Does your helicopter need any aluminium castings? Mind you, it is one thing making castings for a lathe but quite another making them for something that your life depends on! Personally I prefer fixed wing, not so noisy.
Norman
--- In gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com, GREGORY WATKINS <banker_776@...> wrote:
>
> The gingery machines are a lot of fun and it opens up a hole world of
> tinkering..I will all ways keep playing with sand casting from what I
> learned from gingery..my projects are temp on hold because I'm building a
> mosquito ultra light helicopter project but when its done I'm going to get
> back to my gingery projects..
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>
> -------Original Message-------
>
> From: RG Sparber
> Date: 04/23/11 19:20:19
> To: gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [gingery_machines] Hi
>
>
> Welcome aboard!
>
> You certainly have had an amazing life. What is a D & T teacher anyway?
>
> Some people have used epoxy to join castings together. As long as you first
> machine in pins to give alignment, it sounds like an interesting alternative
> to fasteners.
>
> Do you have any plans to make the shaper? I've only made the drill press and
> shaper. Yes, great fun.
>
> As for the "experts", no need to be concerned. They helped me out a lot
> while I was making my shaper. Great bunch of guys. Just be prepared for 3
> opinions for every 2 experts ;-)
>
> Rick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of normanv
> Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2011 12:14 PM
> To: gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [gingery_machines] Hi
>
> Hello everybody, I have rejoined this group after a gap of around 4 years. I
> am intimidated by all you experts.
> I started building a Gingery lathe when I lived in Africa and found that it
> was very cheap to get castings made at a foundry in Nairobi. I built most of
> a lathe using iron castings machined at a local Don Bosco training school.
> I had to leave and donated the almost completed lathe to the said Don Bosco
> school, so hopefully they have completed it and the students have learnt
> from it.
> Now I live in the Falkland Islands and have decided to start again. This
> time there is no convenient local foundry so I have to do it all myself. I
> built the Gingery furnace, fire cement is only available in small tubs of
> ready mixed cement. If I had used that it would have cost £200 to build it.
> Instead I managed to obtain a load of fire bricks and broke them up and
> seived them down into small pieces that I mixed with 4 tubs of fire cement
> that cost only £30.
> It has proved to be completely successful.
> I have made around 20 castings using peat as fuel. I have a pile of it in my
> garage that was there when I arrived. I've scrounged old aluminium wheels
> from a local garage so it is basically free except for the electricity for
> the old hair drier that my daughter had to use today for her hair and would
> not stop complaining about the smell of smoke. There is no pleasing some
> people, if she could only understand the pleasure I get from this.
> I have so far cast the bed and feet and am working on the cross slide. I am
> a D&T teacher and found, in the school workshop, two sheets of 1/4" thick
> brass 4' x 6' that I am using instead of the steel that Gingery suggests for
> the ways. I am working on the cross slide at the moment. Obtaining supplies
> is a problem, nobody had 6mm screws in stock (or 1/4") so I have had to
> order them by post, it will take at least 3 weeks for them to arrive. I will
> just have to get on making the castings whilst I am waiting. I have not had
> so much fun since...............I don't know, maybe when I discovered sex.
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