I did make a few changes to mine, the main change I made was to the head stock, I gingeery a 2nd one but beefed it up so I could put some tapered spindle bearings in it I had from a VW Bug I have lots of old VW Bug parts I bored gingerj head to take the bearing races and installed them.ĭoes this POSness extend and to what degree to the other Gingery projects ie. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: I made me a Gingery lathe, it’s almost been 10 years now since starting it, I have it in working condition, but I have yet to completely finish it, I got a real latheI haven’t finished the tail stock yet. My woodshop was already fairly well equipped and I had the experience of building a wood lathe behind me, so I felt that I was up for the challenge of building some metalworking equipment. I am going to break my experience into sections as well.ĬAVIA COBAYA PDF Gingery-style homemade metal lathe buildsĮxcept that you wouldn’t have the experience of making your own. The hobbyist starts by constructing a small foundry capable of melting silicon - aluminum and zinc alloys from recycled automotive parts. I think that you can “beef” up the patterns for aluminum to be “ok” but the lzthe may be infesable if not impossible. The disadvantage is higher friction and a lower lifespan, but for the first-just get a slightly lxthe motor. The series provided just enough detail, drawings, and advice to allow the hobbyist to fill in the rest. So I started looking around on the Internet and was pricing lathes. Retrieved from ” https: Lionel Oliver II, on the other hand, whose amateur sandcrabbing website Backyard Metal Casting is probably the single greatest online resource for those interested in small home foundry work, has not only made a meaningful start, but gotten most of the way through the build. American inventors American technology writers births deaths American scientist stubs. The Gingery books and, really, most DIY books from that era are: Get the Magazine Make: Make sure the bed and ways mate correctly before bolting. Subscribe to Make Magazine Today! The Best Gingery Lathe Video Series To Date I had neither a lathe nor a way to cast aluminum.
I watched all his videos many times.Īugust Learn how and when to remove this template message. ive been a member here for some time mostly just reading and now this section has been added i may be able to contribute. The general agreement here is that the gingery lathe is a POS, and that you should only build one for practice, not for actually using it. You can find them at ) As I read this book written by Gingery, I noticed that the molds were machined with a lathe and made from aluminum.
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