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Hello MadModders, caster, lathe and turbine builder, etc. from Vermont

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AdeV:
Hi VTSteam, looking forward to seeing some of those projects, both completed and in-progress  :poke: Looks to me like you're already doing pretty much all the stuff I want to do, but don't seem to get the time to do... casting is on my list, I also have a Lister diesel (sitting idle at the moment)

Welcome to Madmodders! It's a great forum, but it's cost my workplace hundreds of hours of time  :lol:

Meldonmech:
Hi vtsteam,
                  Welcome to the forum, great patterns and lathe. How long did it take to build the lathe.
                             
                                                           Well Done    David

PekkaNF:
Hello and welcome!

You have made some nice work.

Any chance of a pictures of your Gingery lathe/mill in different setups? I bought the books long time ago and considered giving it a go, but then I got more work than time and tradeoff was to buy a lathe. I liked the approach of using the machine itself to make parts to the machine. I see that you have taken that approach and modularity to next level.

Pekka

vtsteam:
Thank you meldonmech and PekkaNF.

Okay, I'll start a thread detailing some of the lathe construction and the accessories and how I made things, since you guys are interested. Guess I'll do it in the Projects section.

Thanks for all the encouragement on this site. I was once told on another site that Gingery lathes weren't good for anything other than teaching the basics. For a moment I felt embarrassed. But that was just wrong. I disagree about both the lack of usefulness of the lathe and the playing down of the "basics."

The basics are the building blocks on which you can do anything. You can turn a Gingery lathe into anything you want it to be, because you learned how to do that. Build a machine form nothing. If you are dissatisfied with any part of it, you can use it to make that part of the machine better, stronger, heavier, more precise, whatever it is you want. You know how to cast, file, scrape, lay out, punch, drill, bore, turn, mill, grind, harden, temper, thread, and make tooling, as well as knowing one more thing. That you can do anything you want with almost nothing. From scrap and a desire to do what you envision.

It isn't just a lathe you get out of it. It's your lathe, and it will do anything you want it to do, because you can make it anything you want it to be.

vtsteam:
Wow, it's been awhile -- just seemed like this would be the best place to say hello to old friends after about a 5 month break from shop work!  :wave: :wave: :wave: It was a long cold winter -- and no heat in the shop kept me away.

Anyway we are all thawed out -- daffodils bloomed and mowed my lawn for the first time a couple days ago. Pulled winter storage items out of the shop to be able to get in there again, and started work on my Ford 850 tractor project under cover outdoors -- put off for a couple years. Pulled the head, and found a blown head gasket. Head needs to be surfaced before I put it back together, so It's time to use the mill again. One thing leads to another, and all roads lead to Madmodder.

It's weird -- I kind of feel like I'm starting all over again, man I sure do forget things more quickly these days! -- I was just doing a search here on MM to see if I actually did build that big fly cutter I thought I had, or not! :wack: I had a picture of it in my mind but darned if I can actually find it in my mill tooling drawers. Was it project for the future or did I build it?  :scratch: ahhhh nevermind I guess I have a new project now!  :lol:

Anyway,  just wanted to say hello again, and sorry I was quiet/absent for so long.

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