Thank god someone decided to get back to their abandoned projects so that we don't have to (3d printed ball mill looking at me sadly)

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

If one project gets done or gets some progress once in a while, we can forgive the 15 unfinished projects 🤣🤣

I'm super excited for this. I found your videos after I purchased the gingery books as a kind of "aspirational project" while I dealt with dialysis. Pretty soon I'll be doing that at home on my own schedule, so maybe it's time to finally give it a whirl!

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

Definitely! I keep seeing things I want to make but they all require a lathe lol

Yay! The Gingery lathe is what brought me to your channel in the first place. Glad to see it coming back. Perhaps you should christen this build "The Phoenix"...

There’s one Zamak Gingery build I watched a few years ago. The caution I learned is, Zamak is much more difficult to machine, which becomes important when trying to scrape a bed flat.

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

I've heard zamak can be a bearing material, so yeah hand scraping won't be fun at all If I give up I'll probably call a guy I know who offered me machining services lol

@johannesmajamaki2626

Жыл бұрын

any chance you could find that build?

Super cool to see this project back from the dead, I'll be fascinated by where it goes. The extremely low melting point of Zamak sounds like it's begging for a comically weird issue like swarf being hot enough to embed itself into parts but I have zero experience with anything like that. Still, it should be illuminating and entertaining either way :D

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

we will definitely find out!

Some people make concrete with an epoxy binder to fill their mini-lathes, I wonder if there's a good refractory concrete to use as cores for a full box, and just leave in place to add mass and damping. Even the closed section by itself should significantly improve the resistance to torsion.

Zamak is a great alloy. For the bed base you could also get a bar of solid cold rolled steel. Very little scraping would be needed but attaching the bed top would be somewhat harder than with aluminum. On the otherhand steel is easier to machine than za12.

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

Good point for sure. A solid steel bar would be pretty heavy though 🤣and I would be sad to lose an excuse to pour more metal

I originally came to your channel on that lathe project. Really looking forward to seeing you get back to that. Here's to your new relationship with rotometals!

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

Rotometals looks pretty awesome. Most metal suppliers won't sell to the little guy!

Zamac is great "It machines like a dream"! Here in France we have a lot of zinc covered roofs so it's easy to get the zinc, I've been a very happy camper casting my own ZA12!

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

That's great! I can buy zinc roofing sheets here but I don't think I've ever seen a roof covered in them. Some people here have painted steel roofs or rarely bare copper sheet roofs but they have problems in the winter. Heavy snow/Ice builds up, then breaks free and comes down destroying everything below lol. They have to put up extra things to hold/break up the ice and it ruins the look. Glad to hear ZA12 is working well for you, I'm gonna get a whole pile of the stuff!

I always wondered why Gingery chose aluminum scrap of unknown composition for his lathe, etc. Sand casting aluminum, for best results, requires alloys of a pretty specific composition. Zamac, to my brain, seems a better choice, it is used to produce so many different things. When my dad and I did scrap metal he hated "pot metal" couldn't get much for it, so by that logic token should be cheap to buy, too.

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

Zamak is very cheap yeah. When the book was published, lots of pot metal had lead impurities so it was probably best avoided. He did specify pot metal for a few pieces though, like the handles

@crichtonbruce4329

Жыл бұрын

I was a friend of Dave's, and he told told me about the history of all this. When he started he was quite poor. His trade was as a sheet metal worker for a big manufacturer but had been laid off and was working as a handyman. His goal was not to make a machine shop, but rather woodworking machines so he could build furniture for his home. At some point he decided to write and self publish books about his journey for the model engineering community, hence the series. His choice of aluminum scrap was because he could get it free from his job from broken aluminum storm doors (so his material was fairly consistent: extruded AL throughout). It's well to remember that his poverty required design and material compromises he might not have made otherwise, E.G.: a charcoal furnace rather than propane, bushings rather than ball bearings. He would have had no issue whatsoever with others modifying his designs, rather he would have encouraged it.

