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| Bernd:
Nice work Gadget. I sort of had to laugh to myself reading that second to last sentence. Using a CNC mill to work on a Gingery Verticle Mill. :D Bernd |
| madjackghengis:
Hi Gadget, I just wanted to add encouragement, I read and re-read all the Gingery books, learned a lot from them, without ever having the chance to complete any of the projects, but taking in all the bringing the old methodology to life today, and enabling us to have anything we want, just a matter of building it. I learned to make moulding sand, and mold a few things, and in learning about the methods he used, shored up my own methods making my work more accurate, in building up from stacked stock material, and the art of hand scraping for accurate fit and finish. I'm really looking forward to seeing this project completed, Dave Gingery was an amazingly wise man who has given us all, as metal hobbyists, new heights to reach for, and served as a good conduit of the old technology, across time, to being useful today, when we missed the opportunity to learn to do it as apprentices. With what he showed in his books, I learned to use a lathe as a mill, a shaper, and get far more out of it, at a time when I didn't have anything but a lathe, than I ever learned in machine shop class in school, all those years ago. I hope to have a working foundry come out of this summer, so I can look at serious casting next winter, and do some things long on the list, but always pushed back. That is a bit amusing, using your cnc mill on the Gingery mill castings. Keep the project going and the progress reports coming!!! Mad Jack :) :nrocks: |
| Gadget:
--- Quote from: Bernd on March 29, 2010, 08:34:25 AM ---Nice work Gadget. I sort of had to laugh to myself reading that second to last sentence. Using a CNC mill to work on a Gingery Verticle Mill. :D Bernd --- End quote --- Actually it is a CNC router Bernd. No where near the muscle as a mill should have. But I agree, it does kind of sound funny. Mad Jack, when you get ready to build your furnace let me know. I have gotten my waste motor/vegetable oil burner pretty much perfected. No propane preheat needed, just light it and go. |
| Gadget:
I made good progress today. I got the spindle slide mounted and fitted today. Nice and tight with no play in any direction with smooth travel up and down. Time to make some more castings now. Dan |
| Brass_Machine:
That is looking good! Eric |
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