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Ontario meetup, April 6
- Thread starter CWret
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I’m open that weekend and plan on attending
I went to Modern Tool on Friday and meet with Sie. The meetup agenda is starting to take shape. It’s going to be really interesting. Sie offered tables for a swap meet display area. He is also getting Modern Tool to supply a couple of items for door prizes. I mentioned that we wanted to set up a BBQ for lunch and he said OK plus Modern would supply the drinks.
FYI: On the way home I stopped in at Accusize and picked up a big stack of their 2024 tool catalogues. Accusize is also going to supply a door prize.
FYI: On the way home I stopped in at Accusize and picked up a big stack of their 2024 tool catalogues. Accusize is also going to supply a door prize.
Dan Dubeau
Ultra Member
Swap meet sounds great. I'll make sure to bring some cash, and a box of surplus to my needs stuff.
Any chance Sie could put in a good word for a plant tour of their industrial park neighbors Acushnet? Asking for a friend......
Any chance Sie could put in a good word for a plant tour of their industrial park neighbors Acushnet? Asking for a friend......
140mower
Don
They don't need the wheels to fly......
Too bad the events don’t line up - Murphy’s Law would expect that.
Kinda like the sun and moon but that alignment misses by a couple of days too.
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NEW LOCATION FOR APRIL 6 MEETUP
Our Ontario April 6th meetup has a new location. Unfortunately Modern Tool has changed their mind about how we would be allowed to use their facilities. They now only want us in their building to watch them demonstrate machines. All other meetup activities would be in their parking lot. We were forced to find a new location for the meetup. Although the location has changed, the date, time, and general format will proceed as planned.
Our meetup will now be at Lighting Nelson & Garrett Inc. They are located in Etobicoke (western Toronto) at 106 Birmingham St.
Stuart Samuel, a Forum Premium Member and an employee of Lighting Nelson & Garrett, asked one of the owners if they would host our meetup and he graciously and without hesitation agreed. On behalf of CHMW, thank you very much to both Stuart and Lighting Nelson & Garrett for helping us out on such short notice.
I toured their facility yesterday, it was very interesting and I saw lots of unexpected and unique things including unusual uses of metal working equipment. Our meetup on April 6 will start with a tour of their 14,000 sq ft manufacturing shop. As part of the tour, one of the owners of Lighting Nelson & Garrett, Chris Nelson, will demonstrate metal lathe spinning (also called spin forming).
Their shop has a wide variety of projects underway at any one time. Here’s a few pictures of some of the interesting things I saw while at their factory / shop.
Pictures above and below are LED lights they designed and are manufacturing for a large Toronto church. Aluminum fabrication and then to their paint booth.
Below are church post lanterns rebuilt for a Toronto condominium:
Below is a large metal band saw and a 115rpm cold cut saw
An unusual angled bench vise
45 ton press and a 10ft shear
One of their several manual lathes and a heating oven to form glass:
Presently they are working on restoration and or repairing light fixtures from our Ottawa Parliament buildings.
Next pictures are of the the cast aluminum, wrought iron and bronze light that is suspended in the Peace Tower, Centre Block, Circa 1930
the main frame:
One of many grill pieces that will be repaired and attached to the main frame
the piece I’m touching, above, is being reproduced and is in the milling vise in the next two pics:
I will be getting out more information about the meetup but for now I wanted everyone to know about the sudden changed location. Also I plan to PM members that I have on my list of attendees or possibly attendees. If you now will attend or now cannot attend please RSVP with a PM.
I am now even more enthusiastic about the meetup. I think it will be a great event.
I most certainly appreciate the help from Stuart and Lighting Nelson & Garrett Inc. Thanks you.
www.lightingnag.com
Our Ontario April 6th meetup has a new location. Unfortunately Modern Tool has changed their mind about how we would be allowed to use their facilities. They now only want us in their building to watch them demonstrate machines. All other meetup activities would be in their parking lot. We were forced to find a new location for the meetup. Although the location has changed, the date, time, and general format will proceed as planned.