Yes!! I started making mine out of ZA8! I gotta get back to my project too. Make sure you polish yours too like I did.

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

Definitely. Shiny is better

I've been on a similar project as this for a while. 3d print patterns, beef stuff up, make it from ZL12. Only ZL12 is sold for pretty comically high prices, I got annoyed, and just bought 900kg from the foundry that produces the alloy. Been trying to get rid of the stuff since. Too bad you're all the way in the US, not sure shipping would be super feasible. If you want to exchange contacts, I've got quite a bit of experience with casting the stuff and then machining the castings/sawing/filing/etc. Loooots of stuff learned the hard way, to put it bluntly.

I truly am looking forward to watching you build this project I had had been planning on attempting similar lathe but kids and life has been occupying tinkering time

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

I know that feeling! I have 3 kids myself, lots of time spent with them while the initial lathe project languished in the garage haha. It was worth it though. I'll finish the lathe eventually, kids are only kids now

I'm with you, and with you on working in a small garage and trying to video it too 🤣

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

The space is nice but the climate control is even more important I think

@Bargle5

Жыл бұрын

@@PaulsGarage It is in mine. It has to get up to about the low 50s Fahrenheit before I can stand to work out there. Plus many glues won't set under 60 degrees.

Hey I remember the gingery lathe thing :D Built my own (different design) used it once and then bought one, that I havnt used yet, in the same time thats passed xD

Looking forward to seeing your videos. I finished my version of the Gingery lathe with the goal of staying as close to the book as possible. Still, even with that focus, there were things that diverged. Example: the split nut wore out so I changed that to a heavily modified coupling nut welded to a post. It’s a fun project I hope more people take it on.

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

That is awesome! I'm taking a separate approach, change anything I want lol

Nice! Curious to see how the melting and scaring the neighbors is in the new place. :)

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

So far I've done all the melting inside the garage! If I crack the garage door and open a side door I get enough of a draft that I don't even get smoke from the petrobond. The driveway is slanted a bit too much for comfort with a wheeled furnace

The projects that aren't urgent will take forever. I started on a boring machine in 1983 and still haven't finished it. Good Luck, Rick

I use roto metals too for my pewter casting great supplier!

Good luck, good luck. I'm currently stuck on scaping the clamp rails on the cross slide... been stuck there for 17 months myself...

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

You can do it! If I can restart after years there's still hope

Indeed I have been thinking about that gingery lathe project quite regularly and I am glad to hear it is returning! Sign off like Paul Kangas, "wishing you the best of good-byes."

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

Im glad to be back, I really need a lathe here

I was wondering about this a couple days ago, I came to the conclusion that you figured it wasn't worth the time and got a el-cheapo lathe lol, happy to see its alive and well, interesting metal for the casting. I suppose the important part for a lathe to be high hardness would be the ways, I forget if the design uses steel for the ways, but if not then maybe use some kind of bellows to protect the soft metal. Or use like scandanavian gold alloy which is super hard lol

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

Yeah the ways are steel. I already have the steel parts in a box here. Any wear surface is steel, and most of the knobs are supposed to be cast in pot metal anyway, so I'm just going all in with the tougher, shinier metal

Looking forward to the project 🔥🔥🔥

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

me too! gonna be fun

I got the Gingery collection book for Christmas. I'm thinking of holding onto some old brake rotors to use for this.

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

Brake rotors are cast iron usually, right? If you have the equipment to melt and cast iron, it will outperform zamak in every way for a lathe. Except of course in terms of shininess. Zamak can be polished and wont get surface rust 😉

See you next week! Same gingery time same gingery channel. Nanananana....Ginger Man!

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

I need a small ginger wig to put on the lathe headstock 🤣🤣 that way we match

Love to see you back!

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

Good to be back!

