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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!

Newb from Ontario

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Boltgun

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Hi all!

Boltgun here...board name, real name is Mark. I am a novice machiner budding late in life...retired but got lots of years left in me. Here to learn and hopefully buy machines at some point.

Regards
Boltgun
 
Welcome to the group. I’m in Ancaster and Lake of Bays (Summer). Are you just starting in this abyss or have you been at it a while? Are you a South Bend or Atlas guy or something more larger? Come on Mark..... give us a bit of the background.

Cheers

Derek


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Derek,

I am retired Law Enforcement. Have been into shooting since I was 14 and as part of my LE background, I was an armorer and oversaw the armorer work for my agency. It developed into a desire to do gunsmithing which has further developed into metal working period. My biggest issue is splitting funds between hobbies - LOL. I have a king lathe 12x36. I haven't used it yet. Plan on getting it set up shortly. I would love to get my hands on a BP clone in the 9x42 size. I also wanna get into knife making and welding....champagne taste on a beer man's salary.

Mark
 
You are amongst friends. We are all in this to varying degrees. I’m in well over my head. I started out about 5 years ago “tooling up”. I’m in aviation and as such generally have some excess time to devote to learning machining; moreso now. I have an Atlas 10F lathe but a buddy of mine has a King (similar size to yours) and he loves it. I’d like bigger but for the time being I am restricted by space, but not forever. I have a small knee mill (vertical) a 7x32 and I love it. Does everything I ask. A small shaper and horizontal mill round out the machines with a 6x18 surface grinder in the mother in laws garage awaiting some TLC. Please keep in touch..... we’re all in this together. Cheers


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