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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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    Homemade Toolbit Grinding Jigs and setups.

    This one is homemade but from plans, I bought from eccentric engineering. It works, but does is finicky to set-up for one single grinding job. I adapted a holder to accept an ER collet set I had. I like the table design I made a second one and scribe some angles on the tables has guides. Your...
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    Quality countersink(s)

    I have a good quality butterfield countersink which produce a nice finish on the mill or the lathe. The cheap ones don't seem to work well at all in my machines. They leave lots of chatter marks. Recently I started using them in my cordless drill on the very low speed and have gotten some...
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    Fixerup patch up

    Made 12" of tee nut shape bar.Then proceeded to make some copy of the mighty bite low profile clamps.
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    Is this safe?

    I have done similar set up and found that a couple of C clamp on those plates would help reduce vibration between the plates and add some extra rigidity.
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    Spring or star washer question

    Yesterday I restored 4 scissor jack that used 16 E-clips each. I removed a total of 64 using a flat screwdriver while covering the E-clip with my finger tips. I am missing only one, it dropped on the floor and got lost in my garage floor mess. These E-clips were not the high quality spring...
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    Fixerup patch up

    My sticky MT2 milling machine spindle fix. I am getting tired and worried of hammering the draw bar holding my MT2 arbors. Has suggested I tried the dead blow plastic hammer and it didn't make a noticeable difference. So I finally decided to make a tool for the job. Luckily my MT2 spindle is...
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    Fixerup patch up

    Found 4 badly seized scissor jack in the dumpster. Just finished cleaning all the corrosion on the first one and it works great. It will be ideal for light lift and alignment setups.
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    Mistake

    I have got to try a plastic hammer or a dead blow hammer. My MT2 spindle is a real bugger to remove any MT2 arbor I stick in there. Everytime I hit the draw bar with a hammer I worry I will damage my spindle bearing.
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    Tips/Techniques Copying parts in a manual lathe

    I think it was setup sold by Eccentric Engeneering call a turnado. , pretty cool tool ! I had a friend who was so good at turning shapes freehand, he laugh at me when I told him I built radius turning tool. He said balls , sphere are the easiest to turn. contoured lathe handles just takes...
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    Fixerup patch up

    Cleaning up in the garden before the winter. Needed to hang stuff off the rafters. Made some hooks out of 5 gallon pail handles. A quick straightening of the rod, bend in half to double the strength and give some welding substance, bend on the universal with a 3" round and tack a large wood...
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