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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!

Greetings from Oakville

Manfred

Manfred

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Refurbishing an EMCO Compact 5 lathe and building a CNC Mill from scratch while fixing up the basement and the deck. Happy to have stumbled on a Canadian Forum.

Hoping to learn a lot and return the favour - as I get better at cutting metal.
 
Manfred said:
Refurbishing an EMCO Compact 5 lathe and building a CNC Mill from scratch while fixing up the basement and the deck. Happy to have stumbled on a Canadian Forum.

Hoping to learn a lot and return the favour - as I get better at cutting metal.
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Welcome from Ontario farmland south of Chatham Manfred!

You will have fun here!
 
trlvn said:
Welcome from...also Oakville!

Where did you get the EMCO? They don't seem to be too common in our neck of the woods.

Craig
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My Emco came all the way from Florida - before shipping became so expensive. The Emco is still stock standard but the mill will be custom with the Z-axis column from an LMS5500 and the table from a M1111. X- and y-axis on 20mm rails. Still trying to figure out the z-axis. Cant decide whether to use the dove tails or rails.

Closed loop steppers running on Linux - but that's still a few pay periods away.
 
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