Time and Location

  • Tuesday, January 9, 2018 7pm
  • Location: Saskatoon TechWorks, 412 44th St E
  • Previous meeting minutes (please read ahead of time)
Agenda
  • Attendance: 11 members (Quorum)
  • Regular items
  • Equipment, Safety and the Space
    • Check fire extinguishers
    • Quick Clean
    • Equipment check
  • Previous meeting minutes
    • Accepted as read unanimously
  • New Membership
    • Paul Titman
      • no objections
  • Finances
    • James read a summary of the finances
    • Profit of $3392.83
    • Expenses of $3063.55
    • Net Income of $80.95
    • Could we cover our liabilities? Yes
    • Are our accounts being taken care of promptly? Yes
    • We are in the black!
  • Social events / group projects
    • Small talk / Show and Tell
      • Jan 23 - Albert La TinkerCAD
    • Future Workshops / events
      • Jan 13 - Soap Making
      • Feb 15 - Fusion 360
      • Feb 17 - Winter Social
      • Electronics/Arduino
      • May 26 - MakerFaire - Prairie Exhibition - Hall C
        • Volunteers
          • setup/takedown
          • gets a pass to go check out the rest of the faire
        • Projects
          • Call for projects, bring anything cool you have worked on
        • Al - Mech Collab project
        • Al/Leah - Music box project
        • Kinect Sandbox
        • Battle Bots
          • Lighter/more robust bots
          • Looking for volunteers to run
        • Might be a need for more booths to be filled
          • Anyone who is willing to have their own booth is encouraged to let us know
      • June 2 - Open House (Post MakerFaire)
      • Sheet on vendonator for suggestions on on workshops and past workshops that have been done at the space
    • Outside Collaborations
      • SPL - haven't heard and more, might have fallen through. Currently in limbo
  • Acknowledgements
    • Rylan for more tools and equipment improvement
    • Bun-Bun and Scott for setting up space heaters when furnace quit
    • Members who donated towards MakerFaire sponsorship
      • Scott, Roger, Andrew, James, John, David, Quentin, Verne, Peter, Albert
    • Scott for setting up an invoice system for the store
    • James for counting $48 in change
  • New business
    • Door propping
      • Do not leave door open longer than absolutely necessary
      • Lets cold air in, heat out
      • Security concern members when members are not in the clean room/library and do not notice when unwelcome visitors come in
      • Al got a door bell for when members are expecting visitors instead of needing to leave the door open
    • Reminder - do not leave equipment unattended
      • Laser cutters, 3D Printers, lathe, etc. are dangerous machines and can cause damage to the space or injury/death to operators
      • Turn off when finished
    • Rylan stuff
      • Mounted fire extinguisher in hall way up stairs
      • Printed off logo for Nathan and placed it up stairs - by the lights that he is sponsoring the community green screen space with.
      • Built movable tailstock, as part of rotary attachment, and submitted a web site write up.
        • Created wiring harness for Goliath to use rotary attachment
        • Will need training to use
        • Issues with rapid Zs - need new profile for when using the rotary
      • Open s cad script for calculating steps per inch hack for any circumference
      • Z rapid and safe z setting in aspire, don't know how to change the go to zero button height in mock 3
      • Brought a metal trolley for the welder , its easy to roll outside and its metal so it wont start on fire like the table
      • Brought welding stuff, angle magnets, hammer, ground magnet, extra wire
      • Found lathe with stripped t bolts….. reminder when you break the lathe if you not sure how to fix it leave a sticky note.. the lathe can often fix its self.
        • Made new t-bolts for the lathe and made an extra set.
        • Made a power cross feed drill attachment for the lathe
        • Made tiny drill bit tool for lathe
      • Vice maintenance:
        • Lathed a collar so that the handle no longer jams against the body of the vice
        • Straightened out a bent pin ( rotation movement clamp)
        • Tightened mounting bolts
        • Tightened bolt loading acme nut ( now the vise isn't sloppy and loose)
        • Greased all the ways and the acme thread
        • Made a power feed attachment so you can move the vise with a drill
      • Helped the land lord Jeff with the neighbors door, and talked to him about the kiln - he said as long as its to code and we pay for the electrical work we can do it
      • Forge - landlord said yes as long as its only out side we can do it ( then Jeff told me about how he has cast a brass fish he caught)
      • Welding table out side - Jeff said Yes to this and offered to bring his metal welding table. He did bring it its out side and need legs
      • Offered to install window that land lord brought
      • Brought a new tool wind up spring maker
      • Jared notified me that the table saw fence was loose
        • Upon investigation i found that it was bent and missing a bolt
        • Bought a new bolt kit, replaced bolt
        • Strengthen out bent part of fence .. now the fence is good
      • Jared notified that the miter saw was not cutting 90 when set to 90 adjusted it and now its cutting square. Note Miter saw is very dull
      • Made up a computer fan and pipe to blow warm air on frozen pipes in kim space ( freeing up our vacuum )
      • Found the drill press vise acme thread to be bent… me an bob straightened it and cleaned up the ways and added a missing bolt to the vise works good again
        • After, found a better vice covered and device and put that one in place
      • Printed off sign up papers for workshops list and suggested courses
    • Reminder to contact thespace@sktechworks.ca about equipment that is broken or needs maintenance
      • Please leave a note to tell others not to use the equipment
      • If you are planning to do a lot of cutting, purchase a blade appropriate for what you are doing
  • Next Meeting - February 13, 2018
  • AGM - March 13, 2018
  • Equipment, Safety and the Space
    • Check fire extinguishers
    • Quick Clean
    • Equipment check
    • Purgatory box
  • Motion to adjourn accepted unanimously
meeting/january_09_2018.txt · Last modified: 2018/02/14 03:11 by andrew
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