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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!

Not So Lazy Susan….

GlenG

Glen
I ’ve been looking for a turn table to use when painting projects, but I could never find one that was large or heavy enough, so i decided to build one. To top is 15”x15”x1/4” aluminum and the base is 14”x14”x3/16” steel with a 12” turn table bearing rated for 1000lb. The longest part was drilling and tapping the 120+ 1/4”-20 holes, but using a template for punching and then a drill/tap in my impact driver it actually wasn’t that bad.

Template for centre punching:

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Bottom with bearing:

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Finished:

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And I built an arm to hold a rifle stock that needs clear coat:

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I’m quite happy with the final product.
 
Wow that's fancy, nice work. Puts my dangling wire from the ceiling to hang things to paint to shame.
HaHa for sure. But I have one of those collapsible paint ‘booths’ to keep the garage clean, and it can’t handle the hanging.
 
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