Which mill did you order?
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Which mill did you order?
This is easier said than done. Anyone can copy it and make it available to non-members.
Members only doesn't amount to much. Anyone can become a member at the drop of hat. Paid member might make a difference.
Not sure this helps as much as we would like. Web crawlers take snap shots of time and record changes. Nonetheless, it is a step forward to delete such things.
As far as I know, search engines and the like cannot access PM's. So perhaps the solution to the meet & greet issue is a PM to all attendees.
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Here in Ontario, near Toronto
gmihovics
Garrett
I don't know how I missed this thread! I'm one of the London folks @Susquatch mentioned earlier.
little ol' e
Jus' a hobby guy
Just noticed this thread. Welcome to all Ontario members near and far.
How many members in Ontario here are still active on the forum? Does anyone know?
I'm just outside Mount Forest and happy to share.
5 days a week for me is CNC mill and lathe. Manual machinist on weekends and some evenings throughout the spring summer and fall until retirement.
If other members would like to borrow, buy, sell, trade materials, tooling etc. I would be up for that to help others. I normally buy endmills, taps, and carbide drills in 10+ quantities for the discounts when busy.
I also keep most scrap and out of tolerance parts for the local metal art guys into welding as well.
How many members in Ontario here are still active on the forum? Does anyone know?
I'm just outside Mount Forest and happy to share.
5 days a week for me is CNC mill and lathe. Manual machinist on weekends and some evenings throughout the spring summer and fall until retirement.
If other members would like to borrow, buy, sell, trade materials, tooling etc. I would be up for that to help others. I normally buy endmills, taps, and carbide drills in 10+ quantities for the discounts when busy.
I also keep most scrap and out of tolerance parts for the local metal art guys into welding as well.
Canadium
Ian
There's no official count of Ontario members as far as I know. There was talk at one point of creating a map online but as I recall it got bogged down in a debate about privacy concerns.
It might be interesting to try though.
It should not take forever to go through the membership list and locate everyone who was willing to admit living in Ontario and perhaps even sort them by last visit. It won't be perfect but prolly better than nothing.
I can't do it right now, but if nobody tackles it between now and whenever I can, I'll see what I can do. Maybe even dump the membership to a spreadsheet and include the other provinces.
Yes, I remember the privacy concerns in that discussion. As I recall nobody was overly concerned about using the first 3 letters of their postal code.
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First three letters is good.
If you cannot list the village that is closest to you . . . how do you expect to be invited to meet any other members that are closeby. I have been in touch with a few that I can meet up with because my work allows me to travel much of Central Ontario and the GTA. If we can form lists by county, it could help to form more ‘local’ meetings and create project assistance.
Canadium
Ian
We'll just have to try to pull up the slack ourselves! I loved his enthusiasm, his willingness to help, and his positive outlook. "Everything is an adventure" It was contagious!