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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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    Solitary Bee House

    So it beegins...
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    Made in/shop in Canada options - Links or recommendations only!

    Take WD Plastics off the list. Total loss after a fire. During COVID they were so busy building sneeze guards that I heard they were getting business from as far as Ontario. Great family owned business. Very unfortunate. https://www.wdplastics.com/
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    Shoulder check

    @SomeGuy Don't won't to go off track;) and turn this into a Porsche hugging thread but I have to say that if I could choose one Porsche to own it would be a white '86 944. Something about the style I find very appealing. Apparently it's an exceptionally high maintenance Porsche but I'll bet...
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    Shoulder check

    Oh, I wasn't passing judgement. Your comment and the fact it was a Porsche brought back that memory and I thought I'd share.
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    Tips/Techniques New head for a TAIG

    @Arbutus A machinist's version of pimpin' yo' mill. Very inspiring.
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    Shoulder check

    Years ago the family and I were driving back from the lake along with the rest of Saskatchewan on a late Sunday afternoon. The highway at that time was single lane. In the rear view mirror I could see someone in a sports car darting in and out of the oncoming lane as they were trying to move...
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    Shoulder check

    I worked with a gentleman from Nigeria. After he returned from a trip back home I asked what some of the differences were between there and here. One example he gave was when he got back home he had to adjust to the aggressive and chaotic approach to driving where pedestrians risk their lives...
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    Shoulder check

    My son's 2010 Mazda 6 has the detectors, too. Maybe the tech has improved? On occasion he gets a false alert when near an object like a concrete boulevard. I was with him on one such occasion where he was switching lanes and assumed the nearby concrete boulevard that he was getting closer to...
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    Shoulder check

    Shoulder checking and turn signals are driving 101 in my opinion. Taught all three of my kids how to drive in preparation for their driver's license exams and you need to do both to pass. After that, time will tell if you are a good driver or not. So far, only one accident on an icy road...
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    Shop Tools to keep out in the open?

    I put this bucket of tools together years ago. Has a bunch of tools that I reach for fairly often. Seemed like a good idea by itself until you fill it with tools and need to get to the other side. Then I built the rotating base. Now all the tools are accessible at all times.
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