Hey guys,

I am going to use this thread to chronicle my Gingery inspired lathe.

Initially it was going to be a pure gingery lathe.

After doing more research, I was inspired to deviate a bit from the original plans.

I felt that I could do this a smarter and easier way.

I am copying this guy's concept for the bed (using steel tubing for the bed): Lathe

I am taking that a step further. My source of aluminum was a scrapped aluminum block Trans-AM engine from the mid 90s.

It appears that the steel (or cast iron?) Crankshaft supports are the same width as my tubes, which together equal the width of a cast gingery bed.

If anyone has any ideas for how I could recycle my Cast Iron crankshaft to fabricate parts I am all ears. I also still have some of the steel piston heads. The rods are mostly bent I believe. This was from a blown engine.