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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. Six O Two

    Xyphota's bicycle related projects

    I hear cerrobend talked about every now and then, but in addition to being pretty pricy, as Xyphota intuited it always seems more complicated than it's worth (For reference here and here). Definitely seems like bending over dies in various contraptions is the way most framebuilders go about it.
  2. Six O Two

    Xyphota's bicycle related projects

    The welds as pictured look awesome - I'd certainly be happy with that result. Bike tube bending seems like such a black art to me. It's very hard to find good information on how to accomplish it, and it seems to take a lot of trial and error! I'm only on bike #2, and I think I'll be using...
  3. Six O Two

    Industrial felt supplier in Canada

    I'll likely have to replace some way wipers as well. What's best in this case? F-1? F-5? Something else?
  4. Six O Two

    Marking out on mild steel with mill scale- good markers?

    The red & silver streak pencils can also be bought at KMS tool. https://www.kmstools.com/la-co-markal-silver-streak-welder-39-s-pencil.html I alternate between a silver sharpie and and the silver pencil for saw cutting, like @Dan Dubeau above.
  5. Six O Two

    Good source for link belts?

    amazon... https://www.amazon.ca/s?k=link+belt&ref=nb_sb_noss the 5' length was somewhat frustrating to me. Just a bit short for two belts, not sure what I'll use my remnant for...
  6. Six O Two

    Ham Steak. $1.88 in 2019 $5.99 this past week

    Yeah, it's crazy. Butter used to be 3.99/lb. Now it's $6.49-6.99
  7. Six O Two

    Disposing/Recycling Power Tool Cases

    Hang on to it until your next road trip to neighbouring province? The recycling depots in BC will take most plastics. Kinda goes both ways, I pack my used cooking oil back to Alberta to recycle.
  8. Six O Two

    Components

    These guys make some pretty fancy-looking grinders in BC, with a price to match (although they do also have lesser priced kits). https://vashtigrinders.com/collections I've come pretty close to buying the HouseMade grinder kits but the Scotsman in me couldn't bring myself to spend the money...
  9. Six O Two

    What did you do for a career and would you pick it again?

    I worked summers at a few bikeshops through high school and university. Being a bike shop mechanic is the job I hold most fondly in my heart and often think of returning to, but of course it's crap pay and really hard to support a family or buy a house being a bike mechanic.
  10. Six O Two

    What did you do for a career and would you pick it again?

    What an amazing thread! It's great reading and learning from the life experience on this forum. I've known a few welders that went back to school to get an engineering degree, but I've never met someone who went the other way. As for myself, 10 years out of university I found myself in pretty...
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