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  • Several Regions have held meetups already, but others are being planned or are evaluating the interest. The Ontario GTA West area meetup is planned for Saturday April 26th at Greasemonkeys shop in Aylmer Ontario. If you are interested and haven’t signed up yet, click 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. Manfred

    Blanchard / Surface grinding or just machining

    Hi All For the base of my DIY mill I have purchased a large piece of C-section steel. C10x25 26 inches long. The C-section is 10" wide, 26" long, web 0.526" and flange 2.886". 50lbs. https://www.advantagemetalservices.com/materials/carbon-steel/channel-chart/ I need the surface made suitably...
  2. Manfred

    DIY Mill

    Seeking some advice. Happy to supply more info on what I have and where I plan on going. Attached some pictures of my DIY mill mock-up. Yes, most of it is still wood and its been like that for a while. May have some time over the festive season and also decided rather than purchasing a...
  3. Manfred

    Tool Information of Carbide Inserts, Toolholders and other musings

    Found some info on the topic of inserts / carbides that may be of interest and decided to collect it all here: Light hearted intro: And Carbide Turning Inserts - Tutorial (by engineeringsupplies.co.uk) - YouTube Intro to the subject by Kennametal...
  4. Manfred

    Tool Beginners Guide to Vices

    Stumbled upon this and thought it may be of value to some: https://tormach.com/articles/the-beginners-complete-guide-to-machinist-vises#:~:text=Tramming%20a%20vise%20is%20the,the%20axis%20as%20it%20moves
  5. Manfred

    Hobby Machines!?

    https://samuraimachinetools.com/collections/h-machines I clearly missed the mark.
  6. Manfred

    CA-ON 1" plate GTA sourcing

    Looking for approx 12" x 24" x1" mild steel plate in the western GTA. Have searched the forums and not been able to find what I am looking for, Have quotes for $155.00 at Beech Road in Hamilton and $288 at my local Metal Supermarket - although in all fairness they will "sharpen their pencil"...
  7. Manfred

    DIY Mill Advice Sought

    As some of you may know, I'm (trying) to build my own lathe. Size is approximately the same as the LMS 6500 or the M1111 (roughly an SX2.7) I have the motors and most of the electronics as well as the LMS column and the M1111 table. will send photos and specs as a follow-up. What I am...
  8. Manfred

    Greetings from Oakville

    Refurbishing an EMCO Compact 5 lathe and building a CNC Mill from scratch while fixing up the basement and the deck. Happy to have stumbled on a Canadian Forum. Hoping to learn a lot and return the favour - as I get better at cutting metal.
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