Saskatoon Techworks Meeting Minutes
— Time and Location —
- Tuesday, November 12, 2019 7pm
- Location: Saskatoon TechWorks, 412 44th St E
Minutes
- Attendance: 10 (Quorum)
- Regular Items
- Equipment, Safety and the Space
- Check fire extinguishers
- Quick Clean
- Equipment check
- Previous meeting minutes
- October 8, 2019
- New Members
- Dirk Stonehouse
- No objections
- Exiting members
- Devin Stus
- Finances
- Gross profit: $3,524.26
- Ordinary expenses: $3,236.26
- Shaw bill was missed for a couple months, all paid now which makes up the higher than normal expenses
- Net income: $287.97
- Liabilities: $1,511.35
- Could we cover our liabilities? Yes
- Are our accounts being taken care of promptly? Yes
- We are in the black!
- 56 full and 2 associate members
- Social events / group projects
- Small talk / Show and Tell
- November 26
- Future Workshops / events
- Lathe training
- Newsletter sign up - talk to Mena
- workshops
- events
- projects
- upcoming info
- Old Business
- Utilizing existing space
- Taylor working on reorganising dirty room
- following purgatory, equipment will be moved around
- Equipment repairs
- Laser
- same as last month
- Torban has a tube coming, few weeks away yet.
- Planer tuned and ready to use
- rules will be posted on planer
- refer to manual for any specifics
- only go deeper by 1/4 turn per pass (1/64)
- Only metal and soil free wood, metal (nails) and small pebbles will destroy the blade
- Only real wood, no laminates/MDF/plastics/etc
- Expanding into front (Michelle's) area
- lease negotiations still ongoing
- hoping to firm up in next couple weeks
- To Do List
- remove from list
- driver bits removed, John purchased
- Add to list
- nothing to add
- assign from list
- nothing to assign
- if a problem is found with the facilities please contact the board
- thespace@sktechworks.ca
- New business
- printer toner may be causing issues with print quality
- to get genuine toner cost $550+
- local place is $330 and they give a guarantee
- Motion to budget $370 for toner, pending further investigation into the printer to determine the toner is the cause, passed unanimously
- looking into providing a space for other clubs/groups to host workshops
- if you know of a group looking to do this direct them to the board at thespace@sktechworks.ca
- Open Floor
- Goliath was not cutting circles as circles. Scott investigated and found a coupler was completely loose. It is all good to go again.
- The laser was throwing water error consistently. Scott investigated and it was the controller losing connection to wifi and rebooting. Scott updated the code to wait for 5 consecutive fails before trying to reboot.
- Someone was in here and struggling to get out. The door latch is catching again. If anyone knows a good locksmith to take a look please email thespace.
- The pot on the laser is now working!
- Acknowledgements
- Scott for continuing to be a super star with the expansion negotiations
- Torban for making the sign before Taylor
- Brent made a manual for the laser
- Tyler for aligning the mirrors on the laser
- Next Meeting - December 10, 2019
- Motion to adjourn accepted unanimously
- Purgatory box