks Len, So far so good - haven't blown the fuse yet. Mind you we really haven't pushed it too hard yet. Milled some mild steel the other day it is worked flawlessly.....
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    Yet another DRO Install - King KC-20VS-2

    Thanks - just need to tidy things up and deal with the many extra feet of cabling....
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    Yet another DRO Install - King KC-20VS-2

    My son and I have been enjoying the new mill and decided to install a 3-axis DRO on our new KC-20VS-2 mill. I decided to take a few pics of the install. Fortunately there are many videos\forum posts on installing a DRO on the G0704 - this mill is almost exactly the same so I had lots of good...
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    Z-Axis DRO for Column Mill?

    Agree.... I was thinking of getting a 3 axis LCD DRO similar to this one...
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