The best advice is buy the book if you haven't already, read and follow the way Gingery did the original. You can build any or all of the parts the way you want but making true surfaces by scraping is the only way to make an accurate machine - of coarse this assumes you don't have access to a mill! Scraping is not the killer for these machines, no matter what you have heard others say! You need to work the surface with files, sandpaper, etc to make it as true as possible before scraping or you will be scraping for a long time. There reaaly are no short cuts you can take and it takes a steady hand and patience!
Good Luck!
Cheers Wonk
--- In gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com, "james" <james122964@...> wrote:
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> I am starting the gingery lathe, but, think that I would want to do a
> deviation. I am thinking of using a I beam for the bed and wanted to know do I need to have the bed and ways scraped beore making the patterns for head stock and carriage? seems to me the casting would be needing so much work that I could just fit everthing up, then do the casting and scraping.
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> any and all advice is needed and appreciated.
>
> thanks
> jim
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