I remember watching all of these and other gingery lathe videos... I was thinking about doing it but then I randomly found and got a jet 1340 belt drive lathe (repair needed). I'll keep watching for other reasons, but my original motivation is gone. (now back to searching for a knee mill) Here is to celebrating someone returning to "regular" video posting after sporadic posting. So I asked ChatGPT to write you a "real amarican hero" award Announcer: Today, we celebrate a true KZread hero, the one and only sporadic poster turned regular uploader! Crowd: Hooray! Announcer: For three long years, this content creator left their loyal viewers in suspense, with no rhyme or reason to their sporadic posts. Crowd: Booo! Announcer: But now, they've returned to their roots, and are posting videos like clockwork. "regularly", without fail. Crowd: Yay! Announcer: They've overcome the obstacles of life, work, and all the other things that come with being a busy human being. And they've done it all for us, their loyal followers. Crowd: We love you! Announcer: So here's to you, dear KZreadr. You've shown us that no matter how hard things get, you can always come back and make the content that we love. Crowd: Thank you, thank you! Announcer: You are a true hero in our eyes. A hero of the KZread community. And for that, we raise a [drink of choice] to you! Crowd: Cheers!

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

Haha I love it!

Here in the UK it's called ZL12, 12% aluminium, 88% zinc. I have used it to make parts. Shiney and heavy. But if memory serves you once melted iron, yes? There aren't many youtubers making a lathe with an iron bed. And you can get iron almost anywhere, cheap.

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I can melt iron no problem, but casting it is a bit trickier. My sand isn't rated for those temps. I could make some, but my face didn't like the heat last time I melted iron. That stuff is insanely hot!

@lornablewettandlee504

Жыл бұрын

@@PaulsGarage I did watch an iron melt and pour a few years ago. 25kg of molten iron is hot hot hot! He used ordinary green sand with some coal dust for some reason. He also gave me a 25kg bag of the sand to try at home, so just run of the mill green sand.

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

Yeah cast iron sand uses coal dust, not sure why. I'm using petrobond which is an oil bonded sand designed for jewelry temperatures (silver/bronze/gold) and it starts to fall apart if the temperatures get up to iron temperature. Someday I'll try iron casting but I'll need different sand

@lornablewettandlee504

Жыл бұрын

@@PaulsGarage I gave up on casting for a while, I am making a model of my car instead, but when I do resume casting I want to give Petrobond a try. Or the UK equivalent. Petrobond and ZL12/zamak, that sounds like a quality casting. I am looking forward to seeing it.

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

Petrobond is really nice, except the burned parts needing to be separated and reconstituted with oil. The detail is so good if I use wood for a pattern, I can sometimes see the wood grain in the metal!

Looking good Paul, thanks for the update! This will be a fun trip

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

Hope so!

Starting up again...better lathe then never! I also have been reinvigorated to start making stuff again, maybe it's something in the air?

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

Maybe? Or all the caffeine in my coffee. Or just the extra space in my garage

Your new signoff should be "Well.... Bye"😂 Interested to see how the Zamak goes and how it holds up! Good luck on the gingerbread lathe 😄

@RFMongoose

Жыл бұрын

I also will be interested, chirpy recommended zamek to me as well, but life got in the way (also I have my heart set on iron.

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

Iron is awesome and all but the heat is so intense it nearly started my welding gloves on fire from a distance. Like imagine the weld puddle burning you through the gloves, but that puddle isn't the size of a rain drop, it's the size of a bottle of water. Yikes

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

Gingerbread lathe... There's gotta be some good jokes in there... I could cast a gingerbread man face in a part somewhere

@RFMongoose

Жыл бұрын

@@PaulsGarage you've probably seen it but there's an Australian guy here on KZread who uses a pouring dolly. His name is luckygen1001. The dolly should significantly reduce heat exposure. That and getting a 2 person crucible... Wrench?... Would help.

I have two lathes, but would still like to try an updated Gingery-esque CNC lathe. Will be watching.

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

Strap a raspberry pi to a gingery lathe?

