• Scam Alert. Members are reminded to NOT send money to buy anything. Don't buy things remote and have it shipped - go get it yourself, pay in person, and take your equipment with you. Scammers have burned people on this forum. Urgency, secrecy, excuses, selling for friend, newish members, FUD, are RED FLAGS. A video conference call is not adequate assurance. Face to face interactions are required. Please report suspicions to the forum admins. Stay Safe - anyone can get scammed.
  • 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!

Howdy from southern Alberta!

YotaBota said:
Welcome from Vancouver Island.
The government doesn't call them hammers, they are "Multi Directional Impact Generators" and cost $800 buck a pop, or that's what they cost in 1989.
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Thx, Mike. M-DIG's. Gonna hafta remember that.

Sooke, huh? Stayed at Sooke Campground & visited Sooke Brewery the last two summers. Our youngest & I hiked the JdF trail. Tough slog, but beautiful.
 
Wanted to send out a great, big, fat thank you to @DPittman for welcoming me into his shop this afternoon. Stopped by for a 2-1/2 hour visit, introduced ourselves, chewed the fat, talked gear & equipment (drooled over his mill, lathe DRO, tailstock digital caliper), families, politics, etc., etc., etc. Good time!
 
JustaDB said:
Wanted to send out a great, big, fat thank you to @DPittman for welcoming me into his shop this afternoon. Stopped by for a 2-1/2 hour visit, introduced ourselves, chewed the fat, talked gear & equipment (drooled over his mill, lathe DRO, tailstock digital caliper), families, politics, etc., etc., etc. Good time!
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It was a pleasure! I look forward to another face to face session some day.
 
Couple days back I got my one year warning.

Wanted to say thanks for a great first year to all the low-lifes, riff-raff, bloodsuckers, spenders-of-other-peoples-money and other assorted ne'er do wells on the site. You all suck. You know who you are. Yes, you, over there. And especially you, in the back corner... :p

I've had the pleasure of meeting a few folk, learned lots, got some hands-on, spent far more money than I could afford & look forward to much of the same this next year. I've made progress on my tooling & metrology, now I need to start sourcing the materials to start chewing away at my ever growing list of projects. As a partial list & in no particular order, VFD's for the lathe & mill, DRO's for the same, drawbar for the lathe, rear speaker grills for the Hawg, flycutter, possibly a boring head, stepper motor for the rotary table (really excited about that one!), tailstock extension for the lathe, drip oilers for the lathe, and on and on and on...

I especially want to thank those I have been in personal contact with, either in person, or via phone, text or email. The information & insight you have shared has been particularly helpful.

Thx again, & look forward to the next year.
 
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