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My fist post
This is a Gingery lathe I built about 20 years ago
I pretty much built the whole thing with minimum departures from the book. I used the furnace setup as described in the "Charcoal Foundry" book (1st in the "Build Your Own Metalworking Shop From Scrap" series). I think there are 20 or so castings here. You can see by the tailstock that I didnt quite finish it. Note the belt wheels on the headstock, the were cast then machined on the lathe
this shows the line boring operation on the headstock
This shows the line boring operation on the tailstock... lesson learned of referencing the head and tail to the same ways
This shows the cross slide assembly. When I started out I tried Gingery's blue ink and scraper method to flatten the mating surfaces. This method made a colossal mess ! I chickened out and used a friend's Rong Fu mill to flatten everthing out
Does the Gingery lathe work ? Absolutely ! Above shows some test cuts on a mild steel bar...
This is an assortment of mandrels, arbors, and boring bars I made in the course of the project.
I learned a LOT in the course of this project.
Being from Texas I wasnt exposed to a lot of heavy industry growing up, so the concept of the foundry were very cool to learn (and suprisingly easy to implement)
Ill never forget how even on a 100 degree day I could definitely feel the heat from a pot of molten aluminum 5 feet away
I probably would have gone further with the project but the issues of putting a MT1 taper on the tailstock were not very straightforward. Plus, around that time I bought a Birmingham 14 x 40 lathe and all the goodies
It sits in my office now... a great conversational prop with the other engineers
This is a Gingery lathe I built about 20 years ago
I pretty much built the whole thing with minimum departures from the book. I used the furnace setup as described in the "Charcoal Foundry" book (1st in the "Build Your Own Metalworking Shop From Scrap" series). I think there are 20 or so castings here. You can see by the tailstock that I didnt quite finish it. Note the belt wheels on the headstock, the were cast then machined on the lathe
this shows the line boring operation on the headstock
This shows the line boring operation on the tailstock... lesson learned of referencing the head and tail to the same ways
This shows the cross slide assembly. When I started out I tried Gingery's blue ink and scraper method to flatten the mating surfaces. This method made a colossal mess ! I chickened out and used a friend's Rong Fu mill to flatten everthing out
Does the Gingery lathe work ? Absolutely ! Above shows some test cuts on a mild steel bar...
This is an assortment of mandrels, arbors, and boring bars I made in the course of the project.
I learned a LOT in the course of this project.
Being from Texas I wasnt exposed to a lot of heavy industry growing up, so the concept of the foundry were very cool to learn (and suprisingly easy to implement)
Ill never forget how even on a 100 degree day I could definitely feel the heat from a pot of molten aluminum 5 feet away
I probably would have gone further with the project but the issues of putting a MT1 taper on the tailstock were not very straightforward. Plus, around that time I bought a Birmingham 14 x 40 lathe and all the goodies
It sits in my office now... a great conversational prop with the other engineers