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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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    Tool Autocollimator?

    Any one know where I can get a decent optical autocollimator with .2arc second resolution? Hoping to spend 1K or so….not many options on eBay
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    Revisiting weird gib issue

    Hello All, Finally managed to disassemble my mill tab to be able to focus on the saddle gib issue. The y axis gib was rocking up and down when tightened and there’s a very long thread discussing the potential causes of the issue which can be found here...
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    Brown&Sharp No2 surface grinder any good?

    Hello All, I’ve been on the lookout for an affordable surface grinder for my small garage shop and I can’t really afford (money and space) any of the import ones I could find online. I found a Brown and Sharp No. 2 surface grinder which appears to have a small enough footprint to fit in my...
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    CA-ON Source for cast iron in Ontario

    Hi, Does anyone know where I could get small quantities of Durabar or similar grey cast iron in Ontario? I found the distributor of Durabar in Ontario but their catalogue lists lots of a few hundred pounds of material so I didn’t even bother calling them.
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    Motion when locking the axis

    I just received a PM-728 and working on setting it up. I’m fairly new to adjusting tapered gibs setup and I noticed that my X and Y axis move in the range of .0008-.0016” when I lock the axis. I’m assuming this is not normal and my gibs are too loose? Also my Y axis gib moves up and down...
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    Product KBC Grade A surface plate dyed granite??

    Hi All, I just picked up a Grade A 2 ledge 24x18x3 surface plate from KBC. The plate appears black all around but when I was installing the 3 point supports on the bottom I noticed that the plate is actually bright grey and appears to be dyed black. After cleaning for the first time with...
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    CA-ON Source for music wire in Ontario

    Hi, I’m looking for music/spring wire to make some custom springs. I’ve never made springs before but I understand the general idea. Im not sure what wire thickness I need but I think generally 1-1.5mm should do…I’m making a custom spring to hold my diy pneumatic wrench power drawbar. I need a...
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    Tool Looking for a decent ER32 R8 collet chuck

    Hi, I'm looking for a ER32 R8 shank collet chuck with reasonable TIR. The ones I could source on Amazon(including the pricier Accusize) all have a runout > .04mm/.0015" which is relatively high for using small end mills(1-3 mm range). Any suggestions?
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    looking for 30x30 pallet and crate

    Hello, I'm looking for a standard 30x30 wooden pallet and crate in the Burlington/Hamilton/Oakville area if anyone has one and wants to get rid of it.
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    Mill Stand Design - Static Stress

    Just sharing this for fun more than anything...but I decided to run my simple 2x3-1/8" tubing design through static stress simulation in fusion360 with 450 lb-force(3000N) and this is what I got: Love it when I see over engineered in the result :D
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