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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!

Another new old one:

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patuca

New Member
Hi All:

Thanks for letting me join up. I've always had an interest in metal-working and always had a small shop, mostly to support my other hobbies (Amateur radio VE7DLU, 4x4's, old motorcycles, photography etc.). I've been retired for many years from the mine-engineering business and during my early years I worked in a small department doing scientific research in the "Rock-Mechanics" field, spending most of my time in the department's machine shop building specialized measuring equipment.

These days my shop is mostly Asian born equipment with modifications and most of the projects are simple repairs of small mechanical items (bushings, shafts, switches, (ham radio repairs), motorcycle parts and photography equipment repairs.

Making gadgets and tools that nobody has a use for is fun too.

I'm looking forward to joining and entering the discussions.

patuca in Cranbrook.
 
Welcome from a ex-Cranbrookonian. Moved there in 1975 as a high schooler, stayed for quite a few years then got older (notice I didn't say grew up) and then moved around a lot. Now I'm an Islander west coast wuss.
This is a pretty diverse group so you should fit right in. Enjoy.
 
Thanks for welcome guys....it's been a while since I belonged to a machining forum and I've been missing the ability to ask for advice and have a look at some interesting projects. Currently I don't have much going except keeping my vehicles in one piece. Lately I've been drawing some sketches of controlling the feed on my 4x6 bandsaw and I have an idea for a low-profile rotary-table that I could make use of on my little micro-mill.

But for now, I'll just track along and see where I fit in.

thanks Guys,

patuca (mike)
 
Hey @patuca ask away for anything!!! I have fixed/worked on everything from the oil spot on your driveway to large machines and the guys here can pretty much fill in ALL the missing pieces
If you need vehicle help - let us know- I have 3 boys and myself trying to fix things “outside” the system
 
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