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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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    Princess Auto tools

    Yes, I have a few, can't always justify the price for the the amount of use for the really good stuff. Anyway, went to use my load tester the other day, and no go, volt meter was working, nearly nothing on the amp meter. Very strange. Opened it up, as I thought, wonder if a bad or loose...
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    CA-AB Drill rod/Silver steel Calgary

    Needed some 5/8in. drill rod, stopped in at "Blackfoot Industrial Centre" on Tuesday. They have a decent selection in both imperial and metric diameters. Water hardening "W" was what I got, I think it may all have been, not sure. $49.00 all in.(36 in. Stick). Good/bad?? Anyway they had some, I...
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    Off shore taps

    So I am needing some smaller metric taps, 3, 3.5, 4 mm, anyone having any luck with" Amazone"stuff? Any particular make/brand? Plan on trip to Lethbridge tomorrow, will see what Fastenal has, as have to get some threaded hard ware anyway there or at one or 2 of other place. Hope for 1 stop...
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    Wade ring scroll chuck

    Any one know which way to turn the ring on a ring scroll chuck to loosen the jaws? This is not a heavy duty chuck, don't want to break it or the back gearing. Facing the jaw end of the chuck, I would think counter clockwise, as normal rotation while cutting would tend to keep chuck tightened up...
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    Cutting threads with no index plate

    Found a mention of cutting threads on gear change lathes when indexing plate is missing/unreadable. This applys to inch lead screws. Multiply number of threads per inch on lead screw and the number of threads to be cut by a common number that will give a result for the gears with the lathe...
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    In Alberta.

    New member, down at Vulcan Alta. Slowly getting a small place set up. Retired nearly 2 years, getting used to a smaller pay cheque.
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