Gingery Lathe - Metal Sand Casting

[Andy Brockway]

For those who are not familiar with the Gingery series of metal working machines....

They are very robust. Dave Gingery and his son provide step by step procedures to build the machines and use the same processes that were used to build lathes at the turn of the century including hand scraping the ways, a dieing art. Castings are used for the major parts with stock material used for the ways and shafts. It is not a quick process but anyone that completes a machine will know what it takes to rebuild other machines.

Many techniques that they teach are perfect for FIRST. I have used several to teach my students how to make parts using a drill press and hand tools.