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On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:27 AM, normanv <ongata_rongai@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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..
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -------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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>
>
>
--
Nick A
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