Our meetup will now be at Lighting Nelson & Garrett Inc. They are located in Etobicoke (western Toronto) at 106 Birmingham St.
Stuart Samuel, a Forum Premium Member and an employee of Lighting Nelson & Garrett, asked one of the owners if they would host our meetup and he graciously and without hesitation agreed. On behalf of CHMW, thank you very much to both Stuart and Lighting Nelson & Garrett for helping us out on such short notice.
I toured their facility yesterday, it was very interesting and I saw lots of unexpected and unique things including unusual uses of metal working equipment. Our meetup on April 6 will start with a tour of their 14,000 sq ft manufacturing shop. As part of the tour, one of the owners of Lighting Nelson & Garrett, Chris Nelson, will demonstrate metal lathe spinning (also called spin forming).
Their shop has a wide variety of projects underway at any one time. Here’s a few pictures of some of the interesting things I saw while at their factory / shop.
Pictures above and below are LED lights they designed and are manufacturing for a large Toronto church. Aluminum fabrication and then to their paint booth.
Below are church post lanterns rebuilt for a Toronto condominium:
Below is a large metal band saw and a 115rpm cold cut saw
An unusual angled bench vise
45 ton press and a 10ft shear
One of their several manual lathes and a heating oven to form glass:
Presently they are working on restoration and or repairing light fixtures from our Ottawa Parliament buildings.
Next pictures are of the the cast aluminum, wrought iron and bronze light that is suspended in the Peace Tower, Centre Block, Circa 1930
the main frame:
One of many grill pieces that will be repaired and attached to the main frame
the piece I’m touching, above, is being reproduced and is in the milling vise in the next two pics:
I will be getting out more information about the meetup but for now I wanted everyone to know about the sudden changed location. Also I plan to PM members that I have on my list of attendees or possibly attendees. If you now will attend or now cannot attend please RSVP with a PM.
I am now even more enthusiastic about the meetup. I think it will be a great event.
I most certainly appreciate the help from Stuart and Lighting Nelson & Garrett Inc. Thanks you.
custom lighting manufacturer | nelson & garrett
custom lighting fixture manufacturer Lighting Nelson and Garrett, third generation designers and craftsmen of light fixtures in traditional and contemporary styles for commercial, institutional, government, hospitality, church lighting and historical restoration projects.
Dan Dubeau
Ultra Member
PM sent. I should still be able to make it. This new location sounds like a much more interesting location, for me anyway. I've enjoyed Stuart's posts and find that type of work pretty interesting, so I'm looking forward to the tour.
Thanks for all the work in organizing this. I can only imagine how stressfull it's been with all the back and forth, and now the change of venue. I appreciate it.
Thanks for all the work in organizing this. I can only imagine how stressfull it's been with all the back and forth, and now the change of venue. I appreciate it.
While it may not be applicable, forklift is available if anyone’s bringing something heavy. (Up to 3000 lbs, anyway)
Looking forward to meeting folks.
Looking forward to meeting folks.
Just a quick note about the meetup.
At the meetup location there is lots of free parking- even if you have a tall trailer in tow. I’ll be sending all attendees a map to make sure we all park together at the correct parking lot. It’s 300 feet from the front door.
Also - we’ll be providing lunch from a near by 5 star gourmet specialty pizza shop. Vegetarian will be an option.
At the meetup location there is lots of free parking- even if you have a tall trailer in tow. I’ll be sending all attendees a map to make sure we all park together at the correct parking lot. It’s 300 feet from the front door.
Also - we’ll be providing lunch from a near by 5 star gourmet specialty pizza shop. Vegetarian will be an option.
Yesterday I sent out the mtg agenda, parking map (and other info via PM) to all attendees. If you didn't get it or were not on my list - please let me know right here or send me a PM.
We are expecting over 20 attendees and there is lots of room for any members that make a last minute decision to join in.
We are expecting over 20 attendees and there is lots of room for any members that make a last minute decision to join in.