Scott,
Congratulations!
http://canteenbooks.com/The_Lincoln_Inaugural_Train.htm
Rick
rick.sparber.org
On Sep 10, 2011, at 11:30 AM, Scott Trostel <blwloco@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Perhaps a decent machinist. Just for your amusement, I was in the welding products business for eleven years, sold to the railcar, ship building and bridge building industry, wrote a book 28 years ago about welded railcar construction, which was a fascinating industry. Then quit the business and went home to become a micro circuit repair technician and started writing history books as a hobby. That was 40 titles ago. Now I write full time, haven't touched a circuit board in 12 years and I fool around in my garage/shop. Gingery is a good distraction when I get writer's block, and now that I have the lathe, I can make some things over to the way I think they should have been to start with. A photo of my modified Gingery tool holder is in the photos section of this group. I wanted something that I could more easily adjust the angle ff the cutting tool. I want to do the drill press, but there are some changes I want to design in for my use,
> just haven't had the time to get started with the patterns -- new books keep me on the road quite a bit and had a new title to come out yesterday, so I start on the road this Wednesday with book signings. Its a book about Abraham Lincoln's journey to Washington, D.C. in 1861.
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> From: largrin <LarGrin@aol.com>
> To: gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 8:44 AM
> Subject: [gingery_machines] Re: Why I built the Gingery Lathe
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> Scott, what a great story. Thanks for sharing it. I am glad you found your own road back.
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> You say you will never be a skilled machinist. Don't bet on it. There is not a machinist on this earth that was born knowing how to perform this craft.
> Every one of us started as you did. We found our interest, then we learned our trade one day, one process, and one project at a time.
> When I retired 10 years ago, I had spent my entire employment life working in a machine shop. But since I finally had the time, it was time for me to take on the Gingery methods. I already have a small shop, so I decided to build the shaper. The rest is history.
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> Point is, you never stop learning. I am betting with your attitude, you will become a decent, and maybe a great machinist.
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> Larry in WV
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> --- In gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com, "blwloco" <blwloco@...> wrote:
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>> After a very tragic family even and a period of time to get my focus back, I was looking at an ad on the internet for Gingery's foundry book. It was a good read, entertaining, educational and thought provoking. The woodworking shop had sat idle for about four years. I had no motivation to even go outand turn on a switch for a power saw. After reading the foundry book I bought the lathe book and studied it carefully, this was a major turning point for me. I wanted a small metal lathe -- didn't need one. I made my version of a furnace to melt some aluminum and one evening after a cook out, I tossed the charcoal into the furnace, borrowed the wife's sweeper to use as a blower and melted a soup can (steel can) of aluminum and poured an ingot. This was great stuff and I had to do more, so I made patterns for the handles, squeezed some sand and poured my first pieces for the lathe. Over the next five months I built all the initial patterns and
> started pouring some castings. I usually only worked 15 or 20 minutes but did something every day. Some days all I made was the glue-up of two boards or the sanding of a side or two, but it was the break-out from a terrible funk. A friend who owns a foundry heard I was "back" and so he offered for me to come to his plant and we'd pour the balance of the casting, which we did, and I got lots of tips and tricks. I quickly gained all the parts for the lathe. I kept the pace going and eventually got up to about two hours every day. By early July the lathe bed was assembled and the headstock was in place so the lathe was about to start building itself. I raided a washer motor and control unit for power, added a another step down pulley for two speed tool feed operation and even poured a few of the pulley castings. By the end of September the lathe was finished and my weekends were almost entirely devoted to building the lathe. There was no looking
> back. It was fun and in that time I had regained my focus. So I turned a few simple steel parts and things that had needed repair were getting attention. I saw things I wanted to change on the lathe, so built new patterns and made those changes, the bases were raised to double their height and the head base was lengthened. I added a sliding base for a tool rest to use the lathe for wood turning with hand-held tools, and added a modified face plate with claws to hold the wood. I've started the shaper and the dividing head is mostly done. I want to cut small gears on the lathe so it has lead to the design of a tool to hold the gear and work with the dividing head. I will never be a skilled machinist, but against all odds and thanks to David Gingery I have learned many skills and a little about myself.
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>> Thank you to the late David Gingery you have no idea how much you helped and how much joy your projects have brought to me.
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>> Scott Trostel
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