Well I will be the devils advocate, and say careful study for modification is needed. Even following the original plans can be daunting and making changes can set up a real problem in the finished product. I'm not all that good with drawing things on the computer and was taught to do drafting drawings with paper and pencil so excuse my lack of knowledge! I have been following this group since it first started and built my original series of machines back before most had computers in their homes! Anyway I have seen or heard of many who started making the machines only to loose interest or get to a dead end due to making unthought out mod's. I usually encourage to stick with the original as close as possible then test run to see what mod's you think you want and remake those parts. Once the lathe is made then you have a machine to make the other machines more easily. Possibly the biggest road block is making good castings that don't take a lot of work to finish. And of coarse the scraping and trueing of surfaces to make an accurate machine. In my opinion most mod's are for those who want to really have a much larger machine and to try and do work like a machine shop in production rather than a hobby? If you look closely Dave Gingery designed machines of about the same size as what was made commercially for the home hobby shop and used scrap aluminum and other bits to achieve a way to build them with limited resources.
I will post some photos of my patterns later today and point out the ease of making!
Cheers Wonk
--- In gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com, Cole <coleston@...> wrote:
>
> Too me the choice seems very easy, well thought out modifications over 20
> years of open source development? YES PLEASE!
>
> vs original beta design... no thanks.
>
> I am definitely talking the community created plans, like with the thicker
> bed and other things I have seen you guys discuss.
>
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Rick Sparber <rgsparber@...> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Cole,
> >
> > I recently built the Gingery shaper and made about 60 modifications to the
> > original, 20 year old design. So which lathe plans are you talking about?
> >
> > If you go with the original design, you are ignoring all of the lessons
> > learned over the years. On the other hand, you will have a design that
> > works. It is not an easy choice.
> >
> >
> > Rick
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com
> > [mailto:gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Cole
> > Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 7:42 AM
> > To: gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: Re: [gingery_machines] Forge? Sand? Cope/Drag? Practice? Stock?
> > Tools? Tig? Everything? Check, Check, Check... Pattern Making?! Not so
> > much.
> >
> > Rick thanks for the kind words, no one has ever bothered to 3D model the
> > plans before? Seriously? If that's the case I'll upload them once I get
> > them
> > done.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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>
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