Wonk,
How do you bust them up?
Dick
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From: "Wonk" <tiwonk@yahoo.com>
To: <gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2010 10:37 AM
Subject: [gingery_machines] Re: Weight of metal?
> Dave Gingery didn't add a parts / materials list to his books because he
> wanted you to do the math as you went and gather as much scrap as
> possible. Remember when the books were written it was harder to find some
> items and easier to find others. You will soom find out now matter how
> hard you plan ahead you will never be able to be exact in your figures. I
> would recommend on getting started on making castings as Dave outlined
> them then finsih each part as you go. This will help you get everything to
> fit and work as designed. Dave teaches us to be patient and to work as
> accurate as we can during the build. Some scrap aluminum will yeild more
> usable metal than others due to the amount of dross and crud it gives off.
> I like car wheels (A-356 alloy) and as I remember it took about 4 wheels
> per machine?
>
> Wonk
>
> --- In gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com, "george0135" <georgew@...> wrote:
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>> I am hoping to make a start on building the machines from Dave's books
>> and a though occurs to me , what weight/amount of metal is needed to make
>> each machine , i dont recall it being mentioned in any of the books
>>
>> anyone got the answer?
>>
>> mtia
>> George
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