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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!

Hello from central Alberta.

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DelusionalMechanic

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I am a mechanic by trade and my machining experience is a single machining class in college in 1986.
Recently I bought an Atlas 10 inch TH54 lathe at an auction. I have been just have a hoot fixing it up and making run smooth. I have allready made a bushing for the tailstock handle on the lathe so my favourite saying is "Lathe, fix thy self."
Still working on figuring out what attachments I need.
Looking forward to gaining wisdom from the huge wealth of knowledge here as I am still cutting my baby teeth, umm er threads. ( no, I haven't cut threads yet but I did see the chart.)
Thanks
 
Welcome from Ontario Farm Country - south of Chatham.

DelusionalMechanic said:
"Lathe, fix thy self."
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I love that "Lathe, fix thyself"!!!!

The next step is making tools for your tools.

Someplace along that journey is threading. I love cutting threads on my lathe! I'm sure you will too! Lots of really cool posts on here about threading on the lathe.
 
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