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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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    How to figure out the 3 wire measurement for a BSW thread

    Super, thank you so much Using my .063" wires I should measure .8974" over the 3 wires. I made a screw earlier and it measured .882 , over the wires, no wonder it was loose. It is hard to properly cut a screw thread without using the 3 wire measuring method. I usually can wing it using a nut...
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    How to figure out the 3 wire measurement for a BSW thread

    I am trying to cut a BSW thread 7/8" 9tpi. My three wire gauge set only has chart for 60 degree threads Metric or Standard imperial. Is there a chart using the same wire but for a 55 degree thread?
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    Tool Rag Ripper 3D print files

    Perfect tool for the garden. I will mount it on my garden cart, beside my large spool of twine string. I also use a lot of bed sheet cut in strips and tie my veggie plants with and some sheets are hard to start to rip. Thanks for posting!
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    Fixerup patch up

    A few years ago I bought an old style thread chaser, the one which has exchangeable dies. I never used it and thought it would be useful if I converted it into a large tap handle. It now can be used to drive taps or square shanks from 3/8 to 5/8". No modifications were done to the original...
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    How to dress a diamond edge cutting wheel

    I found out that white aluminum oxide stone 1 or 2 steps finer grit than the CBN wheel you are about to dress is adequate to deglaze your CBN wheel. They recommend to start your grinder let it get to speed and then turn it off, then slowly begin dressing the grinding wheel until it comes to a...
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    Wife's christmas gift... aka present to myself.

    I had a rental and needed to repair the shower grout asap, a small water stain was showing on the ceiling bellow. There was section which was grout less, the tiles had almost no spacing in between. I bought a small diamond coated blade aka grout remover with curvy handle and surface scratch...
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    Horizontal bandsaw table for vertical mode build

    After seeing your design, I realized what wrong with my build. I didn't weld support fingers along the saw slit and the table is flexing under heavy cut. Thanks for posting!
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    How to dress a diamond edge cutting wheel

    Thanks for posting the video and the time marker. Interesting, it makes sense, being such a fine grit they would have a tendency to plug up. I will have to look into if there is a dressing stick for my CBN grinding wheel, it seems to have lost its bite. I have some diamond wheel which I can...
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    Fixerup patch up

    My neighbor ask if I could make him an attachment for his sawzall, to mount a round chainsaw file. I made it of a .080" scrap stainless steel sheet and a modified 1/2" bolt with .200" hole and two set screws to hold the file. I then silver soldered both parts together. It was a simple project...
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    easy Schaublin w12 to er16 collet project

    would these work https://www.ebay.com/itm/313326060049
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