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.