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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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    Introduction for Dave Hylands from Peachland, BC

    Welcome Dave from Peachland. Great to see a new member here. I look forward to meeting and get together. Grant from Peachland
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    New here from Anmore B.C.

    Welcome from Peachland B.C. Grant
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    Jswain's active projects

    I recently picked up the same Vevor for my RF45 and have been trying to figure how to install it. Great information from this site. The only thing I think I will do is weld an extension on the lead screw, a couple of inches long on what will now be the motor end or Right side looking at the...
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    Tips/Techniques Greetings from Okanagan

    Good idea the big city guys can pull it of so we should be able to get something going in the valley.
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    Tips/Techniques Greetings from Okanagan

    Welcome neighbor from Peachland, as you know it is the home of our famous Ogopogo. Lots of folks here to help you out. Look forward to meeting you sometime. Grant
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    Spindle Bearing Oil

    I have the same machine and expect to clean it up and paint it in the near future. Were you able to find the right color or a close match? Great machine all the South Bend parts seem to interchange. Grant
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    Okanagan here

    Welcome neighbor, hope to meet you some day, welcome aboard. Grant from Peachland B.C.
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    CA-BC Source for light angle iron free

    I am building a stand on casters for my new to me Kennedy tool box. I remembered where i got the material for free. The stores that sell motorized,scooters, wheel chairs etc. often have the frames that those were packed in and have no way to get rid of it. A shop not far from me advertised for...
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    Endmills with threaded shanks

    Good point. I was wondering just how accurate it would be. Thanks for the input. Grant
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    Endmills with threaded shanks

    Thanks for all the info. My collets are bored all the way so the threaded endmill shanks will go all the way in to the cutter portion, so I will use them that way. I also have quite a few metric, most of which will not fit my collets very well, so I may try to turn the shanks down to a nominal...
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