That is a motor mounting plate that I cast but had some imperfections so I added some of my elmers wood filler to smooth out and now ready for casting again or maybe just paint to hide the oops like they do at the car body shop!
Wonk
--- In gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com, Cole <coleston@...> wrote:
>
> wow, saw this picture:
> http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/2457175/hr/489308626/name/IMG_1138.jpg
> you are getting some amazing results! That piece came out gorgeous
>
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Wonk <tiwonk@...> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > By all means make things to "your liking"! I just wanted to point out my
> > observation that I have seen so many start out making mod's, drawings, and
> > other than wood patterns that never got finished due to all the complex
> > stuff! Probably the hardest part of making a machine is accurate patterns,
> > scraping and trueing surfaces and such.
> > I just posted some photos of a few shaper patterns and materials I used to
> > build them. I believe it took me about 4 hours to build these start to
> > finish? and about a week of part time work to build the complete shaper set!
> >
> > <
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gingery_machines/photos/album/1353921655/pic/992327701/view?picmode=large&mode=tn&order=ordinal&start=21&dir=asc
> > >
> >
> > Casting in iron is great once you work out the bugs of doing it at home by
> > yourself, but Gingery machines work very well as light duty hobby machines a
> > described in his books!
> >
> > Cheers Wonk
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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