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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!

Toronto Resources

Each MSM has a different owner/personality so I suggest you visit the Scarborough one in person before making a judgement. e.g. I drive from St Catharines to Stoney Creek as they are much more accomodating. And unless I am only going to look through the offcuts, I place the order the day before so they can schedule my order in with their other work.

The other place I had great success when I was living in Toronto was McKinnon Metals. Again, order ahead of time. They also had a great selection of off cuts.

As for looking at US prices, that is a total waste of time. You can't pick up there, and even when the border was open the drive from Scarborough to Buffalo would cost you more in time and fuel than you would save. Even from St Catharines (45 minutes) it was usually a waste of time and money.

Gerrit
 
Fire pit is good to go!
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The bin has
lots of 3/16 stainless off cuts and some additional thinner steel stuff - all good - if you want some thin expanded metal (stainless) it’s there for you as well. @Chicken lights - I have some great metal for your flag mounts. Will have that ready around Christmas :)
 
Brent H said:
Fire pit is good to go! View attachment 11710
The bin has
lots of 3/16 stainless off cuts and some additional thinner steel stuff - all good - if you want some thin expanded metal (stainless) it’s there for you as well. @Chicken lights - I have some great metal for your flag mounts. Will have that ready around Christmas :)
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Wow. I can't wait to be able to make something like that for myself. I'll take anything you don't want; looking forward to practicing on everything and anything.
 
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