Nice to hear from you. I just wish all my mail rules worked!!!
As to lathe building it is certainly a noble effort but on the other hand clock makers lathes are always showing up at auctions and such. Just thought I'd point that out!
In any event if you are like many on this list that won't stop you from building something yourself. Besides learning to cast metal can be very useful in clock construction especially if you are interested in larger units. I do have a question in my mind as to the lathes design being suitable for clock making. That you will have to judge yourself and frankly it doesn't matter as you can modify the design to suit your needs. The thing is antique clocks can cover a very wide territory of devices from tiny desktop units to big drives for clock towers, so not knowing your interest I can't say if the lathe is right for you.
In any event there are a huge number of Web sights with info on Gingery lathe builds. Google "Gingery Lathe". Many of these sights go about documenting how they deal with the weaker points associated wit the Gingery Lathe. In this regards I'd suggest that you want to look at a stronger bed design.
Along this line of thinking some people consider the Gingery Mill to be an improved lathe. While I can't support that 100% it does have some features that make it useful for clock making. Specifically turning larger diameter parts.
Dave
On Mar 31, 2011, at 12:41 PM000, bagrepulsor wrote:
> Just a fast introduction.
>
> My name is Jeff Wood, I work on antique clocks. I'm interested in building a lathe to use to further my clock repair work, and also in making custom e-cigarettes.
>
> And I must admit, I'm posting an intro message so I can craft a mail-rule for my email program ;-)
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
>
>
>
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gingery_machines/app/peoplemap/view/map
No comments:
Post a Comment