Barstock has it's advantages, and disadvantages, too. Whatever is easier to get, and fits within your budget is the way to go. Fasteners can get to be expensive if you're bolting up barstock in to complex shapes, but with a lathe, and lots of time and little money, you could even make all you need of them. THERE IS NO ONE RIGHT WAY!
Unless you're in the military, of course. Then it depends on branch of service. ;)
Bill in OKC
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> --- In gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com, "oldstudentmsgt" <wmrmeyers@> wrote:
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> > The largest I've seen pictures of was 1.8x or 2x the size Dave wrote up. Though I do think it was a shaper, not a mill. Doesn't mean you couldn't make one ten times larger, but if you've got the foundry capacity for that, there are other, better, things to do with it. ;)
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> > If you've the capability to pour iron, that would be a really good upgrade to a Gingery anything, but Zamac would be a good choice, too. Nearly as strong as iron, and a third the weight, IIRC my reading, and it melts near aluminum temperatures. Lower, at least a bit, IIRC.
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> > I have a 7x10 HF mini-lathe, bought as a foundational machine for my metalworking shop, and picked up an Atlas MF table-top horizontal mill a few months later. With those and a foundry capability, I don't suppose there is any limit on how much larger a machine I could make. I doubt you have even the limitations I've got, as I've seen some of what you've already done! ;)
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> >Hi Bill
> i kind of favor bar stock, the size is going to be limited by how
> big a piece I can get,or pick up bymyself
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> Keith
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> > > Hello group
> > > how large could you make a a ginery mill?
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> > > Keith
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