Subject: Re: Learn something new every project

From: [email-masked] (Fitch R. Williams)
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 08:26:48 GMT

Steve Hardy <[email-masked]> wrote:

<SNIP>

>You learn a whole bunch of things:  in this project the following
>spring to mind:

>	How to solder stainless steel

>	How to bend plastic using a heat gun

>	How to adjust the lathe headstock alignment

>	How to machine the cross-slide dovetail with a shaper

>	How to use the travelling steady to machine a long thin
>	shaft, perfectly balanced and concentric.

>	How to gracefully maneuver large shaper vices in mid-air.

<SNIP>

Reading this I learned that the old law, before you can do
anything, you must first do something else, isn't limited to
my shop, or even this continent.  <grin>

<SNIP>

>Anyhow, I digress from the praise of the shaper.  It is a truly
>wonderful machine but it does require you to check seventy times
>seven times before THE LEVER is pulled.

Even on a small one with a vise that only weighs maybe 10
pounds.  But they will get things flat.  And they can cut
keyways inside holes, and ...

Fitch

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From: [email-masked] (Bill)
Date: 5 Dec 1996 23:50:59 GMT

Paul Pierce <[email-masked]> wrote:

Offering castings for Dave Gingery's projects.  

Lathe castings        $175
with ground flats     $250

Shaper castings       $175
with ground flats     $250

Mill castings         $175
with ground flats     $250

Drill Press castings  $175

Saw a Gingery type shaper in May-powered by a hit-n-miss engine-at a
show in
Jerome AZ.  It sure made chips fly.

Can you get them cast iron, or are they  aluminum like in his books ?

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From: Paul Pierce <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 20:12:21 -0700

PyroWare wrote:
> ......
> I'd love to find and restore an old shaper, preferably one with gobs of
> cast iron that I can paint, big bronze bearings, and other heavy/old, but
> very solid construction aspects.....

Why not get one of Gingery's books (or all of them) from Lindsay and
make
a shaper?  If casting is inconvenient there is at least one source of
readymade castings.

-- 
Paul in AJ AZ  NRA Endowment Member

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Lathe castings        $175
with ground flats     $250

Shaper castings       $175
with ground flats     $250

Mill castings         $175
with ground flats     $250

Saw a Gingery type shaper in May-powered by a hit-n-miss engine-at a show in
Jerome AZ.  It sure made chips fly.

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