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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. J

    WTB 6'-10' metal planer BC

    Now that my shop is coming closer to being finished, figured I would start putting my feelers out too see If I can locate a metal planer to take up some of my new found space. I'm not picky on condition aslong as has enough parts to possibly make it functional. Willing to travel few provinces...
  2. J

    New to me box level

    Finally bit the bullet after watching it for a while on market place. Surprised no on else ended up with it as I'd been watching it for 14 weeks lol. I sold some junk around the house and inturn made room for different junk with the funds.
  3. J

    Living a by a landfill has its perks.

    Went to the dump today to doing some scavenging for a DC motor for a project and got my self a basicly new chop saw. Plugged it in and it fired right up doesn't appear to be anything wrong with it missing the bolt that holds on blade and the cord has some damage and the head lock down is...
  4. J

    Homemade cabbing machine from scrap.

    After Seeing the rock tumbler thread I felt like a few may enjoy looking a lopsided and not very thought out cabbing machine Made from the finest of random stuff I had laying around only thing that was purchased was the cabbing wheels. Stuff on bottom shelf is some stuff I need to process I...
  5. J

    Any one else run wood boilers?

    Been a warmer winter this year so the boiler has been idling more and probly didn't help that I was running the boiler hard to keep shop warm for concrete. So the boiler water hasn't been at optimum water temps. Anyways just finish cleaning it out yesterday and removed 95% of creosote What a...
  6. J

    Tool New to me Harig Grind-All No.1

    Finally got my Christmas present the other day and it's got some problems but not the end of the world problems So it came missing some stuff like the indexing pin and locking screw aswell as the fine adjust screw. I posted some questions about it over on PM forums but ended up figuring out...
  7. J

    Making of a flat lap.

    I figured it would be nice to be able to lap small objects and make them look more refined and shinny. So I dug a piece of scrap cast iron out of seacan and looked around all my random cut offs of stuff I've collected and found a suitable piece of aluminium for the 3 flat surfaces I need to...
  8. J

    If tools could talk

    I always find it neat when I'm digging threw my stuff and see markings on tools everyone has a different way of engraving and lettering. It also kinda neat to know who the tool belonged but most of the time it's unknown so it adds to the mystery. Sure if I dug around more I could probly find...
  9. J

    Something I would never do in my shop.

    I like the idea but the risk of damaged equipment/tooling doesn't seem very economical for the price. Mind you for what he is asking good deal for renter I think.
  10. J

    Modified steady rest - lumby BC

    I saved a modified steady rest from getting scrapped. It's no use to me was gonna see if it could be of use to someone. Free to good home can ship if you cover cost.
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