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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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    Machine Video of a healthy (?) Kopp variator

    From time to time I hear owners of vintage lathes equipped with the iconic Kopp variator mechanical drive despair at the noise, complexity and cost of the units. I have never seen, however, a video of a working or a defective drive unit to help people with diagnosis. My late series Colchester...
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    Tool Mitutoyo digital reading low -- is this a known problem?

    This is an older Mitu CD6-CSX that has seen only light use. Have a job here setting shims in mechanical injectors so I wanted a quick and reliable way to measure them from stacks that I have laying around. Quick yes. Reliable, not so much. They weren't measuring to known stock thicknesses with...
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    Wanted: milling vertical spindle motor - Victoria BC

    Bridgeport clone that got stripped of motors and hand wheels. Any reasonable flange mount,** 3 ph, 2-ish HP and the Holy Grail would be 2 speed windings, but I'm ok with using a VFD. **I have to fabricate the mounting plate to fit as the buggers stole that too!
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    Unusual tool post grinder

    I put this up on the Member Spotted forum but it is really more of a question than an advert. So this is a repost in a (hopefully) more appropriate forum. I'll delete the other one if I can. I've been looking for a tool post grinder for my chipmaster on and off for a while. The lathe is a...
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    CA-BC What kind of steel in CV half-shaft axles

    I had some junk half-shafts around and cut the axles out before scrapping the CV joints. Languished under the bench for a while but recently I had a fixture that I wanted to make from something other than HR mild steel. Whatever the axle part is made of does not like to be turned in my lathe...
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    New member, Victoria BC

    Hi there, I'm Chris Bose, a new member from Victoria. I have a garage workshop with some old machine tools and a cute little Colchester Chipmaster lathe, a job and a family to look after. You can probably guess the rest.
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