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vtsteam:
Here it is turned to shape:

vtsteam:
And then, using the "Gingery way" I removed the lathe arbor (easy) and substituted for it the new milling spindle in the headstock, with a bronze thrust bearing, and reattached the lathe pulleys.

I could now drill it and bore it perfectly centered in the lathe headstock, running in the bearings, in exactly the position it would have when acting as a milling spindle.

vtsteam:
Withe the arbor ready, next step was making a pattern for a boring table and casting that. The design was somewhat like the Gingery lathe slides, though quite a bit heavier and longer. The tang is buried in the sand here already, so not visible.

vtsteam:
As I mentioned, I had to cast this one twice. But finally got a good pour.

vtsteam:
Adding the boring table to the lathe was straightforward, file and scrape ways, add gib and gib screws, and it was attached. But still a rough casting. Now I needed to mill it flat. Of course I didn't have a mill yet. Or even a milling attachment, naturally, since that was what I was building!

So I decided to make a fly cutter that I could attach to an arbor between centers to do the surface milling on the lathe. It needed to be fairly wide in diameter to reach the milling table, and I wanted to use a lathe tool in it to do the cutting.

I made up a pattern of the right dimensions, and used a piece of 1/4" square keystock as a ruling guide, and later, a piece of it as a core in the pattern.

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