@user-qy9rg3nt2l

Жыл бұрын

@@PaulsGarage GRBL controlled with linear rails and ballscrews. Epoxy granite filled base. It's been bouncing around inside my head for some time now. Even did some 3D printable pattern designs, but they need polished a bit.

Glad you're back! Love your sense of humor.

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

thank you! it's good to be back

fortuitous, I've been looking for your channel, I've got the Gingery books and I'm ready to get started.

Super excited about your Gingery reboot!

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

same here!

WOW. ... Shocked me !!!! Glad to see you !!!

holy crap I thought you looked different, looking good dude

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I also like bad ideas! Can wait to follow your journey Paul :)

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

You and me both!

its been a hot minute since iv seen your vids, last one i saw close to release was the kick pottery wheel. glad your still arround and im super keen to start following the lathe build. for the sign off i think you just need to be abrupt and awkward and just kinda end.

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

That was a while ago! Glad your back

"To the money pit!" or "It's not a hobby, it's a passion!" or "it's a mania!"

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

Haha I love calling the garage "the money pit"

Where have you been? My wife had surgery on her foot and I have been chained into the dungeon of my house….cooking, cleaning, washing clothes and all other domestic insanity. I need a gingery lathe builder to at least live vicariously through until I can get her back to work or in a nursing home or insane asylum 😅

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

I hope she's doing well! I'm sure I'll drag the project on long enough for us all to end up in the insane asylum!

Always enjoyed you videos, Looking forward to the new series.

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I was going to build a modified Gingery Lathe, but I've since decided on a different approach. I'm wondering if mine will go like my bandsaw build where I got all the parts and material only to have a very affordable one turn up on Craigslist. Wouldn't surprise me.

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

Haha that does tend to happen

I’m excited that your are getting back to the Gingery lathe. It’s cool that you are going to make it from zamac. Looking forward to seeing how it comes out.

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

I just hope it works in the end!

Is there a 3d printing filament that can rapidly melt and burn so it can be used like styrofoam is for casting? Im trying to get back into casting and was considering buying a 3d printer and was curious if that was an option in filaments. That'd be amazing to be able to 3d print what you want to cast with the sprue and voids all already connected. Just print and cover with sand

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure about that but the next video I'm doing is related to casting 3d prints so stay tuned for that. Also the only way I've seen PLA used like you mention with lost foam is by printing only a shell and using that in a plaster mold

@shawnwillis7561

Жыл бұрын

@@PaulsGarage I will stay tuned. Just subbed. I thought I already was. Wondered where you went.

It's here!!: kzread.info/dash/bejne/lGR_0qmtnsTfndI.html Want me to personally teach you how to use your 3D printer to learn sand casting? Click here: paulsmakeracademy.mykajabi.com/joinus

I'm modeling the Gingery lathe with freecad (and found errors on dimensions !!). Yeah !

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

That's great! Freecad is pretty awesome. I usually use fusion360 but I'm trying to learn blender. Looks like precision modelling in blender is possible but it's a major hassle

@IGBeTix-Electronique

Жыл бұрын

@@PaulsGarage Freecad is more dedicated for mechanichal and architecture. Blender is better for free modeling and organic modeling.

you could make some bearing parts of your lathe ...... out of bronze instead of Zamak if you wanted. One thing to consider even if you have rigidity from better castings (but using Zamak) ....... you kinda need HEFT ..... you need some weight to it. Or maybe plenty of mounting allowances will be enough. /shrug

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

I'm sure it'll be pretty hefty. I'm going to beef up the patterns too

Hmm, exotic alloys! Good luck

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I don't know how exotic zamak is but it's new to me!

excellent

Wow, it's only been 4 years haha Hope you post the next videos soon :) The sucky stuff is the good stuff! xD I'm very excited to see how this zamac stuff behaves for this application

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

me too, it should be fun!

IT’S BACK AND BETTER THAN EVER WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Actually not a bad idea. I've been thinking of doing a zinc gingery lathe too! Just can't seem to find a supplier close to me.

