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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. LenVW

    Tips/Techniques Workshop Organization- things that have made a difference for you

    You’re lucky if you can wait for it to melt. In Ontario, we are looking at -20deg C on Tuesday nite, we are not into Spring yet !!
  2. LenVW

    Tool Identifying this dial indicator

    Correct. Digital gauges are also subject to static interference which can cause ‘jumps’ in readings (use grounding leads to minimize). A vernier or mechanical dial indicator is a go to metrology tool.
  3. LenVW

    Other Shop footwear - what's on your feet?

    Timberland, Kodiak, . . . Anything that will keep my Size 15, EEE . . .safe. Up until 10 years ago I would buy a couple new pairs when I was in Chicago for the NPE. Now teenagers are getting so big that stores have ‘inventory’ of large sizes.
  4. LenVW

    Other Canadiana - Last Minute (St. Catharines) test indicator

    We developed cereal process equipment for all of the Western Hemisphere plants. North, South and Central American Kellogg’s sites. I was a young mechanical designer back when London was a testing site for new product development at the state-of-the-art food plant. (High Speed packaging, C.I.P...
  5. LenVW

    Other Canadiana - Last Minute (St. Catharines) test indicator

    I have used AutoCAD, ProEngineer and Solidworks, but, it is just cool to layout a piece of equipment on the ‘board’ and ‘shade’ it to create depth and perspective. I still like to start sketches on my board.
  6. LenVW

    Other Canadiana - Last Minute (St. Catharines) test indicator

    Wow !! . . . Is that a ‘T’ Square ? That drafting board is antique compared to mine which was bought out of Kellogg’s Engineering office in London, Ontario . . . in the 1990.
  7. LenVW

    Kinda cool?? Anyone have one?

    We had a VOLSTRO attachment at Ex-Cell-O Special Tools. They seem to be very rare these days. (CNC has made them an expensive option) Alternate process: Mount your workpiece on a Rotary Table and position it with the Center of Rotation located properly from the OD edge of your mill cutter.
  8. LenVW

    Tips/Techniques Dimensioning and tolerancing

    Descriptive Geometry was a topic I was taught back in college in the 1980s. I rarely used it for work after CAD was introduced in the 1990s. I just remember the one rule . . . “Lines must be perpendicular to the plane to be ‘true’ length. Can in handy for doing ‘flat layouts’ of diverters and...
  9. LenVW

    Tool Identifying this dial indicator

    Looks like it is a ‘Federal Mogul’. At least that was the brand line in the late 1990s. American company in the automotive and aeronautics industry. Jeff Joslin with this group maybe able to help . . . http://vintagemachinery.org/
  10. LenVW

    Mill Accuracy

    Remember to use your ‘axis locks’ to reduce slack that will increase as your mill ages. Whether you have HAAS, TOSHIBA or off-shore workcenters there will be a degree of play in the leadscrews. The key is to use the correct practises to compensate for the play between components. Also, Always...
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