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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!

gents,

simmons

simmons

Brand New Member
(and ladies) this is a good thing, I'm finding less hobby machinists out there randomly, so being all in one spot helps.
I'm a small time self-employed fabricator, doing mostly prototypes and small-runs - enjoy TIG. (wire feed the big stuff)
I may regret saying this later, but I like to help where going through the front door gets cost prohibitive for us small guys. Too often a cool idea doesn't get off the ground because you don't have a "friend", so if you need a quick weld I can be that friend.
 
There are no ladies on this form yet. I have worked and gone to school with around a dozen femal machinists but I am yet to meet one who independently manufactures parts for entertainment purposes. Hmm there must be some but for now I'd say men outnumber the girls 32-0. Proto space could do a ladies night eh
 
Welcome Simmons & thanks for the nice gesture. It will be good to have some specialty welding know-how amongst us. I took an intro-welding (oxy-acetylene) night class at SAIT a long time ago. They also let us play on a TIG briefly, I suspect as an enticement to take more courses. My welds were, uhm.. interesting. That gave me newly elevated appreciation for skills involved!
 
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