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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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    For sale: Tennesmith Shear and Air Compressor

    A 48" Tennesmith Shear for sale (pickup only) in West Kelowna, BC. In excellent shape and complete with all attachments in a ground level workshop for easy moving access. $1750 Also an air compressor. $600. Misc fittings, hoses, etc are available as well. I don't have a picture of the shear but...
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    Shop Help with pricing

    I’m helping with an estate sale and trying to determine a fair price for a Tennsmith 48" brake and a Tennsmith 48" shear that must be sold as part of the estate. They are probably 52" as they seem to make 36” and 52”. Both are in great shape and can be seen in Kelowna, B.C. I'm in Calgary, but...
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    Making PCB's

    This project has been a long time in the making. I recently built a GRBL CNC controller and last week got a Sherline 5410 mill. This evening I made my very first isolation routed PCB. This first attempt is for an SMD RF pre-amplifier so is only 40mm X 50mm. I'm 90% happy with it and it will only...
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    Deciding on a mill

    Now that my CNC controller is done and working, I'm looking intoa mill I can connect it to. When I started this project it was for isolation routing of printed circuit boards, so accuracy ismy main objective. Question is can anyone tell me how much of a difference ball screws make? Besides to...
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    Home made CNC controller

    I have been at this for a while, but finally finished and tested it tonight. It works well and all I need now is a mill to connect the steppers up to. I built this initially to do isolation milling on PCB's, but since that time I started to think about other projects as well. This is based...
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    Yet another Calgary member...

    My #1 hobby since 1964 is ham radio and building electronic circuits including surface mount stuff. I probably have more invested in surplus electronic test equipment than radios as most of my work is RF. (For perspective, I bought my 6th oscilloscope last week!). I have also done a ton of...
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