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

I gotta order the stuff too, rotometals to the rescue

Sign off: *in the portal voice* "Are you still there?"

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

The cake is still a lie

it's not LAZYNESS... it's efficiency. Just saying... just saying. It's a journey and not a destination. Enjoy the journey.

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

They say you can find the most efficient way of doing a job by assigning the laziest person to the task!

Been waiting for this. Love your content man. Keep it up

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Will do!

Sorry, no help on the closing line. On the bed pattern, add some fillets if you haven't. I had briefly considered making that lathe but realized that it would take me forever to get it done and I wanted to have something to use sooner than that. I like casting zinc alloys. Lower temperature. Because of the density it reproduces the sand grains more. As you move closer to the top of the cope the pressure is lower so the graininess progressively decreases. Thinking of the bed pattern I wonder if a chill might be useful for the top of the bed (placed bed side down in the mold). A thick piece of steel to provide a flat surface, so there could be less machining, and would provide directional solidification. If it froze first then there would not be any shrinkage near that surface. Of course this complicates things and there is not guarantee it could work out on the first shot.

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

Cool idea about chilling the top. I'm probably not going to use Gingery's gating method for sure

Yay!

Hey Paul! I'm so behind on my viewing and just getting to this video. I'm really looking forward to this series! BTW, if someone hasn't mentioned this already, Atlas lathe gears are made of Zamak.

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

Hello sir! I'm looking forward to it too. It will be nice to have a goal that requires a bunch more metal casting. I had no idea atlas lathe gears used zamak. it makes a bit of sense because zamak is somewhat of a bearing material, probably better than steel

yay i have been waiting 4 years for this

I miss Makercise 😳 nice seeing someone else carry on with the Gingery books

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

Yeah me too, I hope he's doing ok. He was building a brewery or something. I kinda wanted to see how the mill went together

@julias-shed

Жыл бұрын

@@PaulsGarage didn't they buy a derelict property? I guess they are busy with that...

Super stoked for this

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

Me too!

Nice to see you back at the Gingery lathe! FWIW, "GHEENG-guh-ree". Hard Gs.

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad to be back! I'm a ginger so I'm sticking to it right or no lol

The sign off could be “And now cast away“

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

Hey that's pretty good

Paul - Any issues with using the same crucible with the new alloy? I've heard some metals can be weakened by residual crud left from previous melts.

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

It's always a good idea to use a crucible dedicated to each metal. The biggest contamination risk with this alloy is lead. Any lead and its doomed. Not saying other metals are full of lead, but they are more careful to keep lead out of this than they are for, say, plumbing copper or cast aluminum.

Great to see you back on this!! IIRC Zamac has a tensile strength close to cast iron.

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

It's pretty good stuff. I picked it mostly for vibration dampening. I remember makercise having issues with chatter and I hope this helps

Closing line … hmm … “Dont steal my bad ideas, tend to your own overgrown bad ideas garden” or something to tht theme… lol

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

Haha I like it

The voids in the metal could also be filled with epoxy granite.

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

I've read zamak can have voids, I wonder how often I'll run into that problem

Zamak chips easily and is soft. So what is your plan for repeatedly moving the cross slide on it without immediate wear damage making impossible to cut with precision on your lathe? Would it not be a better idea to invest your time with your welder and make a steel bed with enough meat on it that you can grind it down to a flat surface within tolerance? Once the time is invested you then have a lathe that will be somewhat functional. Another option that might for the same investment of time come out with a more workable product is to buy or find an old scrapped lathe and bring it back to life? Plus, you can enjoy the fine art of scraping, a deep learning process for sure. Having lived many decades in the marine world I am familiar with Zamak and its downside. I just don't think you are going to come out with anything useable when it is the base metal. Every bit of steel swarf will scratch and dig in to it as you work. Might as well build it out of wood. Of course, it is your cow. Treat it as you like.

