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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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    Busted alum fitting from pressure washer

    Hello gang. I had a pressure washer which I forgot to disconnect from pressure gun hose and got a frozen water damage on lower fitting. To my luck it is separate piece of die casted aluminium. Alloy is very light and fragile -no wonder I failed to weld it , considering my welding skills...
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    My weekend score

    Kuroda boring head (jam nut and one of the stops on other side are missing, unfortunately) with MT2 shank and CAT40 adapter for that boring head. Oddly enough - screw bore on MT2 shank is 5/16 -18 while draw bar on my bridgeport is 3/8. Need to machine adapter and spacer on top to compensate...
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    Opinion needed about heavy cast iron junk (use to be surface grinder)

    Hello gang. Looking for your ideas how to use this pieces with maximum profit :). Here are my ideas Idea A - bring to the junk yard, sell for +/- 200CAD . Buy another pice of junk :) I've seen there heavy duty portal crane in quite a good shape. Idea B - Keep it and reuse some...
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    LF: Info on Sick/TIG inverter with the problem

    Hello gang. Several years ego, on garage sale, I bought cheap (Chinese) no name welding inverter. I used it only for stick welding until now and it si was OK considering all above. Finally I hooked up argon cylinder, changed electrode polarity and nothing happened. Here is what I have so...
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    LF: Model Engineer & Workshop 2001 Autocollimator project.

    Folks. I am collaborating on autocollimator project - it might be interesting and useful piece of equipment and I am looking for MEW magazines from 2001 where it was covered. Wondering if somebody here has magazines from this year ?
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    Tips/Techniques Measuring flatness of the surface with laser and webcam

    Hello gang. What do you think about this ? Is this a good alternative to expensive camelback straight edge? The guy have several videos about the same - he is complcating things a bit as he progresses but, at the end he comes back to original setup, rather simple .
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    Junk yard haul

    I had to dump old stove and some steel, so made a trip to the junk yard. Here are some goodies Franken cart/dolly/lift - I was looking for quite some time for that type of shop cart/lift. This one is in poor shape - bended from lifting overweigh rusted, jammed. But it has a potential :)...
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    Calculate proper radius for scalloping with boring head

    Hello team. How would you calculate/adjust radius on boring head for cleaning up this scallop (or half moon or crescend) ? I created initial rough shape with grinder, now need to make it conforming to the corresponding part. It would be welded on - so no extreme precision is needed, but...
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    Shop Table top crane

    Hello gang. I am getting into conditions when lifting heavy items is a real pain for my back. I was looking trough internet for some ideas and inspirations and there are few youtube folks that have build "sky hook crane". Tubalcane has several videos with great explanations of his ideas and...
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    Disassembled old surface grinder REID No 2-i Free

    For Ottawians and vicinities - I have old completely disassembled surface grinder up for grabs. Probably worth only as a scrap, but if somebody courageous enough to spend some time on it - take it. Don't tell me that it is elegant way to get rid of junk - I have my own trailer and can...
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