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  • Several Regions have held meetups already, but others are being planned or are evaluating the interest. The Calgary Area Meetup is set for Saturday July 12th at 10am. The signup thread is 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!

Cutting HSS Lathe Bit Stock

Fingerprints. Despite what you may have seen on TV, fingerprints are far from unique. Especially for only a single digit and with partials.

I worked on a security sensitive project involving finger print readers, and we concluded that the readings would collide for about 1 in 500 people of the same race. We decided to insist on a 5 finger match. More sensitive readers probably reduce the collisions, but ink isn't very precise

And anecdotally, my son can open my wife's phone with his thumb matching her thumbprint. It is an Apple product ;)


Anyway, as far as I know, a zip disk is an abrasive wheel. Instead of 'cutting' it off, you might as well keep grinding ;)

HSS is a family of alloys. Not every one the same. IIRC HSS was developed due to a lack of Tungsten when Molybdenum had to be substituted due to shortages during one of the wars. There are at least 10 different standard grades. And who knows how many non-standard ones. Standard alloying agents include Cr, Mo, W, V, Co, Mn, Si and probably more - along with the Iron & Carbon that makes it steel
 
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