@PaulsGarage

11 ай бұрын

The design uses a steel plate that bolts on top as the ways. Zamak wouldn't work for long that's for sure

I kinda like "Get lost" as a sign off, I always get lost on the projects I start, so it seems fitting

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

Video opener: "Greeting friends!". Video sign off: "Get lost, jerks!"

I loved the old series and I'm super pumped for the new one! =D

@PaulsGarage

7 ай бұрын

Thanks! i'm excited too!

You tend to get lost in rabbit holes. Maybe the signoff should be something that reminds us to come back up for air lol.

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

Getting lost in a rabbit hole is literally what I'm doing right now 🤣🤣

Have you considered using foam patterns for your pours? Could save some headaches with cavities, draft angles, etc.

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

If thought about it. Makercise used a bunch of lost foam cast parts but I'm not a big fan of the surface finish you get from that. He also had some issues with parts warping when making the molds.

You want Solid? Pour some cement. Cheap, heavy, and easy.

Woohoo!

I remember this series. Woah.

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

It's been a while!

@Argosh

Жыл бұрын

@@PaulsGarage if memory serves it was the reason I subscribed originally. I fanboyed over Gingery anything at the time. But I gotta say even without that I like your stuff, and now you return to it? Oh boy! 😁

YAY! Sign offs... Slap you leg and say welp guess we better get going. That's a Wisconsin staple right there.

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

Good idea! I could also eat a brick of cheese during the video. I have several in my fridge (not joking lol)

@marinemtrt

Жыл бұрын

​@@PaulsGarage cheese curds? Also charlie berens comedy sums up life in the tri state area

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

@@marinemtrt I just ran out of cheese curds but I still have some sharp cheddar bricks. Vern's cheese and Reynard's cheese 👍

I think zinc fumes are pretty nasty, be careful with that Zamak stuff! I'm very happy to see you back

@kfoltman

Жыл бұрын

It's really not too bad if you don't go and overheat the alloy by a lot. I've done it a few times and had no issues.

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Will do! I'll be keeping the temperatures pretty low and I'll have plenty of ventilation

@askquestionstrythings

Жыл бұрын

Brass is way more dangerous with Zinc fumes than zinc alloys due to the higher temperature involved. Brass is hot enough to be well above the vaporization temperature for Zinc so the zinc is boiling off when you melt brass. Zinc alloys are relatively safe as they have a very low vapor pressure when melted (plenty of ventilation and avoiding overheating is advisable)

might want to keep youre eyes open for a used lathe , it will be a lot faster to fix up and will probably work better than the gingery lathe as its made tougher and out of actual cast iron with hardened ways that whont wear out and all that buying a ready made milling machine youreself or know someone that has one and is willing to do the work for you on the gingery lathe parts that would make the gingery lathe work a lot better and get it straight as an arrow (eazier to make dovetaile ways and machine the castings flat and straight and well you get the meaning ) havent seen you do a lot of machining , you done sheetmetal work some carpentry and a lot of casting and pottery , might want to think of wat projects you want to do with the finished lathe , that would allso show you if the lathe is big enough to clamp the work piece in (you can make parts for youre beadroller in it but you cannot resurface the brake rotors from one of youre cars or resurface a cluchplate / flywheel as there too large in circumference for instance ) btw to make the lathe stronger you could allso bolt it down using a lot of bots along the length on a big I beam , that would allso alow you to slingthly tweak out casting errors like twisting or bending not having a lot of right to speak about using the tools you have or stalled projects that way as i have an allmost complete machine shop sitting in a room of my apartment for about 5 years now still waiting on me to finish it / machine the first part , im not intoo making steam engines or hobby project like that as it would only end up cluttering my home more than it allready is , i did however changed my milling machine , bandsaw and drillpress for a bigger one to have the height and reach to be able to make tools for and do work on small engine blocks i still like to have a lathe with a bigger swing over the bed to be able to machine said brakedisks , but recently seen other ways to do that that involves making a casting and........ heared an expression a while back "jak shaving" its basicly needing a tool to build a tool to build a tool etc you start a project then you need sumting to do a certain job but to make that tool you need etc and you end up with a shop filled with tools you rarely need after making the innitial tool you wanted to make with it and no room to turn around in the wokshop , might need to specialize a little intoo a single style of diy wood (sheet)metal clay or mecanics

