quick61 wrote:I know what you mean about wanting to machine it someday. For the last few years now I'v been wanting to build a Gingery Lathe. I have done a few models of the patterns to be CNC cut and the smaler pieces to be 3D printed in PLA for investment casting, but that's as far as I'v gotten. No foundry, no green sand...
I read the Gingery series of about 7 paperback books about how to build your own shop equipment, starting with (I think) a charcoal foundry. I've been wanting to do some of that stuff ever since then too. Especially the charcoal foundry ... I'd get a certain amount of enjoyment seeing the look on the face of that pesky old neighbor lady from down the street as she drives by real slow and sees my charcoal foundry in the driveway ablaze and spewing up huge smoke and flames. Either that or lighting up a Tesla coil in the front yard and hearing her dog start barking.
A company named Lindsay Publications used to sell those and other books I found interesting but I think they've gone out of business.
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I couldn't get the chamfers at the bottom of the upper platform support holes right:
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So I changed the model so that the holes have flat bottoms even though that's not how they'd be if they were drilled...
