>
>
> 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
>
Thanks Wonk, I look forward to seeing what you've come up with
> --- 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.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>
>
>
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