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Also look up if there's any hackerspaces in your area and join their mailing list/forum. I met a number of makerbot, reprap, and CNC owners this way in my city.

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Think Haus in Hamilton, ON, maybe? (OP appears to be from Ontario, judging by previous comments.)

Interesting.. I'm in Ottawa and there's a good community here:

http://artengine.ca/community/modlab-en.php

Yeah I'm from Toronto, I've visited a local hacker space here (hacklab.to) several times. I saw several different 3d printers there over the course of a few visits. They inspired me to go ahead and take the plunge for myself.

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