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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!

Hello from Peterborough Ontario

C

Chip Maker

Super User
Newbie to the forum. I recently stumbled across this site and decided to join up as I may be able to contribute and/or network with fellow hobbyists. I'm a retired tool and die maker with over forty years of varied metal industry experience. Two thirds of my career was spent in new tooling, building stamping dies. I apprenticed in a small production machine shop before moving to a precision aerospace machine shop. We contributed to both Canada Arms. I was in the trade early enough that cnc was just starting out. Lots of hands on work experience and form grinding before 3d machining or wirecutting was commonplace.

I currently have a Bridgeport knee mill as well as a Southbend 9 and just recently picked up a barn find Taiwan 10-24 lathe, which I'll make a post about with pictures in the near future as it is quite an interesting story and should be on American Pickers. I'm presently restoring a sixties muscle car that I've owned since I was a kid and the majority of my metal projects of late have been jigs and fixtures related to the car. It's funny how what I took for granted while working (free metal, cutters, inserts and fasteners) is now pricey and not as readily available logistically.

Cheers
 
Welcome to the forum. We love pics!


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Hey Chip Maker, that’s pretty cool. I remember when I saw the first arm up there with the big “Canada” on the side. Boy, what a proud moment that was.

Welcome.

-frank
 
Welcome from Calgary. Your experience will be a great asset to the forum.

P.S. We love pics :)
 
Another islander (west coast) welcome. You had my attention at muscle car! My toy for many years was a 1965 Corvair with a mid mounted 327/325hp, that really surprised alot of the muscle cars;).
 
Welcome, looking forward to the pictures and information that you can provide.
 
I used to suprise muscle cars with my 1969 Alfa 1750GTV in the early 70's. High lift cams on an already well tuned performance engine. And I didn't have to slow for the corners :-) (The car is still alive and well in the Bolton area somewhere)
 
58 Chevy 4 door for me. 327 offenhauser manifold with a holly 650 spreadbore, dual point dist, crane cam, racing clutch powering a 3 speed Muncie.
 
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