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

All good points. I have a guy locally with a machine shop who offered to help me out, but for me doing the project is the point itself. The gingery lathe is kinda small yeah but anything bigger I'll probably outsource anyway. And a tool to make a tool to make a tool sounds like endless video content to me! I'm mostly just trying to tinker around and have fun, not working toward a specific goal of process exactly.

A machinist friend of mine refers to the Gingery books as, "How to waste your life building inferior machine tools." Haven't seen anything on KZread to convince me he's wrong.

🙋‍♂️

Lathe!

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

:lathe:

Bring back the scrolling text outro! Especially the witticism(?) at the end.

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

Lol those were fun but the analytics says nobody watched it haha

@dfross87

Жыл бұрын

@@PaulsGarage I always watched it. Don't I count 😛?

Can’t wait to see this get under way. And what are the chances you buy a small lathe after it’s all done anyway? Lol

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

i can't rule that out haha! After building those pottery wheels i ended up buying one, same might happen here. But i'm not going to let myself buy a lathe until this one is done lol

Ah, Zamak! Good….

Next up is another opening trowel!

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

Another one? I still have the first one!

@clappercl

Жыл бұрын

@@PaulsGarage Sounds made up; prove it! 😁

@dfross87

Жыл бұрын

@@PaulsGarage Did it turn up when you moved? Last I remember of the unboxing trowel, it was....mislaid.

I raised my hand..

FWIW, both 'g's in Gingery are pronounced hard, as in 'get'.

The whole reason I started watching you lol.

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

Lol well I'm glad you stuck around!

If we didn't like bad ideas, we wouldn't be here :)

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

I have plenty of them saved up too

I wish I had a lathe made of hot wheels!

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

It'll need a sweet paint job

Looks like you've finally settled on how to pronounce it as well. 😉

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

I'll just pick one and stick with it. If I act confident enough nobody will question it haha

Sign off?? “I am the lathe master 2000!” ? 😂

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

i think it might be a *bit* of a stretch to call myself an anything master lol

I'm still here!

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sticking around!

To be honest.... If Gingery is back so am I !!!

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

I'm happy to get going on it again!

" Say Goodnight Gracie" not many will get it.

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

i gotta admit, I don't get it lol

@mikemcdonough1793

Жыл бұрын

@@PaulsGarage Its from George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, he always told at the end of the show to "Say Goodnight Gracie."

@mikemcdonough1793

Жыл бұрын

@@PaulsGarage kzread.info/dash/bejne/o3xhupmmaM7Nc7w.html

Bis zum nächsten mal! Until next time! but just randomly change the language up.

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

Good idea!

Imho that's just not going to work, how will this metal react to hot metal chips falling on it when or if You are going to turn metal on the leathe?

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

Metal chips don't have much thermal mass, so they will be hot but not near enough to damage zamak. The shavings will most likely land on the steel plate bolted to the bed anyway, no worries

I have been watching te gyngery lathe for a long Time be te force be with you AND reach te milling machine

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

Hopefully I will! It would be nice to get through the tools and stuff in book 5 too

Seems like every few years I restart all my old projects, or tear them waaaaay back because I find new methods, or buy new tools, or just suck less.

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

I know that feeling. It's almost a good idea to procrastinate a bit and try again after gaining a few more skills lol

@strangeblacksmith

Жыл бұрын

@@PaulsGarage speaking of which, do you still have your van? (I'm Crackers on GRM.)

@PaulsGarage

Жыл бұрын

@@strangeblacksmith yes indeed! In fact a week ago I reorganized the garage so I could get to the drivers side again. No idea if that is enough to get me working on that again but maybe.