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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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    New to me Ammco 7" Metal shaper

    NOPE!! not even gonna go close to those books...every time I research something it become an obsession to own something I dont need
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    Is There A Local SS Compression Spring Source (only need half dozen)

    Brownell's Gunsmith Supplies always has a very good selection of piano wire type spring stock to make any size or strength spring you could want.
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    New to me Ammco 7" Metal shaper

    This has baffled me since this conversation started...how does a mechanically linked rotational mechanism change speeds from one way to another????
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    Welcome to Westwood Metalworks, What is he building in there?

    I had one "burp" with molten lead one time....dont want another...tinsel fairy spread silver strings everywhere, luckily none on me!!
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    Old stuff

    Bandit is correct about the muzzle loading aspect of paper cartridges but they were also used in the first cap fired breach loaders as well without pouring the powder first. They were inserted whole, they used nitrite soaked paper that the primer flash burned thru to ignite powder, then the...
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    iPhone to Android - phone recommendations?

    I spent hours on the road listening to 1/2 the conversations we could "trap" with those old Xj's....some were very very interesting when you got a man that's been in the bush all winter at a jobsite and his wife is begging him to come home...some of those wives could use every wile and describe...
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    Old stuff

    Awesome photography of equally awesome displays Chicken I recognize one vista photo's of the hill named "Little Round Top" & the piece of ground that "Pickets Charge" crossed and were anialated in doing so by the artillery we see in the other photos. That day broke the back of the...
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    iPhone to Android - phone recommendations?

    ha aha ya i had a couple or 3 bag phones when they first came out and they were a vast improvement over the old "XJ phones" we first had for mobiles....anybody that bitches over ANY of the new breeds has never had the pleasure of trying to negotiate the frustrations of those Xj's, you had to...
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    Product Cordless tools

    man oh man i feel your pain...I used to try to use a hole saw to cut holes for new gauges and placing them correctly in an existing cluster of gauges already there drove me nuts....you see & notice your few thou f##$k up every time you scan those gauges
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    Garage sales season

    Yes, a few bad reviews on interweb on the Chinese knock-offs that discount toolers are selling with Vermont labeling....my set is clearly laser engraved "Made in USA
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